A story from Monday, the first day after Hurricane Irene…

Our Power Library computers are set to go off five minutes past closing each day. I and everyone else who works with patrons that use our computers forgot this fact on Monday until a call from the reference desk twenty minutes into my closing shift [...]

Patron help of the day: Last week a lady came in seeking advice on how to digitize her personal document collection. I was working in the computer lab at the time, so I could not devote my attention to her. She came in today and realized how crowded our library was since 40% of the [...]

It’s past my bedtime since I’ve been playing with my new Samsung Epic phone. So just a quick list of today’s activities:

Meeting to talk about the web redesign plans. We basically just rehashed last week’s conversation. I started theming my first View for the classes’ schedule. Emails returned! A glitch deleted any emails [...]

I confess to being grumbly pots when I realized that I’d be at work for 10 hours today (vs. the usual 8.5). Since 40+% of the town was still out of power, the decision was made to be open 90 minutes longer four days this week and show two films a day (I had to [...]

On the way home tonight, Thomas and I were talking about what a UX librarian does. I only have the limited experience of my own job which my boss had a hard time describing. He wouldn’t have used the phrase “catch-all” but it is fairly adequate. I prefer to think of my work as “Solver [...]

This post is for Thursday, August 25th:

Worked on classes registration some more. Trying to see if Google Forms vs. Webform Events Drupal module was the best option. Created panel for an upcoming exhibit. Created a post for next month’s eblast newsletter. Wrote to some people about how to promote our texting service more (which [...]

Should we be providing what is considered now-standard levels of service when no one uses that service? Is the less-is-more model better applicable to my library’s website? Is the library’s website a virtual branch or a false-front? (working on a post for this) What is the use of text-a-librarian like services in the age of [...]