July 23, 2016

 I woke up early this morning and went to work. I had a productive morning. I made another personalized reading list, which takes a surprisingly long time when the person I'm making the list for reads a lot of genres I do not. I still hope one of these people will return their feedback sheet so I can see how I'm doing. I also put my September tech classes on the official event calendar. So they're official now. I had to come up with titles and descriptions that will hopefully sound appealing to at least a few people. Although I wouldn't mind if my first classes didn't have much attendance so I could work up to that. I sent an email to my fellow librarians to see if any of them wanted to teach one of the online resources class, because my boss doesn't necessarily want me to teach all of the classes, just come up with the ideas and the content. That will take some of the pressure off of me. And hopefully I'll be able to participate in some of the non-tech adult programming.

During lunch I worked on my blog posts. I can't remember the timing of everything but at some point, I think after lunch, I managed to finish my blog post on LIRT and I came really close to finishing my post on GAMERT. I was technically doing schoolwork at work but I was also technically doing work at work. I joined both of these round tables after the conference because they both will make me a better librarian and help me do better at my role of teaching tech classes and trying to get younger adults to come into the library. So, I'm doing research in order to write my blog entries but I am also learning a lot about each round table and getting ideas for things I want to try. I would consider it professional development.

I also helped patrons throughout the day, because that's kind of my job, too. One of them was writing a paper about our reference services for class. After talking to her I learned that she is in her second semester of her MLS degree and the professor she is writing the paper for is one of the professors that went to the conference with us. I'm assuming it is his research class but now that he is a full-time faculty member he may be teaching some other ones. I also learned that this girl was also at the conference because she got won a scholarship to cover her costs. Small world.

I did not accomplish much after work. I had dinner and then felt exhausted the rest of the night. I should have done laundry but that thought occurred to me after ten o'clock. I had some thoughts about finishing my GAMERT blog but I think I am going to save that for the morning. It would be nice to have it finished before work so I can read over both of them after work before posting them. Then I can spend tomorrow night working on the conference website that my roommate and I are supposed to make.

In a perfect world the website, or at least my part of it, could be finished by tomorrow, so I could have the rest of the week to work on my capstone website. That obviously won't happen considering we only have a basic idea for the site and haven't really divided up the work yet, but I'll see what I can do. I also need to put in some time for my practicum. I'm getting closer.