tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40618708490314685812024-02-25T03:32:04.854-05:00Letters to a Young LibrarianAdvice to those who are new (or even not so new) to librarianship from someone who has been doing this work for a while now.Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.comBlogger652125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-22159734025894812822019-08-20T11:36:00.000-04:002019-08-20T11:36:18.087-04:00So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I wanted to believe that I had the head space to keep working on this blog when I published the last post. I thought if I published less frequently or something that I'd be able to sneak it in. But things haven't slowed down at all since early July, and there are a lot of things competing for my time and attention. My priorities have changed.<br />
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I need to express my thanks, regardless. I have gotten so much from the time I've spent on this blog. The relationships I developed would have been enough to be worth all the work, but it's no exaggeration to say that this blog changed my career and life. I will forever be grateful for your attention and support as I've worked through topic after topic. Also, all the guest authors who willingly gave me their time and thoughts have blown me away with their generosity. It was an amazing experience and an honor to run this blog.<br />
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All of this is to say that I'm not going to be updating <i>LtaYL </i>anymore, not for the foreseeable future anyway. I'm going to leave it up because the breadth of coverage is important. Also, there are posts that still get hits on the regs. But that's all from me.<br />
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So... so long, and thanks for all the fish (and trash). I may be back, but probably not for a long while.</div>
Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-83796887152903582942019-07-09T09:21:00.004-04:002019-07-10T10:39:54.603-04:00Changes, Big and Small<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This hiatus went on longer than I anticipated, but a lot of stuff came up for me personally and professionally that kept pulling my focus from this shouty little blog of mine. I even thought for a while about shutting down <i>Letters to a Young Librarian</i>. Then a few people said something about how they originally followed me on Twitter because they appreciated my voice on such a range of topics on my blog, and how they appreciated that I gave a platform to so many different kinds of library people. I also thought about how much joy I've gotten from this work (even if it's become more work than joy at times). And so, instead, I have decided to slightly rework how <i>LtaYL </i>functions.<br />
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First, I know I've been sitting on a few things that people have sent to me that were supposed to be on this blog a while ago. I'm going to reach out to everyone who submitted something to me that has not yet been published. I want to see if they're still interested in publishing those pieces over here.<br />
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Second, I'm going to significantly reduce how much gets published. Right now I'm thinking a piece every other week, with something from me in the mix every other month or so. This is a compromise between completely abandoning this soapbox of mine that has been a labor of love for so long and keeping going at my former pace.<br />
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Third, moving forward, I want this to be more of a platform for other voices than my own. <br />
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The tone will be the same; the subject matter will also be the same. Just a change of focus of who and how often.<br />
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So, what do you all think? I really want to know.<br />
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Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-257350741331051252019-05-07T09:01:00.002-04:002019-05-07T09:01:48.880-04:00Another Hiatus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Y'all, I have too many <a href="https://jenrose.com/fork-theory/">forks</a> and not enough
<a href="https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/">spoons</a> so this blog is gonna be on hiatus for the rest of May and maybe into June. Thanks for your understanding.<br />
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Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-26478477030692540822019-04-25T11:27:00.000-04:002019-04-25T11:27:35.848-04:00Interview Post: Violet Fox<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d9bd9d6d-7fff-766c-93d6-7da514dfd1ed" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As of June 2018, I work for OCLC as one of the editors of the Dewey Decimal Classification.</span></span><span></span></span></span><br />
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long have you been in the field?</span></b><span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-22c2fad5-7fff-c678-09c8-5335b8bb2726" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I started working as a library student worker in 1995 and worked as a paraprofessional for seven years, but I was outside of libraries for a while (buy me a drink and ask me about my job as an internet content moderator). I got my MLIS in 2013 from the University of Washington iSchool.</span></span><span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8bd51082-7fff-0d15-424f-f6cc1a23ac31" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Dewey editorial team has been working at the Library of Congress since 1932, so in keeping with that tradition I work at LC, but in not the fancy Jefferson building</span><span style="background: white;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">—</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the boring building next door. I keep my cubicle pretty sparse. The two computers reflect the two organizations I work within: one belongs to OCLC, the other to LC.</span></span></span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">How do you organize your days?</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
I use handwritten lists on scratch paper for daily tasks, color-coded Google
calendar entries for longer term tasks, and text documents for ideas for future
projects.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">The </span><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Pomodoro Technique</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> is a
lifesaver.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What do you spend most of your time doing?</span></b><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">There’s a lot of research, especially researching topics that
potentially need revision in the DDC schedules: recent subjects I’ve
investigated include sewage systems, coloring books, eunuchs, and BASE jumping.
The editorial team is only four people, so we work closely together to review
each other’s work and bounce ideas off each other. I’m still learning the ins
and outs of the editorial rules that govern the development of the DDC, so I
refer to those frequently.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What is a typical day like for you?</span></b><span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Things I might do in a typical day: answer a question from a
Dewey user, review another editor’s work, research one of my own projects,
investigate the history of a particular Dewey number, reach out to one of our
international partners for suggestions on how to address a particular problem.
