Cataloguer Day in the Life

Library Day in the Life Round6 begins tomorrow, Monday 24th January 2011 and runs all week (yes, it’s a day in the life but some people like to do a whole week, or don’t work on Mondays or… well, it’s up to you). I’ve been aware of this for at least a year but haven’t ever managed to actually take part. However, it took a prompt from Anne Welsh (@AnneWelsh) to make me realise what a fantastic opportunity this was for some High Visibility Cataloguing! Cataloguers and catalogers, metadata managers and knowledge information specialists everywhere should join in and describe what their work involves, what they do in a typical day/week. What better way to do exactly what we’ve been banging on about – show people what cataloguing work involves, how it contributes to the mission and performance of the library. It is a chance to show non-library people but, more importantly as a first step I think, it’s a project that is hugely popular and widely followed by other librarians so it’s a way to improve our visibility among our colleagues. So I urge you all to sign up for Library Day in the Life Round 6, full details here.

Glancing through the list of people already signed up for Round 6 or even previous Rounds, there are a few cataloguers but not many, so please anyone who can do it, do sign up.  If you don’t have a blog or don’t have time to blog, you can tweet with the hashtag #libday6, take photos for the Flickr page or just jot some notes – whatever you can. Anyone who would like to post their Cataloguer Day in the Life as a guest post here should just get in touch with us (contact details above).

This is a great opportunity to talk to our peers and our colleagues about what we do!