1. An awesome day in
the work life….
Elizabeth

2. Walk in

3. Chat with Online COO about the upcoming
Thanksgiving holiday.
Discuss National
Distance Learning Week
Essays with
COO, Online. She
suggests making one
last push for entries on
Facebook.
(Photo used with permission)

4. Turn on computer.

5. Design and implement NDLW
essay contest “final push.”

6. Scan/read The Chronicle
• Look for relevant articles
on Libraries, Online
Learning, Financial
Aid, etc. Forward to
appropriate ONL Campus
personnel.
• Note 2U/College
Consortium agreement
and send a note of
congratulations to 2U
COO, who is an old friend.

7. Read new essays
submitted for
NDLW Essay
Contest. The ONL
Director of ASC and
I need to pick a
winner!

8. Communicate with NJ
librarian looking for a job.
Offer job search
suggestions.

9. Plan Secret Santa event
for Online Campus.
• Consult with COO- ONL to clear
the project.
• Develop survey using Survey
Monkey to make participant data
collection simpler.

10. Online Faculty Discussion
• Quarterly discussion board
• Read through all entries (64 participants, 232 posts)
• Reply to relevant entries
• Learn about and plan to attend webinar on
“Scaffolding the final paper via the Discussion Board.”

11. Learning object chat
• Chat with Matthew via
Sametime about an awesome
Camtasia presentation he
made.
• Tested link in presentation
• Suggested minor (very minor)
changes.

12. Faculty Interface
• Reached out to Professor teaching CSK051JS next quarter to
coordinate activities.
• Exchanged multiple emails with super-active CSK Team about
supporting this class and development of learning objects.

13. Email reference
• Reply to email from student who needed help finding peer
reviewed studies for her final paper.

14. LP- schedule changes!
• Take LP at 11AM so Matthew can attend meeting.
• He will take from me at 3PM so I can attend meeting.
• Teamwork!!!

15. NDLW Essay, revisited
• Print and review another Essay
entry.

16. Back to Discussion
• Finish Online Faculty Discussion in the Online Faculty Resource
Center.

17. Mundanities
• Start to process materials to be returned
to other libraries; get interrupted by LP
Chat.

18. Eureka!
Twenty minutes into LP chat with
student, it is finally established that while
she is typing the word “ebrary,” she
actually means a Gale database.

19. Check-in and transport plans
• Finish checking in library materials.
• Look for padded envelopes on campus. None found.
• After conferring with Laurie, plan to drive library materials to
WPK to have Eugene send them to their respective campuses.
(Hurrah Eugene!!! Hurrah Laurie!)

20. Health Insurance Differential
• Call to set up coaching sessions to obtain medical premium
differential.
• Have impromptu coaching session with Coach (one down, two
to go!).

21. Student Support
• Conferred (via email) with other members of Student Support
group about a student affected by Hurricane Sandy.

22. Learning Objects Planning
• Review list of learning objects created
this quarter, and plan future objects.
• Work on scripts for learning objects and
tutorials.

23. LP growth
• Based on Jim’s suggestion, Bernadette will join LP team next
quarter.
• Service will expand an extra five hours per week, on Sundays.
Hurrah Bernadette!
• Coordinated (via email) with Jim and Marlene to plan training.

24. Final Proof – verification
• Receive final proof of article I’ve co-written for peer reviewed
journal.
• Do happy dance.
• Print a copy to take to Marlene when I go to WPK to drop off
library materials.

25. Phone meeting
• Chat for short meeting with editor at a major library
publishing house who may be interested in my book proposal
for an edited work on Online Embedded Librarianship.

26. Head to WPK
• Drop off materials for Eugene
to send to respective libraries.
• Try to show article to Marlene,
but she’s at MDL. Leslin makes excellent
stand-in.
• Go to say hello to Laurie, and get embroiled in detailed reference
question with her and a student. Turns out student asked me the
same question via email but hadn’t read my response yet.

27. 4:02 PM
Time to go home!