Sort through email. Lots of phone/video meetings, since my boss and most of my
coworkers work in Ohio. I often have lunch or a coffee break with someone from
LC; it’s difficult to get to know anyone outside my tiny department, so I try
to be intentional about reaching out and making connections.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What are you reading right now?</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
I recently finished </span><span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/449866659"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">Naming
Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science</span></i></a><i><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></i><span style="color: #222222;">by Carol Kaesuk
Yoon. I’ve been reading a lot about classification in a variety of fields;
Yoon’s book is a popular science discussion of the history of scientific
taxonomy and how it differs from folk taxonomy.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">I just started </span><span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/951423993"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">The
Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia</span></i></a><span style="color: #222222;"> by Michael Booth. Work is sending me to Stockholm &
Oslo next month for a conference and it’ll be my first time overseas, so I’m
reading up to alleviate some anxiety about that.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">I’ve outsourced all my memory of books I’ve read to </span><span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1857832-violet"><span style="color: #1155cc;">my GoodReads account</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">,
which leads to moments of panic as I totally blank when anyone asks what I’ve
been reading.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What's the best professional advice you've ever received?</span></b><span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">I’ve heard Dr. Nicole Cooke (</span><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://twitter.com/LibraryNicole"><span style="color: #1155cc;">@LibraryNicole</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222;">) speak a few times and have walked away energized and inspired
by her focus on figuring out what you want your legacy to be. Reflecting on
that periodically helps me focus my energy on the things that matter to me
(e.g., making the case for the value of metadata, being encouraging to new
library folks, bringing transparency to my work).</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><b><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></b><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What have you found yourself doing at work that you never
expected?</span></b><span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Defending Dewey (the classification, not the man)</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u><span style="color: #222222;">Inside the Library Studio</span></u></b><span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What is your favorite word?</span></b><span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">I love learning new color words. Recent favorites are corbeau (a
very dark shade of green, almost black) and </span><span><a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/13/eau-de-nil-light-green-color-egypt-obsessed-europe/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">eau de Nil</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> (a pale
green).</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br />
<b><span style="color: #222222;">What is your least favorite word?</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Every single word that comes out of the mouth of the man
currently living in the White House.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What profession other than your own would you love to attempt?</span></b><span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Throughout the years I’ve taken a few personality tests that
suggest likely careers based on my temperament. Usually number two is
librarian, and for whatever reason, number one is always X-ray technician. So I
should probably give that a go if this library thing doesn’t work out.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What profession would you never want to attempt?</span></b><span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Marketing.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u><span style="color: #222222;">Everything Else</span></u></b><span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What superpower do you wish you had?</span></b><span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Just the regular power of not having to struggle with
depression. That’d be neat.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222;">What are you most proud of in your career?</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Whatever I’ve been able to contribute towards building
communities of generous and compassionate people in the overlapping circles of
librarianship that I inhabit.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">If you're willing to share, tell about a
mistake you made on the job.</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
Honestly, I don’t even<span style="background: white;">—</span>where would I
start? I’ve had entire jobs that were mistakes. </span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Most of my mistakes are the result of procrastinating, which is
absolutely my worst trait<span style="background: white;">. Not wasting time
putting off small tasks is the life lesson I never seem to learn</span>.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222;">When you aren't at work, what are you likely
doing?</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Often organizing zine librarian stuff or, occasionally, critlib
stuff. Occasionally writing </span><span><a href="http://violetbfox.info/library-history/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Wikipedia
articles</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">. Thinking about the next issue
of my zine about roadside attractions. Sending snail mail. I moved halfway
across the country for this job, so a good amount of my time is spent traveling
to visit my spouse, or counting the days until our next visit.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222;">Who else would you like to see answer these
questions?</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">A few of the amazing folks from my grad school cohort: Alyssa
Jocson-Porter (</span><span><a href="https://twitter.com/itsuhLEEsuh"><span style="color: #1155cc;">@itsuhLEEsuh</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">), Elizabeth Brookbank (</span><a href="https://twitter.com/elizabethbrookb"><span style="color: blue;">@elizabethbrookb</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">), and Eli Gandour-Rood (</span><a href="https://twitter.com/eliganrood"><span style="color: #1155cc;">@eliganrood</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">).</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: black;">Violet tweets at </span></i><span><a href="https://twitter.com/violetbfox"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">@violetbfox</span></i></a><i><span style="color: black;">.</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-10242533157239600272019-04-18T10:26:00.000-04:002019-04-18T11:30:53.390-04:00Teach Yourself Twine: How to Create a Catalog Search and LC Call Number Review Game, by Jillian Sandy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">My problem was this:
