Doodle
gel pen on steno pad
We had another training session today for GL3.1. What is GL3.1, you ask? GL3.1 is a royal pain in my ass, that’s what GL3.1 is. It’s the latest version of our cataloging system, and the most drastic upgrade the company has made since I began working in the program in, I believe, 1999. Supposedly, the newest changes were made in an effort to make the program ADA compliant. I don’t see how that’s possible, though. Aside from adding the ability to change the background colors, none of the other new GUI tweaks are actually usable. As in, we can, in theory, change our fonts, but in actuality, doing so will screw up diacritics. And, when in the previous version something could be accomplished with one click, it now takes about 20. I’m not exaggerating, either. One of my coworkers kept track today, and to import a record from OCLC and finish cataloging it, she had to make 70+ clicks. That’s ridiculous! But hey, we get pretty colors to compensate, right?
So today was our, supposedly, final training session. Of course, we’ve only been cataloging in the new system for the past month. Better late than never, I guess. Even with doodling to keep me focused, I started to glaze over about an hour into it.
red paper boat 