The day started with a phone call from a senior manager. He’d seen the Guardian report about higher mortality rates for people admitted to hospitals at weekends and wanted to see the original article. Easy! We have a subscription to the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine: N Freemantle, M Richardson, J Wood, D…

Much of both these days has been taken up with the aftermath of the meeting I mentioned in Tuesday’s post. As I didn’t realise I had to take the minutes, I travelled light (the last time I took a laptop to one of these meetings, you would think I had brought a flask of the…

I worked from home this morning, the best sort of work: good coffee, cats and Radio 3. I used it to run some searches, and arrange a visit to a team leaders’ meeting later in the year, where I’ll tell them about my services and find out what their concerns are. In the afternoon I…

I was shadowed today by a colleague newly appointed to an outreach post in a neighbouring service. So we started off by presenting at an induction event for new staff at the community trust, with a colleague from another service, as, depending on their location, employees of this trust can use any one of three…

Tomorrow #libday8 starts, a week long festival of the variety of modern librarianship. Started by Bobbi Newman, who blogs at  Librarian by Day, librarians from all over the world, and from every sector of the profession, describe a week in their working lives, for the amusement of the profession generally, and to instruct those outside…