I've got the windows up

and am in the dining area at the laptop with the fan on breeze setting. I've washed the handwash dishes and am running a load through the dish washer right now. I just filled the ice cube trays with water and took some bread out of the freezer so I'll have peanut butter and spreadable fruit tomorrow for lunch.

Tonight I plan on working on the game notes for Sunday and starting a book for a review that is due at the end of the month. I also want to tweak my online résumé and curriculum vitae, as I made a date mistake the other day when I did that in terms of when the Kentucky Medical Library Association was created from the two previous consortia that were in the state. I'd used the date of the by-laws, but going back in my e-mail at work I realised the group began meeting three years before the by-laws were actually ratified. Anyway, that's a quick change, and then to put them in .pdf format and put them back up on Google Sites will take almost no time. It will mean going over to the other computer, as it has the original files. I should update those on Dropbox so I have access to them anywhere. I think I'll do that first, then some reading. It's a fairly short book, so it shouldn't take long to go through. Then I can work on the notes.

Today went much like yesterday. I took a printout of my OR reconciliation sheets, along with my charge sheets and referral worksheets, over with me to scheduling, and worked on them in between phone calls, and that worked really well, despite it being our busiest clinic day of the week and all. I got caught up on yesterday's charge sheets this morning as a result, checked over the reconciliation, worked on preparations for referrals (although I didn't make the calls--last time I worked on one of them I was on hold for 20 minutes after being transferred twice, only to have it hang up on me, and I didn't want to repeat the experience with people trying to get through on the line). This afternoon I worked on library things and also on an error report, which involved tracking down my mistakes, crediting extra charges, and putting charges onto other encounters they should have been on. I don't normally make three mistakes in a month, so it was a little disconcerting. It was mostly things like putting charges onto similar names or going back into an encounter without realising I'd already put the charge in. I'm going to have to be more vigilant and go back to verifying my work more closely. I also realised after listening to the person in checkout that the three people I checked out yesterday, while they did get their school excuses, were never given a printout of their next visit time and details. That was a minor oops on my part. But considering I went back after eight months and pretty much just went straight into things, just asking when I couldn't remember something, I think I did alright.

I'm feeling a bit restless for some reason, although part of me wants to go on to sleep. It's a weird feeling. I keep fussing with things, straightening them up, which isn't a bad thing, mind you, I need to do more of that. It's just a little odd, this feeling.

I think I'll go in early again tomorrow. It's working out so I have some time before going over to scheduling. I got some books in from a regular order and also some children's book for the early literacy project, so I need to put those away. That will give me the opportunity to. Thursday and Friday I should just be in the library, and it'll be a slower clinic, so I can fill up the cart of children's books, at least by Friday afternoon, after clinic.

Okay, I'm going to go now. Have a good night if I don't write anymore this evening.

I've been revising

my résumé and my curriculum vitae, and changing the ones online (essentially the same, without my address and phone numbers) to reflect the edits. If you're used to reviewing these sorts of things, I'd love to have some input on the format and content. Thanks!

That reminds me

I haven't mentioned it much here, but in all likelihood I have a little over a year or maybe two left to my current job, because when (and if) the hospital does move near the University of Kentucky, the library and I as librarian will not be going. My job as data entry clerk is in a maybe status, but while it would mean keeping my benefits (which I need terribly), I couldn't live on the data entry salary and would still need to get another job. The ideal thing would be for me to find a library job (preferably full-time) before that happens. So, if you know of a position somewhere within driving distance of Lexington, Kentucky, that could use someone with 16 years of professional experience doing every aspect of library work and with some specialised medical knowledge, please let me know. I check the job list with KDLA fairly regularly, but nothing's really been posted for awhile that is professional level in the area. I'm afraid I'm not inclined to relocate just yet--I have ties here, friends I've known for 15-25 years, people I consider family, as well as my actual blood kin. It can be any library setting; I think I can adapt pretty well. I've been a solo librarian but I've always networked with other librarians and used educational opportunities to stay up to snuff. I'm very comfortable with technology, including social media and mobile technology. I've been known to help patrons at the public library with their Kindles when things were so new the staff there could only take them so far in borrowing Kindle books (they knew their platform, but in order to borrow Kindle books, you need to go to Amazon and do some things, too). I always tried to do it in a nice fashion so I didn't step on any toes, too. I've gotten along with almost everyone I've ever worked with, and can deal with lots of different kinds of patrons with various information needs. I am trained in cataloguing, and can do so in Dewey, Library of Congress Classification and Subjects, as well as the National Library of Medicine ones. I've had training in archives, worked as an intern in one, been a solo librarian in a hospital setting for many years, worked as a cataloguer for a big library vendor, done web design for our local PBS website, and I've had various jobs doing librarian stuff both as a student and later. You can view my résumé here. I've published quite a bit, mostly book reviews and selecting, but a couple of book chapters or so, too, as well as a finding aid. Keep me in mind if something comes up, and feel free to e-mail me or comment on my blog with any suggestions you have for positions that might be a good fit. Thanks!

