Librarian of Things

§1 First off is this recommended read from the November 17th issue of The New Yorker, The rise and fall of getting things done by Cal ‘Deep Work’ Newport. As Newport himself describes his work, It’s not, however, really about David Allen’s productivity system, which longtime readers (and listeners) know I really admire. It’s instead…

I had a staycation last week. It took me two days just to catch up on email I received while I was gone. And the only reason I was able to do that in two days is because I had booked the days off as meeting-free so I could attend an online conference. Said conference…

Some things I was up to this past week: I registered for the Indigenous Mapping Workshop which will run Nov. 16-18; had meetings pertaining to servers and surveys; attended regular meetings including that of the University Library Advisory Committee, Leddy Library Department Heads, my bi-weekly meeting with Library Admin, and the WUFA Grievance Committee uploaded…

This is my third week of weeknotes and I have to say that the format is agreeing with me. I did a quick search online to see if any other librarians have adopted this particular format and I couldn’t find anyone from the librarian profession so I have yet to become an influencer (*snerk*). I…

This was the week that I planned to remove myself as much as possible from my regular working responsibilities and reconnect with my chosen community of Access 2020 which is the GOAT of conferences, in my books. This did not happen. Instead, I ended up working on a variety of management-related responsibilities and caught what…

“Weeknotes are blogposts about our working week” Web of Weeknotes Having a set regular writing schedule seems to work for me. Since 2016, I send out a small set of recommended reads, games, and other things every Saturday morning via a TinyLetter to around 200 people. Since August of this year, I’ve managed to send…