Wednesday 27 January 2010

Library Day in the Life - Day 2

Arrived at work at 9am. Spent most of the morning on the Circulation Desk. Started by doing my routine tasks - statistics and journals - then moved onto keywords tidy up task (inbetween serving students, dealing with enquiries and dealing with problems with the printer). I believed I'd completed the As yesterday but hadn't. Made a list of the keywords beginning with numbers then started amending the Bs. Sorting out the entire catalogue is going to take a lot longer than I originally thought! Off the counter at 11.30 so visited study centres to drop new journals off and tidy up a bit.

Lunch at 12.

Spent most of the afternoon on the Circ Desk. Decided to spend some time working on a task for our Student Assistants. We want to label fiction books with stickers indicating their genre (romance, crime, science fiction etc) to help users choose fiction books. So have spent the afternoon playing with the flagging and advanced search functions to print off lists of books of each genre and adding keywords to items (such as adding 'Romance' to books that already have the keyword 'Love' so that the all come up as one set).

In the evening watching the film Milk, it was really good. Had an early night as we've got a lot on tomorrow.

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