you know that scene in “the jerk” when the new phonebook arrives and navin johnson sees his name in print for the first time? i just had that kind of a moment here in my office when i discovered that i have an entry in the library of congress’s name authority file. doesn’t get much library geekier than that!
Ooh, lookit! I just got this alert in my e-mail and I’m excited to share with you that I’m presenting a Springer Lunch & Learn session at the upcoming ALA Midwinter conference, in Seattle, WA. I’ll be talking about the basics of marketing for e-content, what I’ve seen libraries do to market their electronic resources, and get you all PUMPED UP to develop your own marketing plan. Join us? Register at http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1182070.
Many thanks to Springer for giving me the opportunity to talk about a topic I really love.
I was delighted to find out that I have been named one of the 2013 cohort of LMU’s Senior Vice President Fellows Program. It’s designed to let us “explore how leaders in colleges and universities exercise constructive influence to help institutions achieve their mission and goals.” I’m in a group of five fellows, and paired with our Senior VP mentors, we total ten. We’ll be meeting and traveling together throughout the year, reading quite a bit. There are a couple of mini-retreats each month, with themes like “inclusive colleges and universities,” “leadership epistemology.” I’m honored to be part of this group and will enjoy working with my mentor, the university’s CFO. I’ll be doing this in addition to my regular duties at the library. Time management, FTW!
At my eye exam yesterday I mentioned that I’ve started to hold my phone at a little bit of a distance now when I text, so I was instructed to get a pair of glasses to use when I read (“cheaters”). That should really come in handy with all the reading I’m about to embark on with this fellowship program. Our first mini-retreat is at the end of January; required reading is four articles and two book chapters.
RSS has enabled me to read more widely than ever, allowing me to view tables of contents of all different kinds of scholarly journals and blogs. i’ve added a bunch to my RSS feeds about management and leadership in the last couple years, as i begin to think about my future place in librarianship. this delightful technology has allowed me to fill my google reader account with more than fifty feeds that i’ve organized into a folder titled “scholarship.” life gets busy, you know, and i’ll sometimes look at my google reader and there will be hundreds of entries waiting to be read. it’s overwhelming. “declaring RSS bankruptcy” is a real thing, and i’ve been prompted more than once to click on “mark all as read,” and just wait for the google reader to fill up all over again. that approach is pretty common, i’d guess, and it doesn’t really help me stay on top of what i really want to be informed about. i’ve created a little cheater folder to help myself.
i titled a new folder called ” * MUST READ scholarship” and put the ten RSS feeds for journals/blogs i can’t live without into that folder. because the folder title begins with an asterisk it is the very top folder in my google reader, which means i see it first when i go into the reader. if there’s content there, i read it and feel like i’m current with what i absolutely want to know about. if i have time then i’ll head over to my regular “scholarship” folder and read through the other forty or so journals/blogs.
it’s a small thing, for sure, but it’s really helped me manage what was quickly becoming a depressing situation.
if you have tips/tricks for how you manage the wealth of literature reading possibilities, please share in a comment.
Yep, he’s for real and he’s adorable: @IkeaMonkey
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/crime/article/1299804–monkey-found-on-the-loose-at-north-york-ikea-store
UPDATE 12/10/2012: memes collide at http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ikea-monkey
