Today the librarians bring home made food for a library workers’ buffet. We tell the assistants just to turn up and get fed and they seem to appreciate this. One colleague’s daughter has baked a sackload of raisin cookies, so we award her an honorary Higher to go with the rest of today’s exam results. Feel a bit sluggish all afternoon and wonder just what was in those cookies…
Meet with IT Training colleague to discuss what we are going to say in an hour’s teaching slot we’ve bagged on the PGCHET. Feeling singularly uninspired but then remember best remedy is plagiarism and ask another librarian whether I can beg borrow or steal an activity she did at a staff development event way back when.
Start to prepare sessions for the summer school that isn’t proper summer school – still don’t know whether I will have 5 or 25 students or which disciplines they will be covering. Programme is quite tight so despair over lack of time to fit much in. Even though apparently I talk fast.
Member of staff rings up with questions about Google Scholar. She has mysteriously found a PDF of an article to which we don’t subscribe… luck of the draw… good chance to tell her though that various current mysteries will be resolved soon and behold I bring all new subject guides to the portal.
Thinking I should really start looking at my next Presidential report for CDG tonight. Dashed off a quick book review for Scottish Division newsletter, Focus, this morning. Also making headway organising another Revalidation event – some folk are still registered for the process even though ultimately it is going to disappear and be replaced with a light touch CPD scheme.
Ah, constant change, what can you do?
