Spooked Is Me

Monday

Freaky, sort the box of management crap we lent to Steve the QPR fan and get it back on the shelf. Weird kinda deal, he teaches the clas and takes a subset of the library as a mobile branch library type of thing. Seems to work OK.

FoI troubles me but one I was expecting, what I'm not expecting is a call from Sefton trying to make sense of one of their requests.

Important lesson for library users, heavy breathing behind me may get my attention eventually but far better to say hello, I tend to appreciate it more! It's also quicker. Also if I'm involve in doing something else and haven't noticed you enter the library just poke me with a sharp stick!

Chat to Gill about bids following the recent work we've done. Looks like BMJ is the front runner. Freaks me out because I see a need for more marketing to get people using what we have yet the support for that stuff is subsumed in the lust for more resource. I understand where it comes from, it's taken me years to slap it out of myself! Still begin work on the marketing toolkit we've developed for the group which gives them some free things they can do if they can be arsed to put some sort of effort in. In this I'm my usual stoopid self, the CD cover is everything! Shallow git or what!

Today

Bloods hell, not yet 8.00 as I type this and I'm on top of things so far. Dinner is prepared for tonight it just needs heating up. I've done the bits of tidying that I've got on my prevent the next Big T timetable. Cal is ready for school. News is done. Freaky or what! Corporate induction today and Helen is on the induction so where do you go with that one. Still it'll give her three days decent kip! Although I don't want to think how induction could impact on your dreamstate!

Ambushed

'fess up I forgot I was due to be at a Collections Development meeting at Mossley today but no probs, Outlook warned me in enough time for me to:

1. Finish the coffee I was enjoying
2. Ring Steve and warn him I was running late.

Get to Mossley, use the super secret password to speed through Mossley House (that secret that I know it!) and I'm first there. Gill arrives, Helen and Ang arrive and on to business. Most of the detail is irrelevant, then the end of the meeting I get asked if I've put the bid in. Not having spent time with Sally yet (planned for this morning shifted by forgotten meeting to this afternoon) I mutter something about it is planned. It then becomes apparent they refer to a joint bid for Cheshire and Merseyside. Now given what they are after was their idea I'd assumed they'd bid for it, they clearly though I was gonna. Result I end up writing the bid this afternoon. It won't be great becasue I only have costs, no notion of suppliers and the whole thing therefore feels half-baked to me. Would have been better from them where at least the whole thing would have made some sort of sense. I also end up as chair of this group..... Our bid seems to go OK. Chat to Linda. Stinker of a search comes in, the lovely Orla calls and Monst lets me know the new suite has yet to arrive. One positive two negatives and the positive is easily dealt with. Technorati Tags: Collections Management, Cheshire and Merseyside Health Libraries, Bids, Pissed Off