What does a library director DO all day, you ask???
7:30am alarm – snooze
7:39am alarm – snooze
7:40am scroll Facebook instead of making breakfast or tea or packing lunch
7:50am drag self out of bed, throw on comfortable shoes, don a dress too long for the rainy weather, and a zip up fair isle cardigan – no bun today!
8am hit the road! Traffic. Delayed about 5 min. Listened to Conan O’Brien interviewing Justice Sotomayor.
8:55am enter library building
9:00am Zoom Staff meeting / materials selection policy review
10:10am check-in with staff member
10:25am relocate a plant, leaving a leafy trail behind me to the delight of the custodian who lives to vacuum (not really)
10:30am tea & email
10:40am check in about Construction issue (scheduling painting – do we have an extension ladder)
10:45am wordsmith a quote for a construction press release
11:00am start compiling the weekly report
11:30am respond to town accountants RFI – pull state aid info
12:00pm collection development – added requested new NYT bestseller to Nonfiction order
12:10pm interview prep
12:30pm check in with technician
12:35pm interview prep
1:00pm question about bills
1:10pm email
1:20pm meeting with a patron regarding mask altercation
1:30pm interview
2:40pm approve weekly warrant for bills to be
2:43pm check a patron account
2:45pm apple & almonds for lunch in my car on way to school pickup
3:15pm OT (kid not me)
5:00pm Wegmans run
6:30pm dinner prep, mail, email
7:00pm dinner (Wegmans noodles, dumplings, egg rolls & sushi, too wiped to cook)
7:30pm webinar on grass roots activism to counteract book banning
8:00pm discussion with multiple people regarding tomorrow’s weather derails attempt to finish webinar
8:15pm delegating of closing tasks
8:30pm laundry folding, Italian ice for dessert
9:45pm wrangle kid to bed, Diary of a Wimpy Kid read aloud, 3 minute loving-kindness meditation & bedtime routine
10:45pm back to work–need to go post on website & social media regarding inclement weather closure
note: this accounting was in response to this McSweeney’s article, How Non-Librarians Imagine A Librarian’s Typical Workday by John Howard Matthews
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