Work and the library world...

(Song of the moment: Black-Eyed Peas' "Let's Get Retarded" [not the vanilla "Let's Get It Started" that was released])

Fun, fun, fun...

Sirsi wiped out our catalog last Friday. My boss and a couple of their Client Care people spent 20 hours overnight attempting to restore things. Fallout ever since.

We had to use Standalone for Saturday. On a day when a brand new branch - which already has plenty of issues, including understaffing, expanded hours (9 people to cover a branch that is open from 10-9 MT, 10-6 WTHFSa) and having a circulation of over 2200 items a day (big for our system) - opens.

Plenty of items not in our catalog due to Baker & Taylor and Sirsi mistakes/bad connections/bad bibloads.

We lose all of our Acquisitions information for the current fiscal year.

We're promoting a new service which I'm the techie for.

We're re-hashing our Circulation procedures for the new fiscal year to satisfy our Performance Measures, as well as procedures developed for Workflows that just don't work.

We've got plenty of issues that the next rollout (2003.1.4) is supposed to fix, and plenty that it won't.

We've got an inventory this Saturday so it's OT for me til 2am.

We've got lots of new people in-system that are making mistakes all the time when it comes to operating procedures.

We've just lost our techies (the hardware and software side, my side is thankfully not part of the move, but oooohh they wanted us too -- and we may eventually be swallowed) to the city's narcissistic IT department.

*sigh*

In time, this too shall pass, but this pretty much explains why I am gone for long periods. Let alone that my cable company (Comcast) cut off my 'net b/c they didn't implement the recurring automatic payment when I told them to.

Oh well.

TTFN

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