Day by day - first week of 'vacation time'

Monday 25th May
Usual Monday morning catching up on people and places and any issues
Changing communications to reflect out of semester times including library opening hours and study spaces.
Communications meeting to plan website and printed information for next semester including 'Getting Started ' and 'IS Essentials'

Tuesday 26th May
Update on stock relegation - checking up on how much staff resource we have now that semester is finished to concentrate on this project and how much space we have for 'weeded' items to be held while they are checked and processed.

Collated extra tasks list for staff and also started pilot of delegated tasks whereby other teams can request for assistance from Customer Services Team.

Looked at statistics and what is needed for end of year summary.

Wednesday 27th May
We are planning on implementing a new library Management System next year so we are at the beginning of the process.  We have had some Project Board meetings and some SCURL/APUC meetings and are now starting the operational meetings.  these are an opportunity for all staff to be involved and contribute.  First meeting of the LMS Circulation, Document Delivery & Inventory operational group.

Then another look at the SmartStock device which is the handheld device that is part of our Bibliotheca RFID / Self Service set up to use for stocktaking or weeding.  We have not had much success so far as the file formats don't seem to match up.  Had a look at it with our Systems Librarian and hopefully we've worked out where the issue is - now we have to get it reported and resolved.

Then onto weekly Change Advisory Board meeting - not too many planned changes for this week apart from there will be network downtime on Saturday to upgrade networks and servers.

To finish off the day I had a quick meeting about the latest plans for moving the 3hr loan collection to a different location.  I've been reviewing the usage statistics and the number of items in the collection to see where would be the optimum location in order to improve accessibility.

Thursday 28th May
Customer Services Team Meeting - the advantage of out of semester time is that we can have a meeting at the beginning of the day when everyone can attend rather than having to split into two in order to cover the Service Desk.
Items that are top of the to do list at the moment are:
Building work - museum and library entrance
Posters and notices
3 hour loans
Extra and delegated tasks
Business Continuity - task and finish
Weeding
Training
Library Management System
Room Booking System
Social Media

Thursday is my day when I'm based at the IT help-desk so went down there to catch up on what's been happening and if there are any issues that I need to help with or escalate.

Then had a meeting to look at what we need to do to review the IT Helpdesk system that we are currently using to see if it is still suitable and doing what we want it to do.  Also some of the nitty gritty like looking at forms that will integrate to create tickets and setting up new departments, users and permissions.

Friday 29th May
Planning training for over the summer and for the beginning of semester.
All staff in the team have filled in the spreadsheet confirming the training and development they have undertaken during the year and have sent suggestions for training that they think would be useful.
I'm collating the list and trying to arrange times and also looking at how to put some of the training online.

Meeting with line manager about staffing and about comments and suggestions and about inter-library loans.

Checked up on social media channels and scheduled some posts for over the weekend.