The point of the librarydayinthelife exercise is supposed to be to attract people to this great profession of ours. I'm not sure today will do much towards that end. It consisted of: end of year financial procedures. We operate on a financial year roughly the same as the academic year. so the end of July…

There's not much I can say about today, because I spent most if it interviewing, and, even if the candidates all consented, I do not think it proper to reveal any detail. If the candidates wish to blog or tweet it, as I sometimes have in my job search, that's fine. And I think it…

For the second day of the working week, I was at our Tooting site, always a pleasure because of the fine Indian cafés for lunch (today I had a Sindhi biryani) and also because we have real users, as we deliver a service to the students on our summer school at the site. I keep…

The Library day-in-the-life project caught my eye, My entries will be atypical: I work in a London further education college and at this time of year we have hardly any students, and not many teaching staff. In any case, this summer is even more unusual, in that we close one of our centres and consolidate…