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Morning

email - lots of email. oh joy!

General project maintenance/managerial stuff. Investigate/fix workflow issues with the Mass Digitization project (the robotic book scanner). Hunt for a workstation for the contract worker that is working on the WWI digitization project. Do my due diligence on that massive black cloud looming.

Today is Wednesday. Wednesday is my weekly research help desk shift. Each week I have mixed feelings about my time on the desk. I am only on the desk two hours each week, and never really experienced that whole “being a real librarian” thing. Generally my time is spent directing students to the IT helpdesk, bathrooms, or a floor a particular call number is located. On the rare occasion, I get an actual research help question. They are fun, but too far and few in-between. In the next year or so I will probably not have a research help desk shift anymore since we are moving to a blended service model. I’m still not sure how I really feel about it.

Afternoon

Investigation into questions raised in IR Working Group meeting from yesterday.

Begin preliminary planning of a questions pertaining to providing retrospective open access to previously published works by faculty members. Commence opening a giant can of worms. I also had the backend structure setup for the research centre/institute mentioned yesterday in our IR. This is our first major collaboration with a large section of the faculty. Needless to say I am pumped!!!

Run around frantically trying to find people to finish a couple last minute things. In the process, the fire alarm in the library goes off as I am walking out of the book store to the library. I have no coat on. I am cold.

The rest of the afternoon was spent battling the atemporal destruction of my inner-being by the just right hand of the flying spaghetti monster, holy bacon. Otherwise know as fighting the good fight. Hopefully Slartibartfast will be there to help along the way.

Ponder, Parse, Ponder, Parse…

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Nick Ruest
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