I’ve mainly been at work, or at least that’s what it feels like! Not only has it been the beginning of the new academic year, but we have also moved into the Shiny New Learning Centre. The SNLC (or SNeLC (sorry)), is lovely, but comes with its own problems, like an over-sensitive self-returns machine that [...]
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Things I’ve been doing
Posted in Libraries, Library of Doom, Music, singing, tagged chartership, CILIP, library, Messiah, pacemaker, work on October 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Flowers
Posted in Library of Doom, Other people's gardens, tagged photographs, poppies, thistles, wild flowers on July 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The other morning I took some photos of the wild flowers growing on a bit of ground on campus. I don’t know whether they are truly wild or whether someone once planted the seeds there, but anyway, they are very lovely things to look at on my way to or from the Temporary Library of [...]
Nothing to say?
Posted in Garden, Heart, Library of Doom, chartership, singing, tagged Carmen, chartership, church, Garden, Heart, hens, Hot Mikado, MRI, work on June 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Despite the fact that things are happening in my life (obviously, but you know what I mean) I find that I have little or nothing to say about them, so I will just make a brief annotated list to keep you informed:
I’m going to start a ‘new’ job on 1st July. I will still have [...]
Stuff I’ve been doing recently
Posted in Library of Doom, Religion, Shopping, singing, tagged carol singing, carols, choir, Christmas, church, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion on December 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
(Written on Saturday, 20th December)
December really has felt rather long this year. I think this is just because I really want it to be the end of term and of course when you want an event to happen it seems to take ages to get to the time when it does. Terrible sentence, never mind. [...]
Mysterious missing items
Posted in Library of Doom, NaBloPoMo, tagged Books, Libraries, work on November 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today, I had planned to do several things when I got into work. Unfortunately, I didn’t do them and instead spent most of the morning looking for missing books. Some of the books are ones that people say they have returned but are still on people’s records and we can’t find them anywhere in the [...]
Dear Student
Posted in Librarianship, Library of Doom, NaBloPoMo, tagged letter, librarian, student on November 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Dear Student,
Thank you for your complaint. You are the umpteenth person whose complaint I have had to listen to or read about or hear about today. I am very busy and tired and I want to go home. If you do not wish to pay your fines you should have returned the books on time. [...]
Rotas, Rubik’s cubes and Sudoku
Posted in Libraries, Library of Doom, tagged issue desk, library, rotas, Rubik's cube, Sudoku, work on October 2, 2008 | 8 Comments »
One of my current jobs is to create rotas for the staffing of the issue desk. You might not think this is an arduous task, but you would be wrong. Even when it is enough to write a rota which applies week after week for the entire academic year, the business of rota creation is fraught with difficulties. Of [...]
Blogging challenge: Blog about what you know
Posted in Blog Challenges, Blogging, Library of Doom, tagged Blog Challenges, Books, christianity, Information, Judaism, knowledge, paper boat on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This one is definitely going to be a challenge. In her post, Lorelle says, “Think about all that you know and then choose the one thing that you would arrogantly assume you were the master of. Then write about it.” There could be a slight problem with me trying to answer her challenge, in that [...]
The Bank Holiday weekend in slightly random pictures
Posted in Garden, Library of Doom, Photos, tagged Bank Holiday, photographs on August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I was twelve
Posted in Library of Doom, tagged careers, Chalet School, childhood, librarian, writing on August 22, 2008 | 9 Comments »
We had a “workshop” at work the other day, one of those things where people from different teams meet to discuss things and ‘give their input into future developments’, to use a managerial phrase. Of course, there was the inevitable bit when everyone has to introduce themselves to one another. I really don’t like that [...]
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