Two work funnies
1: When searching on moviemail for '100 years of Japanese Cinema' I was rather amused to have '30 years of one man and his dog' suggested !
2: Seen in the staff bulletin this morning:
2: Seen in the staff bulletin this morning:
"Cutting edge" research from my favourite author pairing of the week:
Sharp & McLaws (2001): Wound dressings for surgical sites
(http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD003091/frame.html)
Journal title of the day
Believe me there have been a lot to choose from today
Spudman: voice of the potato industry
With, as a close runner-up: Carrot Country
They should be on HIGNFY
Spudman: voice of the potato industry
With, as a close runner-up: Carrot Country
They should be on HIGNFY
Just to break up the photo posts, a work post
Is it wrong to be amused that a book entitled 'Effective Time Management' is seriously overdue ...
it won't fit, and it is too expensive
So no, no matter what it says on your reading list, the Moscow Metro System isn't likely to be purchased by the library
Also, on a completely different topic, I am more than delighted that this series of books exists!
Also, on a completely different topic, I am more than delighted that this series of books exists!
Title of the day!
How we did without lodgings at the seaside, saved our money, and doubled our pleasure / by the author of 'How we managed without servants'.
http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1835123
http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1835123
Grooooaaaaaann
Someone in the DVD naming department of the Health and Safety Executive has an appalling sense of pun.
Some highlights of the collection include:
A matter of life and breath
- Occupational asthma - the causes, the effects and how to prevent it
Rash Decisions
- HSE's video on work related dermatitis - its causes, effects and prevention
Get a Grip
- Health and Safety at indoor climbing walls
Don't fall for it
- Working on fragile roofs in agriculture
Shock horror
- The dangers of electrocution by overhead power lines
To cap it all
- The capping of stranded wire ropes with polyester resin
A clean bill of health
- Health and Safety in the Dry Cleaning Industry
Oh, and we also have the incomprehensible, and unexplained: Plan your slinging
Some highlights of the collection include:
A matter of life and breath
- Occupational asthma - the causes, the effects and how to prevent it
Rash Decisions
- HSE's video on work related dermatitis - its causes, effects and prevention
Get a Grip
- Health and Safety at indoor climbing walls
Don't fall for it
- Working on fragile roofs in agriculture
Shock horror
- The dangers of electrocution by overhead power lines
To cap it all
- The capping of stranded wire ropes with polyester resin
A clean bill of health
- Health and Safety in the Dry Cleaning Industry
Oh, and we also have the incomprehensible, and unexplained: Plan your slinging
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I don't think you quite meant that
Last night five News announced that it was 10 years since Tony Blair had entered downing street, and was now leaving for the first time.
Now, I know that am not the most avid news viewer, but I was under the impression we had let him out once or twice in the last 10 years....
Methinks they meant the last time
In other news, today I catalogued a thesis on bovine diarrhoea
Now, I know that am not the most avid news viewer, but I was under the impression we had let him out once or twice in the last 10 years....
Methinks they meant the last time
In other news, today I catalogued a thesis on bovine diarrhoea
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You should know better
If there is one thing that annoys me more than 'ISBN number', it is when I see that in a publisher's catalogue
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Title of the day
Seen in the Farmers' Weekly Reader Offers Catalogue:
Beet Lifting through the ages: the beet campaign - 50 years of change
Edit: I have just realised this is a DVD, not a book. I am not sure if this makes it better or worse ...
Someone realised just a little too late
In 2004 the Home Office produced the National re-offending action plan.
I guess by 2005 someone had realised how that sounded, and the report changed to: National reducing re-offending delivery plan
I guess by 2005 someone had realised how that sounded, and the report changed to: National reducing re-offending delivery plan
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Books, buses, and bathing Anteaters
Friday was not a good day. Not only did I get confirmation about the lack of an interview (see below), but I spent far too long on the not-very-megabus. Oh, and I didn’t eat enough, or the right things, or take my tablets, so completely messed everything up.
I did get some feedback on the application though, so I can use that on the other 2 jobs I am going to apply for.
( Getting Home )
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More work goodness
I have just had some really interesting cataloguing training, mostly centred around The Spectator - and how to catalogue some really old printed volumes (mostly they are old enough to be going into Special Collections when I am done with them) . We also found yet more oddities in the catalogue that need to be sorted out.
I know this isn't run-of-the-mill cataloguing, but it does confirm to me that this is the area I want to work in. I like solving the puzzle of how best to describe something so that people can find it, and use it - and, well, I like things to be tidy.
So, I get to start next week by doing some fiendishly complicated cataloguing, and I am really looking forward to it.
I know this isn't run-of-the-mill cataloguing, but it does confirm to me that this is the area I want to work in. I like solving the puzzle of how best to describe something so that people can find it, and use it - and, well, I like things to be tidy.
So, I get to start next week by doing some fiendishly complicated cataloguing, and I am really looking forward to it.
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2 surprisingly good work things
Yesterday I was complimented by the evil bitch boss, which was most unexpected, and then today she told me about some training that would be really good for me.
I am amazed, normally she seems far more interested in undermining my career and confidence.
I am amazed, normally she seems far more interested in undermining my career and confidence.
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Work, but not woes (except for the knitting)
Well this week has been quite a good week, work wise, I have been able to do a lot of cataloguing, and I have learnt a lot of new things - thesis cataloguing, authority reacords, serials records, pseudonymns and diacritics!
Now I need to apply this enthusiasm to the module.
If my next evening duty is as quiet as it was last night I swear I am going to get my knitting out - it really did not need 3 of us there. I still get my TOIL though, which is all I do it for.
Speaking of knitting, I have dropped a stitch while knitting this lunchtime, so if I am to have any hope of finishing this ball and having the join done before the SO gets here this evening I have to learn how to fix it - and fast!![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
phonemonkey has kindly sent me a link to look at - so cross your fingers for me please!
If I can't fix it, then I will have to abandon it until Mum gets here next friday and get on with a bookmark instead - which I need to do anyway.
Now I need to apply this enthusiasm to the module.
If my next evening duty is as quiet as it was last night I swear I am going to get my knitting out - it really did not need 3 of us there. I still get my TOIL though, which is all I do it for.
Speaking of knitting, I have dropped a stitch while knitting this lunchtime, so if I am to have any hope of finishing this ball and having the join done before the SO gets here this evening I have to learn how to fix it - and fast!
phonemonkey has kindly sent me a link to look at - so cross your fingers for me please!If I can't fix it, then I will have to abandon it until Mum gets here next friday and get on with a bookmark instead - which I need to do anyway.
They couldn't call a book that now
Title of the day:
Gay-neck: the story of a pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji.
This won the Newbery Medal in 1928
Gay-neck: the story of a pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji.
This won the Newbery Medal in 1928