I tell the people reporting to me to schedule learning time for their 1st hour of the day. Before turning on email or listening to voice mail. Rarely is there anything in daily operations that can't wait an hour.
Of course I totally suck at taking my own advice. I wish I had time to improve my skills with MySQL, RDF, and XSLT Laura -- Laura J. Smart Metadata Services Manager, Caltech Library [email protected]/[email protected] On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Bohyun Kim <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to learn most of all how to find "time" to learn without being swamped > by everyday operations... > > > Bohyun > > --- > Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS > Digital Access Librarian > [email protected] > Medical Library, College of Medicine > Florida International University > ________________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries [[email protected]] on behalf of Simon Spero > [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn? > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Nate Vack <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Edward Iglesias >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello All, >> > >> > I am doing a presentation at RILA (Rhode Island Library Association) >> on changing skill sets for Systems Librarians. I did a formal survey a >> while back (if you participated, thank you) but this stuff changes so >> quickly I thought I would ask this another way. What do you wish you had >> time to learn? >> >> Statistics. >> > > R can be a dangerous tool without a basic grasp of statistics, but then > again, so is statistics. > > Simon >
