Digitial archive

Been working, what seems like ages on the digital archive for the college, don't seem to be getting very far. The content is great, we have images of students work from 2007 to present, but I am the only one tagging and adding in details such as course and year information. As it is taking me a morning to do between 6-10 files depending on the size, I might be on the task for some time.

My day

Following the diaster of yesterday, I feel today has to be better.

Started day at 8am, ordered a pile of books for GCSE english course, must do a budget transfer later today! I'm terrible at remembering finance.

First job of the day is to re-write my CV, easy peasy, I have a completed and up to date version as a I am doing my chartership, but I am struggling with the section professional profil and creative practice section. Ok, after a cup of tea, I manage to type and drink. Finished that task and sent it to HR.

 As I have no teaching today, there is nothing major in my diary, I have a report to read on copyright and I have two reports I need to finish for SMT. Plus I could probably order a few more books and do the connected paperwork for contemporary craft.

Well my plan worked for all of ten minutes, when I relised that WilsonWeb has still not had the problem solved, needed to re-contact IT. Back to Copyright article.

Managed to last 20 minutes this time, before getting distracted- this time it was with tomorrow's display, it's on Brazil, so each member of the department has made a few carnival masks.

Finally managed to finish the document on copyright, it seems to have answered a few more questions I had on digital copyright, but created a few more.

Before lunch my plan is to work out the classmarks for the books that have arrived/ been donated to the college library, so one of the assistants can catalogue them. Will work on the SMT reports this afternoon. Hopefully.


It's 1.45pm and I have completed 2nd draft of the report for SMT, not sure how many drafts I need to create, so I think I am almost there. Very happy, once I have this report done about art and design libraries, I have managed to create a little network of art and design librarians, done some work on criteria 4 for my chartership and managed to (finger crossed) impress SMT.

Overall today has been pretty successful, managing to almost complete the report is a very big task, and doen two finance tasks, however I have broken my email account and can no longer communicate to the outside world.

the next three hours, will be spent- cataloguing books, not work on the report and giving my brain time to heal itself

Blog day

Some of my collegues arranged a blog day, sadly I wasn't unable to attend but manager to get hold of the power points afterwards. Read lots of interesting information. Some ofthe students at the college are using blogs as PDP, which is a very interesting idea.

imagine program

Having just watched Imagine- books the last chapter, I felt I should write something today.

On one hand, I love e books, any tool which appeals to people to improve literacy skills of the population is worth embracing. However as I am the librarian at an art college I'm not sure how this would work here- on a practical level. Some books because of the scale of the images and the detail would loose so much being made in to a small screen.

I can see the advantage of fiction going to Ebooks, but for a generation , of which I am still part of, I love to hold a book.


So, I'm on the fence, I love books and Ebooks.

thing 13 and thing 14

Must get back in the habit of writing here.

Thing 13- I've started using drop box, due to a project I've been working on for a while, it's been pretty useful to shuffle documents to and from each other.


As for Wiki's (apart from Wikipedia) I came across them a few years ago, due to the MIS department in college, they seem to have an addition for them- plus they seem to be able to make the useful and workable.


Moving on to thing 14-
Referencing is one thing I am quiet keen on, mainly as I've struggled with it for years, had to teach students it and created  a document to help students.
I'm always in two minds about referencing software- part of me (the slightly mean bit of me) things, I suffered, so should they. But on the other hand, I think life is too short to get hung up on , and ('s.

Having looked in toZotero I was totally amazed, I think this might be a possible thing to adopt for the college. Spent a fair amount of time watching the promotional video.

Failed

My plan to be more proactive in keeping a blog has failed- simply failed. I just don't get time to.

Today has been  spent working on leaflets for marketing of the library, working out the utilisation stats at course level, doing performance reviews on new staff, hole punching everything in my chartership folder- mind numbing yes but it's fallen out too many times. Plus purchasing new stock and cataloguing what turned up today.

Still need to do more on my chartership, but I've started getting very vague, "stuff" is hardly going to help me complete it. So tomorrow's to do list, will be  more a comprehensive list of what needs to be put in to place for the chartership. I've only got one meeting planned for tomorrow, which I need to attend- on a fact finding mission. Plus catalogue the computer games- a new and exciting media for the library to supply to Game design students. So another busy day is planned for tomorrow.


IIve got to say i'm happy got Friday booked as holiday- but then I have to work on the dinning room- needs to be redecorated so it looks like a dinning room. Missing my table and chairs, I've been eating off of my knees in front of the TV for weeks.

chartership

Trying to have a whole day to collect evidence on my charterhip, I think three out of the four criteria are going well, but it's criteria number three that is being a bit tricky at the moment.

Think I will need to have a chat with my mentor soon.