I can’t remember when I started working from home – the date is not ingrained in memory. I think this is as a result of a few things. I had started a new job as Senior Libraries Development Advisor in Welsh Government in January 2020 and the first 3 months were very much a whirlwind […]
This week (29th July) I was able to visit my office for the first time since 17th March. The building I normally work in isn’t a library, but the first floor is dedicated to the ‘back office’ staff of the library service. Here you will find cataloguers and acquisitions staff, the inter-library loans team, open-access, […]
My first year as a CKG judge has been an absolute whirlwind – and that’s without factoring in the global pandemic! I spent last summer buried in books, which is my favourite place to be, and this year looks set to be just the same. Lost in those pages, I travelled far and wide from […]
My job has definitely changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. I work in a single staffed branch library so it was impossible to work from home. Instead we were redeployed as community buddies, shopping for people in the community. It is a role that is perfect for library staff, as we have excellent customer care skills […]
Now that I don’t have to drive to work, I have used that time to do the things I enjoy. Apart from reading lots more, which is great, I have been practising my crochet skills. I have completed some bigger projects of shawls, and some smaller projects of flowers and butterflies which I have turned […]
Lockdown isn’t all about work though it sometimes feels that that is the way I have framed it because that is one obvious affect on me. However, because I am working from home I no longer have to commute on a crowded train, and I gain two hours in the day to use as a […]
I’ve been working from home since Tuesday 17th March. I’d been feeling twitchy for a few days prior to this, and increasingly uncomfortable about travelling on packed commuter trains. On the Monday I left the office taking home a variety of papers and documents that I knew would be useful for working from home, I […]
So it looks like we’ll be WFH for a good few months yet. This has made me rethink the whole thing. I can’t ‘camp out’ in the dining room any more. I can’t keep using my phone ear buds for 6 hours a day. I can’t just use scraps of paper which are now piled […]
My COVID-19 leadership challenge started formally on Sunday 15th March, this is when my university announced that it would be suspending on campus teaching and moving to online delivery from the week commencing 25th March. In reality it had started before this date, it was clear the crisis had been affecting the team in a […]
For me and my family, lockdown began on the third week of January. Little did I expect to still be in it many many weeks later! We started lambing back in January and finished some time in April – right around when every day began to feel the same. Lambing time means early mornings, late […]