after depending on a shelving tutorial borrowed from another institution for
training purposes, suddenly the URL changed or the site no longer hosted this
excellent (and free) resource. I thought I’d never have the time or the coding
skills to make my tutorial. I was so wrong. I ended up creating a fun,
low-stakes game that helped student employees a way to practice catalog
searches and using the Library of Congress system, and I want to share with
you!</span><span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br />
<span style="color: black;">The game additionally allows student employees to
further explore catalog searching and to nudge them toward using the catalog to
search for books--I created this game at the University of Dayton, where the
default search option is UDiscover (OneSearch at many institutions), a tool we
do not recommend for looking up books.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br />
<span style="color: black;">If you’d like to do something similar, here’s how:
you will need to choose a free, relatively easy-to-use platform. I recommend </span><a href="http://twinery.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Twine</span></a><span style="color: black;">, open-source
software created to build interactive stories. Though you can use this
in-browser, I would recommend downloading the program for Windows, Mac, or
Linux. You’ll have a lot more storage space for your game this way--important
if you’d like to include adorable pictures of cats, gifs, or video to add some
visual appeal.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Twine very easily lets you create a beginning and end
to your game. You can also link pages to each other--for example, the pages
student employees will see when they answer a question correctly or
incorrectly, as well as links to the next question on their adventure.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Now for that pesky coding part of the process. You
will need to do some coding to change font and image sizes, and perhaps to add
images or create links (for example, when giving attribution for images). The
good news: you can Google all of these things! I have very little experience
with coding and managed to create this game--you can too!</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br />
<span style="color: black;">One additional consideration with Twine is the use of
images; first, you will need to find images that are out of the public domain,
licensed by Creative Commons, or otherwise unencumbered by copyright
restrictions. I found many images requiring attribution only at </span><a href="https://www.vecteezy.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Vecteezy</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://pixabay.com/en/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Pixabay</span></a><span style="color: black;">. I also like </span><a href="https://unsplash.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Unsplash</span></a><span style="color: black;"> for this kind of thing.</span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Unlike a blog or another site where you can upload
images, images in Twine will need to be encoded. Again, you’re in luck--there
are many sites where you can encode images for free! ou will need to turn your
image into a rather lengthy line of code. I used a site called </span><a href="https://www.base64-image.de/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Base
64</span></a><span style="color: black;">, which allows you to drag and drop
images to transform into code. Below is an example of an image and the
beginning of its code.</span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Another option in
lieu of images are gifs. On sites like </span><span><a href="https://giphy.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Giphy</span></a><span style="color: black;">, the embed code is provided! All you need to do is copy
and paste the embed code and the whole ordeal of encoding images can be avoided. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">When you have
completed your game, you can export the file as an HTML file. This will lead to
another consideration: hosting. Luckily, there are several places where you can
host your Twine creation with no cost. I use </span><span><a href="http://philome.la/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Philome.la</span></a><span style="color: black;">, which does require a Twitter account to sign up. If you
do have an account, you will simply upload the HTML file you have created. No
need to worry about the URL changing or the content suddenly disappearing! Be
aware that you cannot change your game once you’ve uploaded it; if you need to
make changes, you will need to edit the HTML in Twine and then re-upload as a
new game (with a new URL). </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The game I created is
pretty low key, requiring student employees only to complete the game and print
or screenshot their “Purr-tificate of Completion.” However, the </span><span><a href="https://twinery.org/cookbook/playerstatistics/harlowe/harlowe_player_statistics.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Twine
Cookbook</span></a><span style="color: black;"> does outline the process of
adding or subtracting points based on student responses (and provides some
other helpful codes). Using a points system does provide an assessment tool for
the game, though may feel more like a test to students than the interactive
practice game I set out to make. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">In addition to
training for student employees, I see the potential of this activity to be used
as pre-work for library instruction sessions. Covering some search strategies
ahead of time could give librarians more time to dive into information literacy
concepts during class. </span><span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">If you’re feeling
adventurous, play the game here:</span><span style="color: #1155cc;"> </span><span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><a href="http://philome.la/JSandcat/searching-ud-catalog-a-roesch-library-adventure" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://philome.la/JSandcat/searching-ud-catalog-a-roesch-library-adventure</span></a><span style="color: black;">. You may need to search the UD Catalog to avoid any
negative consequences from the game’s disgruntled cats: </span><a href="http://flyers.udayton.edu/search/X" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://flyers.udayton.edu/search/X</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span> (I've had some problems with Twine going down
temporarily every now and then...but since it's free I have made do.I also have
