The end of the first serious week dealing directly with the virus and all i means.
I'll be working at home for the next months or such.
This week worked on trying to serve my University of Virginia faculty in two departments - Anthropology and Middle East and South Asia Languages.
Examples - 1.
getting an ebook for an Anthropology Department professor working in languages
2. Telling a MESA professor how she can order ebooks of three books (in English) for her class on Persian literature, so she can zoom manage her class for the rest of the semester. [Final graduation exercises have been canceled for this year.]
Work from home most days 9 to 6 with breaks, handling emails, requests, orders, books, shipments, daily zoom sessions.
Also this week - I was scheduled to go to the annual Association of Asian Studies annual conference in Boston, participating in 3 librarian meetings and attending academic panels. But the Conference was canceled - so had to cancel air tickets, hotel, registration. And tell my Boston friends I would not have a chance to meet with them in person.
I've also been using Slack, email, and attending a daily one-hour update library Zoom session at 3 pm.
Have been out to get groceries 2 afternoons. Have been on daily (40 minute) walks. Participated in a one hour contemplative science session (yogo and meditation).
Of course, look at Facebook also.
Otherwise we are working from home, staying, cooking, entertaining, movies at home.
Seems like it is a heightened sense of worry and anxiety - what next, but also sort of bringing us closer together - we're all in the same boat.
I'll be working at home for the next months or such.
This week worked on trying to serve my University of Virginia faculty in two departments - Anthropology and Middle East and South Asia Languages.
getting an ebook for an Anthropology Department professor working in languages
2. Telling a MESA professor how she can order ebooks of three books (in English) for her class on Persian literature, so she can zoom manage her class for the rest of the semester. [Final graduation exercises have been canceled for this year.]
Work from home most days 9 to 6 with breaks, handling emails, requests, orders, books, shipments, daily zoom sessions.
Also this week - I was scheduled to go to the annual Association of Asian Studies annual conference in Boston, participating in 3 librarian meetings and attending academic panels. But the Conference was canceled - so had to cancel air tickets, hotel, registration. And tell my Boston friends I would not have a chance to meet with them in person.
I've also been using Slack, email, and attending a daily one-hour update library Zoom session at 3 pm.
Have been out to get groceries 2 afternoons. Have been on daily (40 minute) walks. Participated in a one hour contemplative science session (yogo and meditation).
Of course, look at Facebook also.
Otherwise we are working from home, staying, cooking, entertaining, movies at home.
Seems like it is a heightened sense of worry and anxiety - what next, but also sort of bringing us closer together - we're all in the same boat.
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