The Mondays

I have a case of the Mondays. Today I spent the entire day deleting emails from my inbox at work, as it had filled up, only to figure out--at 6 pm--that the problem wasn't my inbox or sent items or deleted items, but rather that my files weren't syncing, and therefore all that deleting did absolutely nothing. No offense to people who work in the IT industry. You have to deal with your fair share of people who have no idea what they're talkng about, but sometimes some of us actually know what they're talking about. For instance, I put three calls into our technology services center. The first was predictable, and probably correct. I just needed to delete a lot of emails. The second, after I had deleted over 500 large emails, was met with the response that my emails are a mess and I shouldn't have ever let them get that way (I can't delete emails because time after time a student comes to me with questions that I've already answered...keeping those conversations cuts down on my workload significantly). The third call went unanswered, after I was finally able to verify that it wasn't my "messy inbox" causing the problem.

What does this have to do with library sciences? Well, a lot actually. First, I've already become more confident in my computing skills, hence why I stuck to my guns, knowing that there was a problem beyond the obvious. Second, just as I will as a librarian, I handle a LOT of emails from my constituencies, and any way of streamlining is well worth it, even if that means saving every single email. Thirdly, well, I'm trying to archive my emails. What's wrong with that? Just like a book, article or newspaper, you never know when it might come in handy. Once it's gone, there is no salvaging it.