it hosted on Text Adventures here:<i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><a href="https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/aSyZJWezq0qdEwErOY11BQ/searching-the-ud-catalog-a-roesch-library-adventure">https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/aSyZJWezq0qdEwErOY11BQ/searching-the-ud-catalog-a-roesch-library-adventure</a>)<i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: black;">Jillian
Sandy is a Visiting Research & Instruction Librarian at St. Mary’s College
of Maryland. She can be reached at jssandy at smcm dot edu. Find many pictures
of her cat on Instagram as </span></i><span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jsheilas/" style="text-decoration: none;"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">jsheilas</span></i></a><i><span style="color: black;">.</span></i></span></span></span><br />
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Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-57941819534679960322019-04-16T15:21:00.000-04:002019-04-16T15:21:31.579-04:00One on One Meetings with Library Faculty and Staff<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The most valuable thing we all have is time. As a mid-level administrator, my time is definitely at a premium with all the meetings I have that take me out of the library. And yet, I make sure to take time to meet one-on-one with every single person who works for me regularly. For those of you who may not know this, I'm the director of library services at a small/medium community college, and I have 17 direct reports according to the organizational chart. Yes, you read that right - 17. Sure, that's a lot of meetings, but it's important to me.<br />
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It's so important to me that I meet with everyone at least monthly, but more often if they'd prefer. So far, it's turned out that I meet with 3 of the people who work in the library on a weekly basis, 1 person bi-weekly, and everyone else monthly. Now, to be clear, these are the formal, sit down in a room with the door closed so we won't be interrupted kind of meetings. I have plenty of impromptu meetings and try to be as available as possible. But I sit down with everyone at least once a month.<br />
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Why do I do this? Let me say right away that it is not so I can be a control freak. I do not micromanage (well, mostly I don't - <a href="https://twitter.com/olinj/status/1116789945111392256">I do get a little huffy about self-care and trying to encourage work/life balance</a>). It's because I want to know what's going on so I can be as helpful and supportive as possible. It's also because I want to make sure I have face time with everyone. Sure, I have opportunities to talk with full time library faculty and staff on a regular basis, but I really don't have that with part time people - with the exception of the adjunct librarian with whom I do my weekly reference desk shift. So these meetings are a way for me to give my time and attention, but they are also selfish because I wouldn't get a chance to talk with lots of my direct reports otherwise.<br />
<br />And what happens in these meetings? Well, that depends on who is in the meeting and what's going on in the library and at the college. These meetings are usually very informal, with shared responsibility for agenda items. I aim to have my agenda items to people ahead of time, but I fail way more often than I accomplish this. I definitely give time to think if it's a thinking thing. Some topics that come up on a regular basis:<br />
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The way I see it, it's my job to make things go smoothly for everyone who works in the library since they are the ones taking care of our patrons directly. I can't do that if I don't know what's going on, and everyone has a different perspective in the library.</div>
Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-2243067729466455832019-04-09T15:29:00.000-04:002019-04-09T15:33:45.991-04:00National Library Workers Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've said it before and I'll say it again: my job, as an administrator, is to make things good for my direct reports. One of the simplest ways I can do that is to occasionally let them know how much I appreciate the work they do. I get everyone a little something for the winter gift-giving season, speak up about their successes in broader meetings, bring macarons regularly, and so on. One thing I've done every year since becoming an administrator is to acknowledge National Library Workers Day. I've also started trying to remind others:<br />
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Hey, fellow library administration types - Library Workers' Day is a week from tomorrow. In case you want to do something nice for your direct reports. (Doesn't have to be big, but I know I always appreciated feeling appreciated.) <a href="https://t.co/gCHOJ0kz1X">pic.twitter.com/gCHOJ0kz1X</a></div>
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The thing is, you don't have to spend a lot of money to do this. Last year I bought everyone a zipper pull that says "READ" and this year, I bought everyone cute magnetic bookmarks I found on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/CutieLine?ref=ss_profile">Etsy</a>.<br />
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I also made cards for everyone! (For the record, I wrote individual messages to accompany the Target gift cards everyone got for the winter gifty. It's not always a one size fits all approach.)<br />
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The important thing is to mix it up. I have a lot of variety in dietary restrictions and preferences among the staff. It's easy to get gluten free macarons, but I also have someone who works for me who is vegan. I probably do overdo it with the cute things (I gotta be me), but even that balances out with highly practical Target gift card. Even the Target gift card was a thing that took conversation and consideration to pick. It's the one store in the area to which everyone has access, and I asked a few people for feedback before the first time I did it.<br />
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The gifts I give are never expensive, and I make sure to balance them out with real and specific praise for people's strengths and triumphs, but National Library Workers Day is an important holiday in my part of the world and I suggest other library administrators celebrate it in some way if they can.</div>
Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-29846834159850191312019-04-04T11:43:00.000-04:002019-04-04T11:43:21.236-04:00Just for Fun: Cute Gifs Galore<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
First, the G in "gif" is pronounced like the G in "girl".<br />
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Second, thought I'd take this just for fun post and share some of my favorite and most used (perhaps abused?) gifs. Just a quick little fun post to serve as a respite before you plunge back into the void that is contemporary culture. Also, I feel the need to balance the heavy post I published earlier this week.<br />
