::alio!::

self-plug

It's not often that someone tells you that you're fabulous.

Especially not when it's your boss and you've only been working for her for two weeks.

But that's what happened.

I sent her and the other member of the library committee an email yesterday to ask if I could order a book on being a law librarian, and they both emailed back to say yes.

Then she walks into the library and she told me how everyone is very impressed with my organizational abilities, how the library looks "shipshape" and that my initiative is really outstanding. And that's in accompaniment to the other member of the library committee emailing me basically the same thing.

I wonder if they really know what I do here . . .

I mean, when I get a project in my head I work really hard at it.

I started a monthly periodical detailing changes in the library, new additions, updates, that sort of thing, complete with hyperlinks to respective descriptions, images, what-have-you.

I also created a shortened feature list of all publications available from publishers in 2008 that apply to the lawyers in this firm, complete with images and hyperlinks etc.

Today I digitized the book order form and set up a complicated system of IF THEN commands, so that once you select the publisher, then the publishing rep and the account number automatically appear. Now I'm transcribing all current book orders into digital form and beginning drafts of orders I will do in December.

I'm also re-cataloguing the entire library, which should take me some months.

But this sort of stuff doesn't take me all day.

I spend a lot of time chatting on the internet, pre-Christmas shopping, or making posts. But I guess if it works I shouldn't stop, right? I actually don't want to leave this place sometimes, when I get into things. I've never LIKED a clerical job like this before.

Posted by Ally at October 10, 2008 11:24 AM