What a day! On the way in to work I was thinking 'wow I've got a lot to do today' and by 9.15am it was quadrupled.
A teacher came in to see us first thing because two of her Level 1 students had a really awful experience on their work placement and she wondered if we could take them on for the next week and a half. Their placement was at a well known stationers/book vendors often found in train stations, I shalln't say the name. As I run the Student Volunteer programme I'm going to supervise them. So I spent until 10am drawing up a rota of tasks they can do up to the end of the week and printing ff the training notes and leaflets I give to the student volunteers. My entire morning was occupied with supervising them, inducting them, rotaing them etc. At about noon the teacher returned and mentioned that one of the students is dyspraxic - this obviously has a massive effect on what I can ask them to do (he also has a problem with one of his arms which minimises the amount of shelving I can ask him to do) and to be honest I feel quite annoyed that she didn't see fit to mention it at 9am.
In the midst of this we had a student setting up a powerpoint for Holocaust Memorial Day based on a trip to Auschwitz that he had made with another student. He phoned first thing suggesting I set it up for him or else he'll do it tomorrow! I was surprised by his attitude as he's one of our student assistants and usually works really hard. I advised him to come in and do it today or else it won't happen. So he came in and sorted it out.
Lunch was a working lunch at the bistro run by the catering students. It was cross-faculty meeting about maintaining connections with our link school in Ghana. My manager and I are the International Coordinators for the centre. In the course of the meeting the headmistress suggested I lead the team to push the Ghana link which I have agreed to do. Feel quite honoured that the headmistress asked me, but also aware that probably no one else wanted to do it! The food in the bistro was fantastic as ever, I had kedgeree from their special menu in honour of Burns Night.
After lunch I supervised the work experience students and made a little bit of headway on the keywords, but not very much at all disappointingly. I was grateful that I'd sorted out the lists of genre fiction yesterday as it's given them a labelling task to do. The library closes at 4pm on a Wednesday which has given me the chance to blog and catch up on yesterdays - I'll put it down as CPD!
Tonight I'm going to a talk at the Imperial War Museum with a friend.
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