Actually make it to the gym at lunchtime, hence the sporty post title. Presumably you all know the intellectual version of the song?
Propel, propel, propel your craft / Placidly down the liquid solution / Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically declaiming / Existence is but an illusion
Or there’s always my goddaughter’s favourite: ‘If you see a crocodile, don’t forget to scream’.
Anyway the Concept 2 Rowing machine is quite an apt metaphor for the work of a librarian during the summer. You feel as though you’re pulling very hard and working up a sweat but not actually getting very far…
I lie actually – today I got round to some long neglected tasks such as writing up a staff development event from early June. Also starting to get information literacy classes booked in. Attended the ORG meeting, which is a lot less fun than it sounds. Usual state of flux for most details of our service, even though registraton and induction are starting to loom dangerously large.
Sent feedback to a Revalidation candidate on their draft submission. Potentially a strong submission, just needing a bit of a tidy up and a pare down. We definitely tend to the verbose in this profession – our horror of leaving out any useful information? Or our determination to record all our activity since we went through so much blood, sweat and tears to fit it all in?
Lots to be done in advance of the CDG Officers’ meeting in September. Much discussion of agendas, which of course presuppose reports… need to schedule an evening soon to get my head together and start compiling my own report and the porposed revisions to the Draft Strategy.
