The program for the talk next week appears to have changed. In further discussion with the organizer, it seems like someone else gets to do the “Hey, look at all this neat stuff!” talk. My talk will be much more along the lines of “Look at what we’re doing at…
I’ve been tapped to give a 1.5-2 hour presentation to a group of Alaskan public library directors. (This sounds very impressive for a newbie librarian, but here’s the full disclosure: their original half-day speaker had to cancel, and then their backup speaker also canceled. Now there are several local librarians…
It’s been almost a year since I started—more than a year since I got to Alaska. That’s kind of crazy, right? I’ve already turned in my activity report for the year, listing my various accomplishments, and pretty soon my department head will write an evaluation for me, leading to a…
I know I owe some posts about learning the things a new librarian learns. I do. It turns out, being a new librarian takes up enough time that blogging about it seems excessive. (Go figure.) That said, I did find the time to write an article for NMRT Footnotes about…
Pittsburgh to Anchorage is a long trip—4202.6 miles, to be precise—and I spent pretty much that whole time and, to be honest, the bulk of my first couple of weeks in Alaska willfully ignorant of what was happening in the library world. I marked my RSS feeds “read,” ignored my…
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ll soon be driving to Alaska to start my first post-MLIS job. That means very little blogging, here, for at least two weeks. (I’ll try to blog every day or so at my blog about the move.) But if 1) I don’t pull together the blog…
One project stands between me and full librarian status! (Unless you’re one of those sticklers who thinks you have to have some number of years in the field, first. But my title, once I start work, will be both Assistant Professor of Library Science and Web Services Librarian–I hope I…
I’m blogging the move to Alaska: http://movingtoalaska.wordpress.com If you’re more the RSS type, click here to go right to the feed. (You’ll miss my cool map, though!)
I have a job! (As in, I received and signed an official, printed, mailed job offer today, which I plan to photocopy and mail back tomorrow.) But it’s not just any job—it’s precisely the kind of job I wanted to be doing, at a dynamic library, in a beautiful city,…