{"id":544,"date":"2011-11-13T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wordpress\/?p=544"},"modified":"2020-04-05T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T21:28:06","slug":"aside-bar-from-the-editor-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/aside-bar-from-the-editor-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside Bar &#8211; From the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it November already? I am already feeling left behind by whirls of activity and the holidays are not yet upon us. <\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t just mean in my personal life. Professionally, I&#8217;m feeling as if the rest of the world is moving on without me while I&#8217;m putting out the fire of the day (or <em>fires<\/em>, on some days) and not making any headway on the pile of archiving on my desk and other tasks on my to-do list.<\/p>\n<p>Are the days moving faster? Am I moving slower?<\/p>\n<p>How do I push my way back out front of the rush? I don&#8217;t like to say no to a reasonable request because that just discourages reporters and editors from asking the next time. Plus, as a colleague on our online staff said the other day: no one has free time for anything anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Am I less thorough in my work? Sorry, but this is a definite <strong>no<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Do I hand off work to a colleague? As I mentioned earlier, no one else has free time either &#8212; and we all have backlogs. I am doing more push back, as in getting a reporter to a certain point and having him or her make the phone calls. Plus, when I&#8217;m the only one who knows the best ways to soothe a savage archive, I have no choice but to pull the burr from the tiger&#8217;s paw myself. But having unique skills has its own rewards.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been trying to embrace the backlog. 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