Library day in the life : Keeping in touch

[The sixth round of Library Day in the Life is running from Monday 24 to Friday 28 January. You can find the other participants, and sign up yourself, on the project wiki, and watch the #libday6 hashtag on Twitter.]

It is Wednesday and my first blog as a sometime librarian and volunteer. I have previously blogged about a varied career before I left to sail Calon Lan in the Adriatic.

8am write memo for next Governing Body meeting about a name to be added to 1st World War memorial. The retired Fellow Librarian had telephoned on Tuesday about revisions to a biographical listing of the College men who had died and the discovery in Carey's War list of a casualty not currently recorded in Chapel

10-11 University of the Third Age French class.

11.15 - 12.30 Research in Cambridge Central Library on ancestry.co.uk database, conversation with Local Studies Librarian and tasty quiche in the cafe.

1-1.45 met up with former colleagues at Social Networking Tools for Libraries talk given by Dr Samuel Chu #ulchu in the University Library.

2-4 Back to the Cambridge Central Library for a meeting of Doorstep Library Volunteers and a subsequent discussion on how budget cuts will affect the library service. Further research on biographical article. Unfortuately had to miss Anne Jarvis' lecture to U3Ac on Are we facing the demise of the Book?

Home and another telephone conversation about one man listed on the memorial but not in the admission registers who may be a member of staff.

Looking forward to tomorrow, selecting material for my first reader and working for pay in the afternoon as a supply librarian in a faculty library