March 25, 2016

It's after midnight and I want to go to sleep, so lets make this quick.

Today was a very slow day. I had two classes in the lab this morning, the third one never showed up. I think my morning was spent editing photos. There may have been something else in there but it's not coming to me.

I got an email back from the librarian at the academic library and he said hew wouldn't really be around this summer, and that there isn't a lot of reference or instruction traffic during the summer, but he's going to ask his department head and see who will be around and what kind of work they would have for me. So fingers crossed on that.

This afternoon I had a couple classes in the lab and edited more pictures. At the end of the day I went and watched one of the third graders who I helped put a YouTube video in her PowerPoint, give her presentation on snow leopards. I was supposed to watch the presentation of the other third grader I helped but they apparently started early. Oh well.

After work I did nothing. I had plans but knew nothing was going to happen. After dinner I wanted to look at the demo EMS we have access to this week but it was offline. Unfortunate. The discussion regarding it is a pass/fail thing, so we only need to post once to get credit for the week. One option is to respond to a question, so I responded to the professor's question asking if there were any disadvantages to not checking in e-journals, which is just the process of making sure you get every issue that you have subscribed to. It is/was a common practice with physical magazines and journals but some librarians aren't a fan of the practice with e-journals. I don't really know how the process works with e-journals but I suggested the system should be automated, so librarians don't have to waste their time manually checking their subscriptions, and vendors could be automatically notified of the missing e-journals, which would expedited the process of getting them delivered. If it doesn't already work like that I think it should.

At work I started looking up stuff on universal design and I did a very small amount of research tonight. I did not, however, come up with an idea for my paper. That is not good. Tomorrow morning the professor for my electronic resources management class is having a class meeting to show us around the demo EMS. The rest of my day needs to be filled with writing the universal design paper for my technology class. Classic me. The paper should be written tomorrow so I can edit it on Sunday and turn it in. Although it isn't due until Monday so there's a good chance I won't actually finish it until Sunday and then edit it on Monday. I want to go with the first option. The key will be focus. I need to close all my browser windows that aren't related to the paper. I can do this.

But I must go to bed now so tomorrow can get here and I can do all the things related to this paper.