July 2019
We’ve just submitted our law library’s annual data for 2021. It’ll go into an organizational report with comparative data from pre-pandemic 2019, as well as 2020. On it’s face, it has little value. As expected, we experienced wild swings in
Our law library reopened. And then reverted to virtual as the next viral variant swept past. But, like many organizations, we made a dramatic shift towards the cloud in 2020. This has created a stable operational through line during the
I happened to be able to visit my parents with my whole family over the Gregorian new year. It’s the first time my folks have seen the grand-kids in 2 years. So it was a real joy to be able
I’ve been taking advantage of some time off work to get some reading done. I tend to look in the business section but am noticing that a lot of the ebooks I find on Overdrive that are readable are in
It has been three years since my twin brother was arrested by the Russian government as a pawn in their game of hostage diplomacy. I had no idea that, three years later, he would still be there. And it’s not
One of the perqs of being around in a profession for awhile is that people you’ve met come back around. I had a chance to chat with a colleague who is mid-career and thinking about law librarianship. We had connected
I’ve lost my lunch. No, not that kind of lost my lunch. As the pandemic has gone on and our lockdowns were extended, I found my meals disappearing. Our family has always started the day raggedly, each person eating
It’s performance review time in our organization. It’s always an odd experience, as we tend to start annual reviews at month 10, which I think creates its own issues on what counts. I gave 9 reviews this year, reflecting the
There are times that you really have to search to understand whether it is better to stick with something or not. I’m experiencing a workflow break down – what was working well now isn’t – and it creates tension. At
We have been open for a month. For those of you whose law libraries have reopened – sometimes multiple times – our experience is probably not much different from yours. As I had expected, it has highlighted some new challenges.