I have just signed up for round 4 of the library day in the life project which starts next week. This will be the fourth time I have taken part so I am planning on doing things a little differently than I have before. To run alongside the 365 day photo project I am participating in on Flickr I am going to keep a photo journal of my working week. I am especially looking forward to this round of the project because next week is going to be far more varied than a typical week for me. For a start [...]
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Library Routes
As I was sitting getting my head stitched up in a cubicle at the John Radcliffe last night the doctor asked me whether I had always wanted to be a librarian. This made me chuckle as I have been thinking about it a lot over the past few days since a discussion started on Twitter about how we all came to be librarians. A few people (Woodsiegirl and Jennie Law) have already blogged their routes in to librarianship and Ned Potter has kindly created the Library Routes wiki to collate all of our stories. What follows is my contribution. When [...]
Reading habits
Just for fun here’s a little reading habits meme found on the Far Off Librarian blog. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack? Not much. If it’s anything it would be a cup of tea and perhaps a biscuit. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you? Yes the idea of writing in books horrifies me – any kind of book mutilation horrifies me. I use post-it notes to mark pages I want to come back to. How do you keep your place while [...]
