Had we but world enough and time

A day of both unexpected progress and unforeseen setbacks.

That scary paper I was wrestling with? I sent a long email with lots of answers to the academic’s questions, and he is happy. The paper itself doesn’t need any further redrafting before its public debut. Result

Manage to send a few more emails by way of information literacy liaison. Most of the computing staff are away anyhow so no great hurry except that I would like my tasklist to major in black rather than red tasks.

Go to a rather confusing-yet-enlightening meeting about the summer school that is not the proper summer school but involves all the subject areas and and doesn’t have a name. The session I will be running for it is uncannily similar to the one for ‘proper’ summer school. Needless to say everyone wants to camp out in nice library teaching room for the duration of the entire fortnight-long performance. Explain at least six times that I can only take 25 students at a time…

Our local public library no longer has a complete set of British Standards. This is a major blow since they are our backup and we are currently between e-resources! “Oh bother” said Pooh.

Update the freshly minted library portal pages with the new Shibboleth URLs. Great phone call from an engineering colleague: ‘Amanda, what’s this thing beginning with S that I can’t pronounce?’