Aaron the Librarian

Yay, EZproxy cfg entries are in for all the proxiable databases! Vendors contacted to update IP ranges and ID the proxy server. Whee!

Seein’ as eye almos’ miss’d ‘er, Eye’ll continner ta rattle off in me fav’rite dierlekt. Arr!

Does eye hav me sights set too low?! Here’s kinder what I’s a plannin’ ta git dun bye th’ end’er Spring Semest’r:

• Git me daterbases ta talk at e’ch uther, nice like
• Git so I c’n strut me Voyager stuff by Janerary
• Be th’ master o’ my own Voyager by June
• Git a handle on oor eee-resourcees so’s I c’n figger out hoo ta rattle when oor eee-res’es dinnae do whut theys supozzter in a daterbase
• Figger out hoo ta brandish me cutlass at ta loosen up the strings on ther Shipp’s purse strings (and hoo ta make nice ta)
• Git on’r good side o’ th’ Biznez faculty and make ‘em go ‘wow’

Mebbe thar’s enuf o’ thet piratical talk fer naow.

Arr! Eye dinnae fill in me activity trackin’ sheets t’day! Whar be th’ scallywag what dinnae reminder me ta fill ‘er out?! By the sweat on Davy Jones’… er… par’n me ladies… by Davy’s locker, I remembered TLaPD in the verry larst moment! Shivver Me Timbers! Arr! Whars me grog?! Arr….

Yay, I can now trim some (but not much) monay off my MidWinter and Annual trips - I’ve successfully reserved a University vehicle for my trips to the hairport (MW) and DC (Annual).

So, if I sleep in the car and shower at the YMCA I might almost be able to afford Annual; is there anyone looking for a massive roomshare, similar to the ones in San Antonio & NOLA?

• Crunched and graphed a bunch of IPEDS data
• Filled in our SerialSolutions Article linker preliminary profile datasheet and sent it in (thanks for all the great help, Kirk)
• Tried to reserve a univeristy vehicle for a conference trip (to LITA in Nashville)
• Am 2nd in queue
• Color printing process ironed out - still need to draft policies

That’s it, I’m outta here for the weekend

I noticed I wondered if I was a bit a-r a few days (er… weeks) ago. Turns out I’m not all that much. I’ve already forgotten to update my activity list for tenure document.

Yay, I’m normal!

Now I just have to figure out what I did minute-by-minute yesterday and write it in…

Accidentally got tasks assigned to me today

• I’m to work up a plan to redistribute the ~36 workstations in the computer lab around the building to accomodate the lad room being turned into a class room for 1.5 to 2 years while another building on campus is renovated.
• I’m to get the IPEDS data for our network of schools and our asperational peers for a Peer Data project (oy, most current data is >2 years old)
• I may be made an assistant in our LibQual+ reporting system to help gather and enter our data
• Publish or perish:
• Possible opportuinity to write up a history of the library at the university for public consumptin as well as a more detailed version to publish.
• Institutional memory is personified all the way back to ~1968 (how’s that for a local resource?)
• Now I just need to find the time to do the research (and still keep some sort of family life going)
• Work up a printing policy for the color printer (heck, all printing apparently)

Good thing I’m not busy with other stuff already (hahahah!)

Ah, more good stuff on the network presmissions front…

I now have access to our shared network drive, took a lot of today to meader through to see what’s out there. Lots of stuff, though about half looks a bit dated (which is okay, since there is new stuff too).

Not much in my baliwick, but I do note that I don’t really understand teh organization schema. Okay, I note “Data” folder is more structured. Hrm… this will take a while to absorb. (on top of all the other stuff I’m doing or will be doing - good thing I’m not busy (hah!))

Oi, don’t feel that I accomplished much of anything of great importance today. Just spinning wheels and their breathing smoke.

One bright note, found the university’s paperwork site for requesting travel monay for conference and workshop fun. Les’see, I want to go to 5 conferences and 7 workshops - I hope this is a well funded fund.

Gone, long time missing. Just 1 quick gripe, thanks for the indulgence.

I totally miss my network god-like rights from M[former]POW. Ran into a problem with network based printing tonight and knew how to short-term fix it, but I’m just an end-user now. No more swooping in, pausing (abandoned) jobs to free the flow of paper through the printer. *Sigh* I’ll just have to be happy that fewer trees got pulped during my shift tonight.