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Not feeling sure of yourself? This cat knows that feel.<br />
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Feeling exceptionally sure of yourself? Like you could take on a monster many many times bigger than you? This cat is right there with you.</div>
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So excited about something good that you can't stand it? Monsieur Wigglebutt is on your wavelength.<br />
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Feeling the opposite? Hate the entire world? Here's a different kind of canine who agrees 100%.<br />
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I hope this string of relatively nonsensical gifs has put a smile on your face. If you need more cute, please remember I have a <a href="https://pinboard.in/u:LibrarianJessica/t:InCaseofEmergency/">semi-curated collection of cute and distracting gifs over on my Pinboard</a> account, ready at a moment's notice to help you find a smile.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>[<i>Editor's Note: This post is good reading for anybody in charge of something, not just for those just out of their graduate programs who are unexpectedly put in charge of something.</i>] </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>After
finishing library school, I accepted the first job offer I received as an
academic subject liaison. I soon found out, however, that a major part of the
job was not quite clear in the official position description—after a short,
9-month training period as co-manager, I would become the sole manager of an
academic branch library with 8.5 full-time positions and around 20 part-time student
workers. All of the full-time staff were older than I was, and some had been
working at that location for over 20 years. While I would not wish a similar
situation on other recent graduates, I gained valuable experience. Should you
find yourself as an unexpected manager, here are 8 key lessons I learned:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>1. Spend time listening. </span></b><span>When
learning about your new organization, listen more than talk. Acknowledge staff
members’ feelings, strengths of the current way of doing things, changes
desired by staff, and feedback about your new management.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>2.</span></b><span> <b>Remember that</b> <b>change takes
time</b>. Ingrained procedures are not always a bad thing, but sometimes it is
important to revisit why a procedure or policy was adopted and assess whether
the conditions that led to its adoption are still the same. Try to frame
discussions in terms such as “let’s think about this another way” or “I’ve
heard it is done differently elsewhere…what do you think?” instead of “now
we’re going to do it my way.” When change is needed, make sure all the
stakeholders are consulted and find ways to honor the past while forging ahead.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>3. Learn to translate others’ productivity for supervisees
and supervisors. </span></b><span>Because each member of your team has
a different function and area of expertise, communicating work accomplishments to
each other can be difficult. Most people want to do their job well, but conflicts
between staff can arise when one person’s idea of “well” is different from
their coworkers' or your ideas. Because of this, you may need to explain a staff
member’s output to their coworkers. If an employee really is not working up to
par, translate what the employee is doing (or not doing) to your supervisor, and
allow the underperforming staff member to supply their own perspective. You are
not exempt from reporting, so find ways to communicate the work you are doing
to your staff, also. For instance, I both produced and requested monthly
reports. Finally, praise your staff in public and private for what they do
well.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>4. Run meetings efficiently</span></b><span>. People want to feel that their opinions and concerns are
heard, but they do not want their time wasted. Here are some strategies I used:</span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span>Make an agenda, invite new agenda
items well before the meeting, and during the meeting keep to the agenda as
much as possible.<span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span>Have someone (besides you) take
notes and archive these notes in a shared drive</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span>Follow up on unfinished items from
past meetings.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Keep announcements brief and make as
many as you can via email outside of the meeting.<span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span>Keep the tone light and fun (by
making on-topic but not demeaning jokes or acknowledging a situation’s humor), while
still keeping the meeting brief.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Make sure everyone understands what
decisions have been made.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Avoid doing creative things, such as
writing or workflow analysis, in a meeting.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Instead, use the meeting to gather
opinions on writing or workflows that have been drafted already outside of the
meeting.<span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span>Everyone enjoys an early dismissal
or even a cancelled meeting—but do not overuse these options.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>5. Make connections with your staff.</span></b><span> Keep relationships professional, but also find out what
makes your staff tick. Sometimes you can use staff members’ hobbies or
interests to enhance the library’s offerings or collections. Relying on staff
members’ unique expertise helps them feel needed, too.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>6. Keep good notes.</span></b><span>
When juggling management of many people doing many different tasks, it is easy
to forget what happened even a few days ago. Keep a paper trail of meetings,
conversations, and decisions. For instance, when you make an assignment orally,
confirm the assignment in an email. You never know when you will need to review
decisions again or remind someone of an assignment.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>7. Be smart about delegating.</span></b><span> My staff had a lot of experience doing their jobs, and I
tried not to stop them from using that experience. Most of the time, they could
perform their jobs skillfully without my intervention, so I kept out of their
way. If someone had expertise in a certain area, I would assign tasks in that
area to them instead of tackling them myself. However, when the staff looked
for me for leadership, I prioritized learning about and dealing with the
relevant issues.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>8. Set
boundaries for yourself</span></b><span>. In almost any professional
library position, there is more work than one person can possibly complete;
this can be an even more acute problem for a first-time manager. Instead of working
yourself to burnout, stick to a reasonable work schedule with only occasional
