Busy writing, busy writing. The blog team had its last pre-launch meeting, and now we’re just putting the finishing touches on our brainchild, which I will, of course, shamelessly promote as soon as it goes live.
The CLP website redesign goes live next week as well, so there’s been a lot of last-minute tweaking there. I suspect I’ll be spending a good deal of time Monday morning testing database links (in-library and remote access) to make sure there are no hiccups with the referring URLs.
Other alchemist endeavors this week have included:
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tweaking the Ref. Services LibraryThing procedures (so far, so good!)
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adding up January database stats, making arrangements to get stats for new databases, and other assorted database troubleshooting tasks
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good old-fashioned collection development (long may it wave)
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answering reference questions about French theater
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various computer “How do I?” questions
One fear I had about becoming the “techie librarian” was that it would mean I would have less time to read. Thankfully, those fears proved groundless. I’ve just finished The Knitting Sutra, which I’d highly recommend to not only knitters, but also anyone who would enjoy a short, gentle read about the soul of handicrafts. On tonight’s bus ride I’ll begin Elizabeth Gaffney’s Metropolis. 19th-century New York? Sold!
What about you? Reading anything swoon-worthy?
paperback writer said,
February 20, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Nope, unfortunately, I’ve run into that awful dilemma (sp?) of being in between books. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I have books to read…I just don’t want to read them right now.
LAV said,
February 21, 2008 at 10:50 am
Arrgh – that’s always so frustrating, isn’t it? What are you in the mood for? Just curious.