So it's finally happened, they finally got me. I ended up fancy photocopying and shelving things - the work experience double.

My supervisor is away sunning herself in Morocco but she left me a task to be getting on with. I had to work my way through a list of journals, searching them on the Wiley Online Library, printing off the editorial board, scanning it and saving the PDF in a special file for the infamous Sheila, whoever Sheila is.

It wasn't the most inspiring of tasks but I did get to play on the super-duper, space age printer that knew who I was and could email me things. Silver-lining hey. And then when I finished my reward was shelving past editions of journals - woo!

But the day wasn't entirely spent printing and filing. Wiley have kindly organised

Yesterday was an important day for book lovers everywhere as the list of books for World Book Night 2013 and the shortlist for the Guardian First Book Awards were announced.

There's a real mix of titles on both lists but unfortunately I haven't read any of them, yet, but I am going to set myself the challenge of reading as many of the World Book Night books as I can before the big day in April next year.

To see who made it onto the lists and to set your own challenges (if you want of course) visit the World Book Night website and check out the Guardian.

Tonight was the second of three publishing seminars put on by the University. This evenings speaker was Matt Kibble from Bloomsbury, previously of ProQuest, who came to talk about working in the fabulous world of digital publishing.

He took us through his various job titles over the past 12 years and what his roles actually involved as well as explaining what goes into a company who provide digital content for the academic library market (JSTOR for example).

He explained how his role was a mix of market research, rights negotiations, project management and presenting financial business plans. He basically does a bit of everything as he sees the projects through from start to finish. For example he was telling us how he was involved in creating a digital archive of Vogue for academic library use and how he had been involved in every step from getting initial permissions to organising the launch of the final product.

And you don't have to be particularly techy to get into this kind of work. As long as you know what other people are doing and can talk about it you don't actually have to do any of the techy stuff yourself, as Matt proved by explaining his background as an academic.

The main thing I took away from this talk is how un-established this sector of publishing is. Matt talked about the problems in terminology and definitions within his work because it is a hybrid market that is not quite publishing and not quite product management but a mash up of the two. So all the roles within this industry haven't been defined yet and are constantly developing and people are having to adapt - something perhaps shown most when Matt could not answer a question about what qualities people looking to go into the industry require. He didn't know because nothing has been established long enough to become the rule yet.

So yes very interesting to learn about all the hybrid

Day 3 and half term lack of traffic means we were there super early and therefore in time for a cooked breakfast again. Revelation of the day was when my friend commented that her toast "tastes like Chinese food, but in a good way" before being told she was eating fried bread, which she had buttered.

Cholesterol overload done and we got to work. As usual I started my day working through the recent submissions to the Journal of Small Animal Practice checking that the articles are in the right format and that authors have been correctly credited. I like starting my day like this as it suggests that they have a level of confidence in me that they trust me to just get on with it.

After I had finished this I embarked on an epic new task. I was asked to research existing open access veterinary journals and create a spreadsheet containing the information. So it had happened. I had finally been given the dreaded spreadsheet task that every intern dreads.

But whereas previously I have felt I've been given the spreadsheet task, normally updating contact information, just to keep me busy, this time I felt I was actually helping as my supervisor explained in detail what it was for. I felt like I was being trusted with a useful task again and was able to happily work away on the spreadsheet for the rest of the day, although I barely made a dent in the number of journals that need researching.

So I'm looking forward to my next day with Wiley, especially because they have kindly organised a range of talks for the work experience people over the next few weeks that explain a variety of interesting topics relevant for what Wiley does. Hopefully I will learn a lot from them and from my supervisor.