And we have cake!

Cake as both a celebration of the said Neville's birth and the lighter days was provided for Library staff by Cataloguing. Neville was a cataloguer in his day and his day was a couple of decades ago. Cataloguing staff kept up the tradition after he left the Library.

So cheers Neville, wherever you are!

It is 25 minutes until I can leave for home. It is too hot and I am too tired todo anything. everything is sticky and I just want to sleep.

So writing up minutes it is then, as I really can't hit the refresh button on my fiends page anymore...

And I've had almost 20 enquiries, a couple of whch have been long and convoluted (and both for alumni rather than current students).

Can't wait to get home as I am absolutely starving. And there's nmg too, I suppose.

No outdoor sex for me this morning, as I volunteered to do the morning shift on the enquiry desk at work. so far I have been here 33 minutes and although numerous students have walked past, not one has needed to enquire of my knowledge. Just as well I've got some work to be going on with.

Contrary to earlier weather forecasts, it isn't raining ( Read more... )

The sky is clear, the sun is shining and I want to go home and do stuff around the house!

Instead I'm going to be writing a quiz on Blackboard for students to do on Monday afternoon. What I really want to be doing is sorting out more of the house in preparation for Nick's parents coming tomorrow. I'd like to get everything done to give me time ( Read more... )

Lunch today was spent very pleasurably by myself.

I went to the cafe at the Nuffield Theatre on campus. It was quiet, but not so quiet that you felt as if the staff were watching you and only you. The music was laid back even if it did veer dangerously close to modern jazz from time to time and the food was tasty. I had a grilled goats cheese ( Read more... )

Librarians 'suffer most stress' (BBC)
Stress? Shhhhh . . . (The Times)/p>
What the researcher describes doesn't sound much like a professional librarian's job to be me. Don't know the last time I was stuck between book shelves (in fact, I wish I did get out into the book stacks a bit more often). And as for my work being repetitive and ( Read more... )

Have spent most of the day (when not on enquiry desk duty, or looking through old Chemistry books, reading the judgement in the Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District (i.e. the 'can Intelligent Design be taught in schools' case). Very fun reading. As it is the last day before the Christmas closure, I don't feel guilty about doing ( Read more... )

I thought many of you wonderful people on my f-l, would be interested in the following programme from the Beeb, in collaboration with the OED:
Balderdash and Piffle

The OED need help tracking down earlier evidence of words and phrases such as Cyberspace, Beeb, boffin, nerd, something for the weekend, pear-shaped and many more. Full details on ( Read more... )

Stack Envy, n. envy by the lesser librarian of the greater librarian's possession of a well-organised and designed stack.

I suffer from it. Oh Bolderwood, would but your stack were mine!