I’m getting back into the swing of things this week, and taking note of anything I could build on for Chartership. Busy busy few days – colleagues were out on holiday or sick on Monday, and by Tuesday the News of the World storm was gathering.
Weeks like this make me wish I worked full time, the Guardian has become the news and I’m guessing the department’s been busy!
Monday July 4
- Journalist request for specific Lancet article, with vague details – checked The Lancet website for full details, checked Factiva and Nexis, contacted health correspondent who subscribes
- Uploaded Saturday’s From the Archive, and tweeted it from the dept account (@guardianlibrary)
- Uploaded today’s From the Archive, and tweeted it
- Journalist query on Olivia Colman – cuts from Factiva and internal archive, didn’t find much, journalist pointed out I’d misspelled her surname – note to self, CHECK SPELLINGS FIRST!
- Journalist 192.com query
- Journalist query on Qatar and the World Cup – Factiva, internal archive
- Journalist request for articles on fire in Russia in 2006 – Factiva
- Wrote blog post for Friday – learnt how to find, edit and upload images, and link to archive articles
- Blogged a correction from 1925 that I came across – Morons not Mormons
- Found and edited a From the Archive article for next week (11 July 1925)
Tuesday July 5
- Uploaded today’s From the Archive, and tweeted it
- Updated the Afghanistan casualty list, filling in gaps that had appeared over the past few months, and adding the latest death
- Reposted the new Afghanistan casualties page to the Datablog, and tweeted it
- Found and edited a From the Archive article for 16 July
- Added content to the From the Archive blog homepage – navigation bar links – and added a link to it from the From the Archive series page
- Found a journal article for a journalist that was behind a paywall – Google search let me link to the article, bypassing the paywall, cheeky!
- Journalist query for names of children abducted near Milly Dowler case (in connection with NotW) - Factiva, internal archive, web search
