Anna Creech @annacreech@glammr.us
librarian. radio host. choral singer. hiker. caffeine connoisseur. beer snob. cat owner. board game player. stlcards. queer. geek. she/her/hers.
#introduction Hi, I'm Anna. I do #acquisitions and #eresources things at a small liberal arts university. In my spare time, I #sing in two women's choruses, play #softball on two teams (one of which I manage), volunteer at a community #radio station, and watch/listen to #StLCards #baseball games. I also like #weightlifting, #boardgames, and #beer. #hashtagasm
Oh, right. These are the annoying publisher usage reports that aren't quite COUNTER. That's why I put them off when I was working on this back in March.
Pet peeve: people who put their entire insulated lunch box in the staff refrigerator. Especially when said refrigerator is supposed to support 40+ people.
There are plenty of reasons to be annoyed with the Box service at my university, but right now the prime one is that the admin for the library's folders is the only one who can edit permissions, and many permissions were set up incorrectly. The person who is the admin left the library three months ago.
I should have paid more attention in my freshman year programming class. Not that Pascal is going to be of any use to me now, but the mindset would be helpful.
Also, we use an Outlook Exchange Server for email, calendaring, and meeting room reservations. It's okay to just send a meeting invite for a time when everyone's calendars appear available. Anyway, @platypus and @serialscrisis reminded me of this weird dynamic, and my calendar is always up to date.
I think I make myself accessible and open to coworkers dropping in about anything, and then I get weirdly formal emails asking if we can schedule a meeting. It's a small library, but maybe not everyone is as casually communicative as I frequently assume?
Right now, though, I'm mainly concerned that I have Voyager transactions for vendors that don't total the same as the Banner transactions for those vendors, and trying to track down all the paperwork to figure out why is driving me insane.
Librarian with her own purchasing card for collections materials + vendors that invoice partial shipments separately, but not consistently = WHY I CAN'T GET VOYAGER INVOICE TRANSACTIONS TO MATCH BANNER
Cleaning up and reorganizing the files on my work computer in preparation for getting a new one next month. I decided it was finally time to move the rest of the My Documents stuff to my Box Sync folder and trust the system to work. These files are primarily all the digitized license agreements for our #eresources, their usage reports back to 2008 or earlier, and renewal decisions back to 2010-ish. About 4,600 files in 615 folders.
So far, my only complaint about this space is figuring out how far I need to scroll back to catch up.
#introduction Hi, I'm Anna. I do #acquisitions and #eresources things at a small liberal arts university. In my spare time, I #sing in two women's choruses, play #softball on two teams (one of which I manage), volunteer at a community #radio station, and watch/listen to #StLCards #baseball games. I also like #weightlifting, #boardgames, and #beer. #hashtagasm