Whew!

I have paid the following bills: the cable, the electric, my cell phone, my credit card, and I've renewed both my American Library Association and Kentucky Library Association memberships. Netflix and my home phone come out automatically on the 17th. I also signed up for a subscription to the Victoria magazine I enjoy so much. That leaves (hopefully) enough for food for the next couple of weeks, so yay.

Okay, I've paid the bills, looked up some things online for a friend, and revised my résumé, and now I have to write a cover letter for a job I'm applying for. But I went by the library on my way home and got a couple of books on cover letters, because I hate writing them. I just despise doing so. But I think it's more professional to include one, even though the job application doesn't list it as required. So...let me see if I can do it without too much pain and suffering. I think it's because it forces me to market myself, and I still have issues with doing so, even though I know it's fine to do. I can market a library, praise other people's merits, etc., but I have trouble doing so for myself. Anyway, before I sit down and write, I want to look over the books, which come from the Lexington Public Library, and that happens to be where I'm applying.

Oh, and just in case it works out, I got a couple of books on interviewing as well. :)

Okay, here's the revised version

of my résumé. Feel free to share the link, and there's a PDF file of the paper version available for download at the bottom. The web version and associated PDF do not have my home address or phone numbers on them, but they are otherwise just like the one I have formatted for paper in terms of content. (The PDF and paper copies are in the font Constantia. The web version is in Georgia, which is similar but more standard to web users who may not have Office 2010.

I'd welcome any critiques or suggestions as to how I can make it better, especially from those who have experience in selecting candidates from a pile of résumés. :)

Being resourceful means using all your resources...

So I get interlibrary loans for my patrons so they can do their research on a regular basis, especially at grant- and research paper-writing times. Generally I meet with success, maybe having a couple of articles retired in a year. One of them this time was mine. I'm doing a book review for a journal in my field and they suggested a chapter from a book, but when I put the request through DOCLINE, no one could reconcile the citation with the physical book, even though I can find the beginning of the said chapter in Google Books (but can't read the rest of the book).

Well, it'll probably come in too late for this one, but since I have become the book review queen (I have three already published, one submitted, and another in the works), I thought it was worthwhile to find the book. For free. Turns out I have credit at PaperBackSwap.com because I just sent someone my copy of Fatal Vision. It also turns out that the elusive book is in their system, so I requested it, and in a few days it'll hopefully be winging its way to me.

By the way, the book is Lester Snow King's Why Not Say it Clearly, a guide to concise and clear scientific writing, from 1978 (that's the citation I was given and the edition from which a library sent me the table of contents without mention of the book review, as well as the edition I found in Google Books). There's also one from 1991.

Never tell a librarian she can't get a book. :)

Today I was updating my résumé, since one book review was just published, two sections of a book will be out this month (although I have mixed feelings about that one; I had horrible writer's block and didn't do my best, but I haven't seen the final product), and a new award jury appointment to put on it. I'm not that accomplished, and it's not like I've done original research or anything like that, but considering I'm a part-time librarian, I've become fairly impressive on paper, anyway. :) I have fourteen items published (if you consider selecting and rating the annual Doody's picks for orthopaedics) and hopefully two more soon. Not bad for someone who still hasn't ever been able to go to a major professional conference and works in a tiny non-academic library. One of these days I need to fork over the money for membership in the Academy of Health Information Professionals. I've had the points for years; it's the money that's an issue. [At $195, it's less than accreditation for many professions, and that's once per five years, BUT I work part-time as a librarian and would not reap any increase in salary, etc., from applying.]