extended hours. Include a dedicated lunch break in your schedule.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span><span></span><i>Peter Shirts is a little less stressed than he used to be, now working as the Music Librarian at Emory University. He shares occasional musical thoughts at <a class="m_-5672991799011393234OWAAutoLink" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.signifyingsoundandfury.com&source=gmail&ust=1551449100134000&usg=AFQjCNHQ8UZas1PtE8bM1o9vfFb2B4vs9g" href="http://www.signifyingsoundandfury.com/" id="m_-5672991799011393234LPlnk531714" target="_blank"> www.signifyingsoundandfury.com</a> and on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/SignifyingSound">@SignifyingSound</a>.</i></span></span><br />
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Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-38612349128696103912019-02-26T09:07:00.000-05:002019-02-26T09:07:01.926-05:00Any Topic Requests?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you've been following this blog, you know I get tapped out for ideas every once in a while, then something comes along and I suddenly have a surfeit of ideas. I've got a few things lined up that I can't publish just yet, for a few
reasons, so I'm going to use this week to ask if anyone has anything
they'd like me to write. But I need your help to get over the hump, the dry spell, the idea desert I'm currently inhabiting.<br />
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Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-79433796153352207422019-02-21T15:08:00.000-05:002019-02-21T15:08:30.895-05:00Interview Post: Bryony Jane Ramsden<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Biographical</span></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2e5790de-7fff-1f43-e5ba-874db60476ce" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bryony Jane Ramsden</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Current job?</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-512f93bb-7fff-4bff-177e-a3051dae14de" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Subject Librarian for Human and Health Sciences at the University of Huddersfield. I mostly look after students in nursing and allied health professions, but as the other health librarian and myself are both part time, we provide support according to what day somebody needs help! My role has changed this academic year though, as I’ve been given a user experience role (brand new to our library).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How long have you been in the field?</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-76743e21-7fff-8605-6145-9f6d22f5d87b" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What feels like a LONG time! I have that common tale where I got a shelving job at the local public library when I was an undergrad, and liked working in the environment and the nature of the interactions so much I ended up working towards qualification. So, if you count when I started my shelving job, I’d say around 19-20 years. That IS a long time, then!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6c42ef0-7fff-bccd-886f-4d15b55a1b26" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have an office for all the subject and academic librarians and all the subject assistants, around 20 of us altogether, with our own personal desks. My desk is like my house, a personalised, organised mess – I know EXACTLY where everything is, even if it doesn’t look like that! We used to live in separate subject-related offices, but they were gradually removed to be (rightly) dedicated to student use instead. I don’t always manage to work very well when it gets busy and noisy, but I love working with everyone here. We have a good team.</span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ba5eb607-7fff-6719-ff0b-40afe2defda9" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thinking about it, today is probably the first day I’ve had a chance to organise my day because I’ve been so busy this last term! They are generally split between meetings in the school for course committees and student panels, appointments with students or academics [</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Editor’s Note</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I believe that translates to “faculty” for those of us in the US.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">], providing training for information skills (plus this last couple of months I’ve been running a number of internal UX methods training sessions), and staffing the help desk, although we do that from our office now instead of actually sitting at the desk. But as I wrote this I only had desk duty, and we were winding down for the holidays, I had a to do list of things to sort out before I went on leave.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5a5325e-7fff-a8a9-d50b-6029fb65dddb" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To do lists are the best way for me to keep track and organised, as I can do all the calendar scheduling/planning I want for tasks but if the phone rings or I get an urgent email asking to advise on a tricky query, I could easily end up spending my scheduled time on that instead. We don’t provide a systematic review service for our academics, but academics and higher level students often ask for support on making sure their search strategy is working and is comprehensive/systematic enough. That can be challenging and time consuming, but is just fascinating!</span> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0f3189d2-7fff-e485-d898-f37aee547915" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It depends on the time of year. In term one, mostly inductions and teaching, and then as it gets further in I have a lot of student appointments. In term two, I’ll have a few January-intake classes, but it’s a lot quieter than in September, so I spend more time on student appointments than classes. Once things are calmer in the new year, I willspend more time on revising my teaching content and looking at stock purchasing/editing before the next round of assignments are due in and the course committee meetings and student appointment requests increase again.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ba199fd0-7fff-7f8a-360c-03a99a7e881f" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I just finished </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1028578758" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Hate You Give</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Angie Thomas, which was brilliant, and have moved on to re-reading </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1043197669" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Handmaid’s Tale</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Margaret Atwood, as it’s a long time since I last read it, and I want a reminder before the new book comes out…</span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></span></span></div>
