As a follow-up to my previous post on the oldest currently active caches of each type in Australia, I’d thought I put together a list of the oldest caches of each type in each state and territory. I took the advice of Sandy from the Podcacher podcast, and simply used … Continue reading
Inspired by the discussion on show 566 of the Podcacher podcast about when and where the first of each type of geocache was placed, I decided to try and find this information out for Australian caches. The following list (from oldest to newest) shows the earliest currently active cache of … Continue reading
Today marks 10 years since I arrived home after my first overseas holiday. It was a seven-week trip to the US (with two day-trips to Canada thrown in) with my sister. We had a great time visiting the west coast, east coast, and Hawaii. My top three places that we … Continue reading
Well, we’ve made it to the end of the week. It was another mixed bag today: One-and-a-half hours working on my presentation One-and-a-half hours updating our e-book holdings One hour on email Two hours working on our offsite access URLs Two hours troubleshooting access to our e-journals So what did … Continue reading
Another day where a lot of my time was spent working on our online resources: Three-and-a-half hours on the front desk (which includes some of the following) One hour providing EndNote training Two-and-a-half hours finishing a literature search Half an hour on emails Three-and-a-half hours doing various troubleshooting of online … Continue reading
Well, there wasn’t much variety in my day today. Most of it involved working with our electronic resources. Three-and-a-half hours on the front desk (which includes some of the following) Two hours on a literature search One-and-a-half hours troubleshooting a problem linking from PubMed to some of our full-text journals … Continue reading
So, here’s the second day of my working week. Three hours of meetings One-and-a-half hours checking the links for our offsite access authentication Half an hour on emails One hour on a new literature search Half an hour working on my presentation Half an hour on e-book usage statistics Schrodinger … Continue reading
This week’s posts are going to be a record of my working days. Nothing too detailed, just a summary of what I spent my time on at work. Hopefully they may prove interesting to those of you who have wondered what medical librarians get up to each day. Of course, … Continue reading
It was a pretty wet day here today, and the weather meant that it was a good day to stay inside. We all pottered around doing different things – my project was to finish off my Lego R2-D2 that has been a work in progress for a while. I got … Continue reading
The hospital where I work has its own resident cat. It occasionally makes an appearance in the outdoor area where I have lunch, and today it was there. Because we’re never sure if it’s going to be there or not, my co-worker and I have named the cat Schrödinger after … Continue reading