Digital Projects Manager for the Kansas City Public Library
Three days of blogging in a row was probably a record for me, but an unexpected invite to the annual dinner for the Jackson County Historical Society threw me off my game. Below are the final two days of my participation in the Library Day in the Life project.
Thursday, January 28th
8:00 -Email, checked in with our volunteer and had a brief discussion on various ways to identify authoritative sources.
9:00-9:05 Drooled over code{4}lib lineup
9:05 – 10:00ish Random discussions with various people on the process for posting the internship description, plus some email
10:00 to 11:10 Drafted message about future digitization projects
11:10- 11:25 Set up conference room for call between vendors, discovered documentation for using conference call was wrong, figured out how to work the phone
11:30- 12:45 Very eventful call between vendors in which one of my workflow issues gets solved and everyone comes together with a solution to several ongoing problems.
12:45-1:00 grab a quick lunch from Mildred’s
1-1:30 Email while I eat at desk, get a call to see if I can fill as a library representative for a dinner at the Jackson Co historical society meeting TONIGHT (big annual get together with award ceremony), call husband to confirm that he can be my plus one
2:30-3:15 Meeting to discuss the future of how we will interact with a committee of local technology leaders
3:15 – 4:00 Downloaded and organized all documentation on our repository software for our new server administrator, mostly finished email for the day
4:00 Headed home early to get ready for dinner meeting
6:00-9:30 Lots of mingling, wine, and good conversation at dinner!
Friday, January 29th
8:00-9:00ish Finished email from yesterday and arranged conference call follow-up between vendors
9:00- 10:00 Sent out announcements to various job boards about the project coordinator position we’re trying to fill
10:00-11:00 Finally get the chance to organize and put away files from our last project coordinator who left us in early January to go to library school, then work with IT and our library board executive assistant on resolving issue of multiple conference calls today (turns out we only have one conference call line- whoops!)
11:00-12:00 Prep for and attend online meeting/ conference call with vendors (yay for quick resolutions!)
12:00-12:40 Lunch at home
12:40-1:00 Meet with our art director, Matthew Kemp, on how our vendor has implemented his design for KCResearch (which, by the way, is awesome)
1:00-2:15 Deal with email from the morning
2:15-4:15 Begin to watch video of our IR software being installed on our server so I can better understand it while occasionally stopping to look something up that I don’t understand (also occasionally answer email when it gets boring)
4:15- 5:00 Finish up email and do weekly review so I know what most needs my attention next week (because I will surely forget over the weekend)
5:00- Happy hour with library friends!
Jordan Fields 