It’s been a few months since I’ve done this, so I thought I’d share. I’ve had what I would consider a typically random day for me also, so here goes….

8-8:30am

• chat with coworkers in the ILL office

9-9:30am

• check email for overnight emails
• prepare email address list for the local roundtable I am chair of

9:30-9:45am

• compose email chairing a virtual business meeting/election for the roundtable, ensuring we are following both Robert’s Rules and our bylaws

9:45-10am

• cleared off desk
• keeping an eye on email for the virtual business meeting

10-11am

• cleaned up emails
• took care of missing payment for online resource
• tallied votes for virtual meeting
• sorted catalogs for Education collection development

11am-12pm

• cleared bulletin board of snowflake display
• put up spring & alphabet book display
• organized display materials
• emailed website suggestion to colleagues
• rebooted my computer to fix mouse issue

12-1pm

• attempted to find downloaded file for student that was saved in unfindable location
• lunch!

2-3pm

• poked on Envisionware to try to change guest pass settings
• helped student find primary sources for her Education paper
• started gathering titles for an updated professional collection for library faculty

3-4:30

• showed Education students how to do collection development
• tallied votes for roundtable meeting
• ran invoices to acquisitions
• contacted photographers about my wedding
• wrote this blog post!

As you can see, there is a wide variety of activities during my day, and not all of them are directly related to my job title 🙂