Ah, another day down…where does the week go?

Another some of this, some of that kind of day.

AM

• Try to weed through my inbox. How exactly do I get so much e-mail between 8pm and 8am?
• More EBL loan requests to process.
• Realize I haven’t sent our original cataloguing to OCLC in a while. Extract two months (!) worth of records from Horizon and batch them up to WorldCat.
• Process some recent book donations.

PM

• Work on records for the latest external (to the Library) collection being added to the catalogue, McMaster’s Centre for Leadership in Learning.
• Help my acq staff on a wrinkle with our Business approval plan. Am reminded that automation only makes things faster and/or easier when all the pieces actually work. Contact the vendor about needed changes.
• Continue reviewing the older open order reports. Decide which orders to cancel, which to reorder somewhere else, and which should be given a little more time to show up.
• Print some articles and reports to read over the weekend.
• Pack up and head home.

Well, that’s the end for me–Wednesday is my Friday this week. Tomorrow will be spent madly cleaning the house before the folks arrive for a few days. Of course, there will still be e-mail to keep up with (so much easier than coming back to 200 messages next week), but it will be nice to have a few days (mostly) away from the PC.