Welcome to Friday!

Well, the squeaking of the Emily-wheel* has yielded results. Emily has let me know that ITS has addressed the question of the voicemail branch with twigs -- or would that be twigs-with/of-branch, or branches-of-trunk? Whatever. As I construe things, it's now been configured in such a way as to (maybe) not dump our callers anywhere likely to disorient them too badly, and we do have access to the shared voicemail box. If I'm wrong, E will set me straight. Hm. I should probably get a lesson on the telephone-machine. I know how to call out, and could guess at how to fetch voicemail -- have no clue how to tell whose voicemail box has messages...

That was a little interlude of me talking to myself.

Re. Publisher X. Fasten your 'living vicariously'-seatbelts, Readers: Emily cc:'d me late yesterday afternoon on the email message she has sent to our distributor, driving a stake through the subscription in question. It wasn't personal.

Who won? Discuss...

As long as I'm chatting about e-resources: We had a haunting issue with a couple of e-resource packages whose links were broken in a couple of contexts, but were transparently accessible in a couple of others. Between E & me we got it troubleshot and fixed between Wednesday & today. Since I'm so new I have no idea how long the problem had existed, or whether it was super-frustrating, or just kind of annoying; the main thing being that all is now right with that fragment of our world.

So. As mentioned before, I'm Emily's new half-time counterpart. I'm still crawling through network folders, aggregated databases, A-to-Z lists, SFX and SerialsSolutions, testing my logins, and wearing a pager a certain number of hours a week in case a patron should need reference/research assistance. (The first time the pager goes off, I will probably have at least 16 heart-attacks.) Ramp-up activity is not super-intense, maybe on account of the approaching holiday. I'm guessing that a deadline -- of which I am blissfully ignorant -- is looming for me to produce something really complicated. If I miss such, I'm sure I'll hear about it, get it done, & move on. heh

I think I'll crawl around the Microsoft Access tables/queries/forms/reports, now.

Maybe The Chicago Manual of Style and the mouse are done falling into the recycling bin for the day.

I want a cookie.

xoxo
Mary


*Please do not confuse with Catherine-Wheel, which is a completely different kind of wheel, and also a 90's indie-band.