Library Day in the Life

Hi,
This is the first time I've participated in this project, Library Day in a Life. I'm looking forward to reading others blogs and reflecting back over mine at the end of the week.

I'm lucky enough to work in a government special library, four days a week, 9 - 3pm. Today is my at home day.
That said, I am currently studying towards a Bachelor of Information Studies thru Charles Sturt University in Wagga, NSW.  So my day off gives me a chance to work on my assignments, catch up on my reading and to do some research.

I also take time to look at my twitter feed. I often garner some gems of information about new technology, upcoming conferences/meetings and issues other professionals are tackling. I also keep an eye on Facebook as I've "liked" a number of company/organisation pages and I find some useful posts from eg. database vendors about updates and system issues.

I've a couple of emails from scientists that I will need to action in the morning but most of them are follow ups and are aware I'm not about on Mondays. We have a great team of information specialists who look after our "Ask a Librarian" mailbox if an enquiry requires a more immediate response.

Well. Time to do a bit more reading before Masterchef.

I'm looking forward to blogging about my activities at work tomorrow.

My Dad

I love to read.

My Dad engendered this love of reading. Every month he would take us to the local public library. It'd be of an evening, after dinner. We'd be in our pj's and dressing gowns. ...Crikey, now I've aged myself some. :oD.

We'd choose mainly picture books, so we must have been very young. When we got home Mum would write them down in a log book so we'd know what we'd borrowed and had to return.

Dad loved to read. He had a mini library under the house. Mainly westerns.

It was his love of reading that started mine. My first library job was in that public library we visited in my younger years. It was a great start to my career in libraries.

One of my favourite library quotes

The Library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.   Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Getting ready for "Library Day in the Life" project. - Organised by Librarian by Day