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28 Jul 2009

Library Day in the Life: Tuesday

Author: Melissa | Filed under: LIS, Professional

Library Day in the Life is a blog event in which library workers share the details of their work each day for a week. Read other Library Day in the Life meLISsa blog posts or, for more information about the project, visit the Library Day in the Life wiki.


Yesterday’s post included a photo of my at-home work area; today’s post includes some images from the area in which I work in an academic library.  I took these shots at work today.

Multicolored paper strips stacked in a divided container on a shelf.  The strip closest to the camera is stamped with EDU.

book flags

Flagged books sit on a book cart with tall metal shelves containing other books in the background.

cataloged items await processing

Plastic bags containing small plastic pieces are labeled EDUC MISC

labeled non-book items

A stack of publications sits next to a roll of clear label protectors.  Call number labels and printer are seen in the background.

items awaiting call number labels

The third picture shows non-book items being processed for the university’s education library.  This library offers a curriculum materials collection that includes education kits, learning games, and teaching tools like these Reading rods sentence-construction overhead tiles.

After finishing my work at the library, I tackled a response journal assignment for my academic libraries course, writing about a paper that’s generating some buzz in the library and open access communities: Steven Shavell’s “Should Copyright Of Academic Works Be Abolished?

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