{"id":323,"date":"2007-09-01T01:47:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T17:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/01\/best-workday-ever\/"},"modified":"2007-09-01T01:47:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T17:47:23","slug":"best-workday-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/01\/best-workday-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best workday ever."},"content":{"rendered":"

So, call me a twopointopian<\/a> for loving my workday today. If exploring new worlds for librarianship, experimenting with new ways to do what we do and raving about it isn’t your thing, skip this post.<\/p>\n

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Here’s why today was fantastic for me:<\/p>\n

9:15am <\/strong>– 20 minutes or so in a meeting for Enquiry and Loans staff showing pretty slides and telling them what emerging technology is and why I think it’s important for library staff to learn about it, and then outlining the 23 Things program.<\/p>\n

9:40am<\/strong> – Upstairs to the accountant for Teaching and Learning where I used her credit card to order a Second Life island for the university.<\/p>\n

10am – 12pm<\/strong> – Reference desk shift. Just another ordinary one, where I felt like I helped people and their faces lit up when I explained what the library held for them.<\/p>\n

12:15pm<\/strong> – Emailed all library staff announcing the 23 Things program starting mid September, and inviting them to register<\/p>\n

12:30pm<\/strong> – Emailed the university’s Second Life Interest Group telling them that we have an island<\/p>\n

1:30pm – 5:00pm<\/strong> Seminar with Stephen Abram<\/a> where he outlined Top 10 Strategies for Library Success and with versatile wit, speed of thought and intelligent charm quietly blew the minds of 30 or so librarians.<\/p>\n

5:00pm – 5:30pm<\/strong> Made a short video clip of Stephen talking about 23 Things programs, to use for the launch of the 23 things at work.<\/p>\n

6:00pm – 10:30pm <\/strong>Shared food and drink with Stephen and six other librarians who all were interesting thinkers and conversationalists.<\/p>\n

Wow!<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2 September 2007:<\/strong> OK, so I had a lot of awesome library techie things improbably converge in the one 12 hour period. “Couldn’t possibly get better”, I thought.<\/p>\n

This weekend when catching up on my feeds, I discovered it did get better. On the same day, Michael Stephens from Tame the Web<\/a>\u00a0 highlighted this blog as one of his 5 blogs for Blog Day07<\/a> that “inspire me, engage me and make me think”.<\/p>\n

Excuse me, I’m off to lie down in a quiet room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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