19 posts tagged “work”

Cuts May Add Layer of Dust to Library Shelves

That's my position.  That's going away. 
How can a library in 2008 not have a dedicated webmaster?

that would be me. today.

we're cool enough to make McSweeney's...

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Ten reasons to be a librarian

You totally get to classify things.

Where else are you going to ruin a person's day over a 20-cent fine?

The funky glasses make you easily mistaken for a hipster.

You can make up whatever you want and people will believe you just because you're a librarian.

Ten reasons not to be a librarian

Who wants to go to grad school for two years to learn theory you will never use?

Those little punk teenagers on skateboards.

People kind of expect you to know things.

If you know enough about how to find information to be a good librarian, you can definitely make more money doing something else.

I love my job.

More at the link above....

What's making you say "TGIF" today?

The fallout from the passage of Amendment 1 that I've been dealing with all week.  God, it's going to be worse than anyone ever though.  How could people pass this shit?  And where was communication from FLA, the Firefighters, the Police before this went to vote?  I really blame those groups for not communicating to the general population the devastation that this caused.

Show us where you work. 
Submitted by leisa bell.  

My desk:

The view from my building is outstanding:

I leave for Phila tomorrow for my sister's babyshower, but if anyone's going to be in town Friday night, I'm planning on bailing the family stuff and heading downtown for drinks and debauchery.  Let me know.

I'm debating going to the Dresden Dolls show here in Tampa tonight.  I don't feel well, and know that I'm going to have a high stress weekend, so I'm probably going to not go, but if anyone has any overwhelming reason I should go, let me know.

I'm working on the website for MPOW.  The woman who had this job before me didn't check in any of files, so I'm going through the LIVE SERVER and deleting all the .LCK files.  If anyone has any good idea on how to do this instead of hitting every single folder on the server, let me know.

Where do you get recommendations for new books to read?

Lesseee...LJ, AL, Choice, Kirkus, UNABASHED LIBRARIAN, SLJ, IL, Amazon, B&N, Borders, colleagues, staff, patrons, family, friends, students, email groups, NYTBR, just to name the ones off the top of my head.

Basically, wherever I can.

I don't blog much about work.  I find that when I leave work, I want to focus on other things.  This doesn't mean I don't do professional reading and prep and work from home, it just means that I want to forget about the politics, the personalities, the general sitting behind my desk for most of the time I'm not there. 

However, I did something good today.  My desk is in the circulation workroom with my staff.  I generally listen to my iPod hooked up to speakers on my desk.  It's low and I'm in a corner so most can't hear it, but it allows me to focus on what I'm doing as well as keeps staff from thinking I'm listening to them.  Sometimes I am, sometimes I'm not.  But I digress. 

A couple Saturdays ago that I worked, I started asking my staff what song they wanted to hear in the 30 minutes before we open as we're getting ready and played their requests if I had them on my iPod.  Songs have ranged from "Welcome to the Jungle" to "Memories" and that's fine.

This afternoon, one of my staff asked if I had a particular song on my iPod because one of the others hadn't heard it.  "More Than A Woman" by the Bee Gees if you must know.  I didn't have it, but youtube does, so I hooked the speakers up to my laptop and played the clip.  This morphed into all-request hour.  I played Patsy Cline, Nancy Sinatra, Prince, The Beatles, Abba, Neil Diamond and others.  It was much fun (though some were very painful for me to play), and I think I'm going to do it every Friday that I'm there (I have off the Fridays after the Saturdays I work).  I even put a request bucket on my desk so I can be prepared. 

It's good for morale, it's generally slow on Friday afternoons, and they liked it.  As long as it remains fair and everyone gets to hear what they want (as long as it's generally worksafe), it's all good. I was able to continue to work as the songs played on my laptop. 

Well, I've been doing some locked posting other than the lyric of the day, but I know there are people who aren't on vox that read my blog and have been wondering what's up.  Therefore, a year in review - especially since today was a major significant day in my family last year.

So:

• This time last year I was in Philadelphia waiting for my aunt to have her kidney removed because she had kidney cancer.
  She's now doing very well - better than she has in years.
• Around the time of my grandmother's 90th birthday, things came to a head with my not-soon-enough ex and we decided to divorce.
  I'm still in that process and am tired of it.  I just want it over.
  
• I started living life the way I want to, on my terms, as who I am. 
  This is the healthiest and happiest I've been in years.  I have good friends and have really found what's important to me. 
• Work is work.  I'm always looking for something else, but in the current climate of FL libraries, I'm hesitant to change jobs.
  I like what I do and most of the time where I do it.  Right now, I have the hat trick of stress:  divorce, selling a house and people close to me dying.  I don't need to add a 4th stressor.

The only thing I can add is that at this exact time, I have had, for the better part of the past 2 weeks, in and out of my head, the following song.  For those who get it, bear with me.  It's a rollercoaster that I'm not really minding riding at the moment.  It is what it's supposed to be.  And it's all just fine.

This is not about love
Cuz I am not in love
In fact, I can't stop
falling
out...
I miss this stupid ache.
-Fiona Apple, "Not About Love"

I am very glad there is beer in the fridge at home.

It's been a fuckall day.