I remember working as a solo librarian in a government department where I did everything; no staff to process and shelve books, catalogue or do stocktake whilst I attempted to complete reference enquiries, current awareness and training in a timely fashion.
As a mother of two young boys, I find a similar challenge - no staff to do the washing, cleaning, cooking, care for sick children, manage the homework and speech therapy whilst I read interesting articles, synthesise important concepts, do assignments and learn about new technologies, not to mention blogging.
Next week, I'm going to attempt the time study observation Purcell (2010) suggested for TLs and see how feasible my workload is. The harder steps will be: becoming more efficient, knowing what tasks to ditch, what help can be found.. and discussingoptions with my family.
Knowledge is power. I'll get back to you on that one next week,
Anna
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