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| One of my non-work accomplishments over the last few months: Jolteon! |
Firstly (just to get it out the way), I got back into crocheting again, and finished off a number of projects, including a couple which I'd been working on for many months, so my crochet blog got updated quite heavily.
Secondly, from mid-August to the end of December last year, I was lucky enough to get a secondment to the University Library Music Department and the Pendlebury Library of Music, and they have a blog between them, which I took part in updating. These were my posts - hope you like!
- Meet....Diana Wood
- A New Year Begins
- Hallowe'en & Birtwistle
- Marking time, pushing paper
- So long, farewell
In particular, I won't regurgitate my reflections about the time I spent there, since I covered that in my last blogpost with them. I will say it was wonderful to work with a team, to learn lots of new skills, to see how others works (and bring back the best/most efficient bits of their workflows, while helping them streamline theirs where possible!). I hope they gained something useful from having me there, too!
It did come at a rather odd time though (what with other things going on at my library and in my personal life), and I've come back to my work with something of a sense of frustration that time has rather stood still in the library while I've been away. There are some projects I'm very excited about that have been accomplished, including a massive bequest of books from an old curator having been processed so we now know what we have!
But there's a lot of work to catch up on, which is annoying when you come back with lots of fresh ideas and new initiatives that you want to try, and first you've got to get the general slogwork out the way before you can tackle anything new. Just don't mention periodicals to me for a while!
Still, while I do miss all the music, it is quite nice getting back to all the picture books! (Some of them, anyway..)
