Summer
Summer is a weird time for a 9 or 10 month academic librarian. I am only working Wednesday afternoons this summer as everyone advised me to take some time off after year one. I’m glad for the time to spend on various pleasures involving geekery and bike riding, but there are frustrations as well.
As you know, the library sure as hell doesn’t stop going when I’m not at work. The emails don’t stop coming, the thinking never ends, and the dreaming big for fall goes on all summer. To some extent it feels like I might as well be a 12 month librarian, I’m doing 12 months of thinking about it all.
There are also project management aspects that are frustrating. I agreed in spring term to undertake certain ongoing projects and responsibilities. I can’t really make them all happen in 4 hours a week, so other people have to forge ahead with them. This is good and I love working with a team who makes stuff happen. On the other hand, it was going to be my project and I wanted to be the creative force behind it. I’ll still be the coordinating force, but you know that’s a bit different.
It’s just the way summer rolls, but it takes some getting used to.
