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
I usually save the memes for a day when I’m struggling to think of what to write, but I’m going to use one for today’s post. The rule is that each answer must start with the last letter of your previous answer. Here’s my contribution: Name – Andrew Animal – … Continue reading