I haven't been posting much lately. This is because I've been quite busy. What have I been busy with? Here's edited excerpts from an email:

I am doing cataloguing (editing the catalogue records that others put together), which takes about 5-15 mins per title, depending whether it is difficult or not, and am supposed to do 10 titles per day.

I work at the counter (the Information Counter) of the library 3 hours a day (up from 1 hr, and may go to 4 hrs), which is where I help students with questions like computer/printing problems, looking for books and articles/doing research, etc.

I'm also developing and conducting workshops - currently I have a basic research skills workshop for pre-u students, how you go about looking for information for projects. This is 1 hour. These kids come during their class time. I'm also doing a new one, open registration, on finding information on the Internet. We are offering it to college staff first, and I am pleased to say that quite a number of people signed up! It's a 2 hour workshop.

I'm also in charge (more or less) of development of our Web site - currently we have a bare bones online catalogue, and we would like to make it a real library gateway, with information about the library, resource guides, more user help, etc.

There are meetings - library staff meetings, demos of new products and services. I had a training workshop for our own library staff once already, and probably have to do at least one more soon.

User issues - students - lost and found, circulation issues, other things that come up. College staff coming in to get textbooks, etc.

I also have to do the roster now, which is difficult, as it's quite a job to have all counters manned all the time, and rotate everyone satisfactorily. There are also rotations of other duties to be considered. Each time I do it for one month, but it takes basically 1-2 days to do it.Then there are other things like putting up stuff on the notice board, doing displays of library books to highlight items from the collection, and whatever else. Also reference enquiries from staff that come in via email - help with research.

Another new thing is to do presentations on EndNote and/or RefWorks, as we are considering these products... They are new to the college.