Done now. Ready for a drink and sit down.

Arrived in plenty of time and found a cafe to sit in for a while. Eventually presented myself at the Library with 15 minutes in hand. Noticed they had a list of six candidates. It must be a national standard or something.

Waiting outside their newly refurbished cafe, there were tables, computer stations and the kind of comfy chair our place seems completely unable to do. Someone else in a suit appeared and I could immediately guess he was another candidate even before he pulled out university logo headed paper. As he parked his anorak on the back of his chair and buried in his head in his papers, I was both glad I'd left my coat behind and out of the way as well as surprised at how relaxed I (almost) felt. Or was it just the sheer inadequacy of any preparation at this stage?

Barbara arrived to give me a 20 minute tour which was fine before ushering me into the workroom of the subject team I'd be working with. Five of them there (though one had to leave immediately) to sit and talk with and ask questions of. A useful and interesting addition to the process, though not without it's own stress.

Twenty minutes or more of that before being ushered into the secretary's workroom for a few minutes and then into the Head Librarian's office. Head librarian, deputy, subject group leader and an academic from faculty all on the panel. Each taking a block of questions, the whole thing lasting an hour. While hardly calm, I was reasonably relaxed and felt able to answer all their questions. Some perhaps more easily and coherently than others, but none felt as though they were a disaster. I probably did about as well as I was likely to do in the face of some difficult questions. If S's help on the form got me the interview, D's help with question practice certainly helped now.

Nothing more I can do now. Expect to hear as soon as they know the Head said. It only remained to locate - after a somewhat circuitous route - human resources and drop off the paper work they required and head back to work.

Now where's that drink?