This morning I walked into a hectic scene involving a phone that rang practically every time I set the receiver back down. In-between phone calls I ran about the library trying to take photos for our social media. I quickly realized that the gloomy cloud cover was underexposing my photos while the flash washed everything [...]
Lately my days have involved a lot of heavy movement working on patron issues with eBooks. This can mean writing emails, making phone calls, testing out devices, and if all else fails, contacting the vendor for support. Today was a vendor support day where I had to have OverDrive reset the license for an ePub [...]
Friday
Another mixed bag sort of day. I troubleshooted a computer and when all else failed, I carried it downstairs to my coworker. He discovered that the hard drive was shot. I was able to meet with my boss for forty minutes where I peppered him with a wall of questions. Most of my [...]
I tried to add some depth to this drawing, though my friend says the eyes are super creepy!
Worked in the computer lab for two and a half hours. Most of that time was spent explaining presentation techniques that were then ignored. Crawled all over the floor taking measurements for a project that I then put together a semi-coherent report on. Worked my way through emails which included trying to fix a patron’s [...]
I opened and closed my day by talking to the Children’s Library about their website. It’s a large process — perhaps the most complicated since they post frequently and are very popular with the community. So it is a delicate operation to get their site just right. This means lots of spontaneous meetings to discuss [...]
Today was all about the odds and ends. Most of the strings came in via email or were sent out by me as I checked up on other staff members’ place in projects. Then I made a few new panels including another stab at an animated one in Keynote. I also had to dismantle my [...]
I can’t give any details yet, but I will be announcing two more freelance professional gigs soon. :-)
Thursday
I spent pretty much the entire day building this extremely simple site on our test server. This meant creating a Drupal child theme so I could port in Twitter Bootstrap, making adjustments as I commented out sections of the css so it would not interfere with the functioning of the website. It [...]
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