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ever received?</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4a72bd97-7fff-bc60-59ef-fb6b0d12ea38" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ask for forgiveness instead of permission ;-) This isn’t always appropriate, but it works very well a lot of the time, and even then you don’t have to ask for forgiveness that much!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-53a3688e-7fff-31ed-bf49-24672ec8cdb7" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crafting! This is an academic library, so most of my time is spent talking to people about research on wound care and that kind of thing, but we’ve been running regular sessions for anyone to attend where we make things, help people de-stress, and if they want to (they don’t have to) they can ask us library-related questions. All of which means I get to knit and paper craft as part of my job! Yay!</span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-60c8890b-7fff-2aab-b3bb-cacdd4522c8b" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have lots, changing depending on the day, all of which are normal words, but because of the job have grim meanings. Today’s will be crust…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What profession other than your own would you
love to attempt?</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cfdd43fe-7fff-2722-df45-10970a9d5e62" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’d quite like to try working in a baking co-operative like the Handmade Bakery in Slaithwaite. I imagine it can be stressful like any service is, but the idea of making delicious bread and other baked goods in a co-operative environment is appealing.</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #222222;">What profession would you never want to attempt?</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-abce7a54-7fff-9dc4-a1b9-480d6ac24819" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working in a call centre: a thankless task where they get blamed and shouted at for things that aren’t their fault.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-967b240e-7fff-dab2-d60c-58ea9e9b9540" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Incredible physical strength, kind of like Hulk but with a bit less anger.</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222;">What are you most proud of in your career?</span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f57a957b-7fff-2fe6-e91a-ad4783e853b9" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think it’s that my relationship with the students in the school is as strong as it is. Health students are generally encouraged to speak to library staff by their tutors, but they know there are no stupid questions with me.</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222;">If you're willing to share, tell about a mistake
you made on the job.</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b523a35-7fff-8e3f-6bad-364d241986fa" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh good grief, there will be plenty I’ve made! But there is one big one I’d share if I knew I was allowed to! Let’s just say it was many, many years ago, and involved money… In the end it was all fine, and there was nothing we couldn’t fix, and that’s the key thing to remember in a subject librarian role: if you make a mistake, it can almost always be fixed and sorted out.</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222;">When you aren't at work, what are you likely
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-671594cc-7fff-2839-ccb1-89f994abe0a9" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love walking. I live in a beautiful town where the wilds of the moors and the Pennine hills are just on my doorstep. I can make it to work using public transport in 30 mins door to door on a good day, but I can also walk out of my door in the other direction and be in the countryside on foot in 15 minutes. I can’t imagine living anywhere else. I also love making things. Give me some yarn or fibre or some paper and ink/a pile of coloured pens and I’ll be really happy. Having said all that, I also love my PS4...</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222;">Who else would you like to see answer these
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-82657033-7fff-5ead-9b5b-bfda10f6b279" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jessica Haigh</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-86b1c42b-7fff-9ab7-6662-152499714e1a" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bryony tweets at </span><a href="https://twitter.com/librarygirlknit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@librarygirlknit</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span></div>
Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-79772943886199334702019-02-19T12:19:00.001-05:002019-02-19T12:20:18.419-05:00Leaving Facebook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I realized a couple of days before I planned to publish this, that I was writing about something I'd done to preserve my mental health just in time for #lismentalhealth week. How fortuitous! So what did I do to help my peace of mind? I quit Facebook.<br />
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It all started when I read about yet another data breech shortly after reading about how their policies aid the disinformation efforts of foreign governments. I had been spending less and less time there, but that pushed me over into actually leaving. The policies and selling my information and targeted ads and everything, including the smarmy face of Zuckerberg, were finally too much. (I deleted my Instagram forever ago and never had WhatsApp, so I really am Facebook-free.)<br />
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I know this is going to come across as deluded or hypocritical, considering I haven't left Tumblr or Twitter or Google. I'm realistic and know I can't completely disengage. I also know that with a mini-computer in my pocket which tracks my whereabouts whether I have the GPS on or not, I'll never be completely off the grid. Also, I know there is no such thing as ethical consumerism, but I'm trying to be thoughtful and to pick my battles. In my mind, since Twitter is where I connect most with my friends and colleagues, I'm going to fight for it. As for Tumblr, it used to be a safe haven for queer youth and sex workers, so I'm going to fight for that as well. It's just that I have only so much fight in me, and I feel like it would be better served elsewhere. I really do think Facebook is important for some people, but I'm going to have to leave the fight to restore it to what it could be to others.<br />
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I did this to protect a little of my sanity, and I don't regret it at all. <br />
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It's been about a month now, and I've only had the twinge a few times other than every Tuesday and Thursday when I - for years and years - posted new blog entries to three social media sites. I've got to tell you, though, my hits haven't gone down noticeably and I don't miss the morass that was Facebook.<br />
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How about you? Are you still on Facebook?</div>
Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-37493944525878843912019-02-14T09:53:00.000-05:002019-02-14T09:53:58.511-05:00Just for Fun: Valentine Stuff<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A day to celebrate all things romantic love, especially cisgendered, heterosexual love, makes pretty much everyone feel less than. Even those of us in relationships that look - at least on the surface - like the stereotypical, media driven ideal, can feel less than. Further, there is so much hype that accompanies this holiday that it makes everything such a hassle. Case in point: I am in a healthy, happy romantic relationship, but we decided to put our plans to take advantage of half price night at a local museum on hold rather than deal with the nonsense around today.<br />
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Having said that, I still kind of want to share some of my favorite Valentine related things I've seen this year.<br />
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First, there's <a href="https://twitter.com/Otter_News/status/1095977312800178176">#ValentineASpecies</a> over on Twitter. I have long contended that #SciComm twitter is the best twitter, and this fun trend is just more proof of that. Here are some fun ones I saw, but I recommend perusing the hashtag if you need a laugh:</div>
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Roses are red<br />
Peacocks are blue<br />
They're polygamous<br />
Or have lots of boos 😘<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ValentineASpecies?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ValentineASpecies</a> <a href="https://t.co/Nw6dXAHa8o">pic.twitter.com/Nw6dXAHa8o</a></div>
— WCBS880 Author Talks (@wcbs880books) <a href="https://twitter.com/wcbs880books/status/1096051147683577857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Roses are red<br />
We all need more culture<br />
So forget about looks<br />
And make friends with a vulture<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ValentineASpecies?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ValentineASpecies</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LoveVultures?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LoveVultures</a><br />
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Then there's the <a href="http://aiweirdness.com/post/170685749687/candy-heart-messages-written-by-a-neural-network">neural net written candy heart messages</a>. I encouraged people to tag themselves. For the record, I'm definitely "My Hag":<br />
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Finally, I've written about how much I admire Jeffrey Marsh before, and their public reminder that aromantic and asexual individuals are just as loved and wanted and supported and seen made me admire them even more:<br />
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So, whether you're happily in love and in a romantic relationship, or happily single and looking forward to half-priced chocolate tomorrow, or some other state that combines those two or is a completely other thing, I hope you have a great day. <br />
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Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-44462745110067102772019-02-12T11:17:00.001-05:002019-02-12T11:17:36.030-05:00How to Survive a Bad Job<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A lot of the reasons I was so miserable at my previous institution are no longer a factor there (personnel changes all the way from where I was to the very top of the reporting structure), but I can't lie: I was fairly miserable at my last job. There are a few people in my life now who are just as miserable as (if not more miserable than) I was. I've given some version of this pep talk a couple of times recently, and I thought I'd pass it along to a broader audience.<br />
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The first thing you need to do in order to survive a bad job is to know <b>it's not you</b>. It's them. Trust me. Bad jobs are never bad because there are reasonable people around you who have attainable expectations and support you while you're doing the work. A job is bad because you are treated poorly in some (usually many) ways, whether it's an unrealistically small budget or unattainably high standards or colleagues and supervisors who are absolute nightmares.<br />
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So, repeat after me: "it's not me; it's them."<br />
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No. Say it again. I don't think you believe it yet.<br />
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Still with me? Okay. The next thing you need to do in order to survive a bad job is you have to <b>figure out a way to get out of there</b> and work towards that goal. That's going to look different for each person with a bad job. Sometimes, it will mean moving states away. Sometimes it will mean changing industries or sectors of an industry (like academic to public or law to corporate). This step is going to take a loooooooooooooong time for some of you. Spend 15 minutes minimum every day on this. It took me 4 years that last time I wanted to get away from a bad job. (Yes, sometimes you can ameliorate the shite. Talk to your supervisor's supervisor if you trust them. Talk to your union representative if you have them. I'm assuming you've already tried all that before coming to this post.) So what do you do in the mean time? You have to deal with what is instead of what you think it should be.<br />
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This is going to sound kind of obvious, but <b>find your real reason for staying</b> there (most likely $$ or educational benefits) and remind yourself of it every time shit gets shitty. The next time your boss throws you under a bus and doesn't apologize when you prove them wrong, remember the core reason you're there.<br />
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Next, make sure to <b>take care of yourself</b>. Find a therapist. Find something to do in your not-work life that brings you joy. Find someone to spend time with and cook with and laugh with, or all three at once! (This can be romantic or friendship or both, as suits you.) Get sleep. Eat nutritious food. Also eat junk sometimes, like chocolate or salami, but try to avoid eating your feelings because that will only make you feel worse. Do one thing for yourself, purely and selfishly for you, every day. Drink more water.<br />
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Also important, <b>find ways to stay present</b>. When that spike of anxiety or that fog of depression hits, recognize that it is what it is, but you can also be more in your own skin with a little effort. Here's a list of ways I've managed to bring myself back to the moment:<br />
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<li>Look around the room where you are and count something like everything blue, or everything wood, or everything rectangular.</li>
<li>Close your eyes and identify the source of every single noise you hear. As I type this, I hear a colleague on the phone, the blowing of our heating system, the clacking of my typing, my own breath, and another colleague walking around their office.</li>
<li>Think of a word that starts with every letter of your name. First name if it's not horrible, first and middle and last and title if you're drowning in anxiety/depression. Jumble echolocation sibilant sonorous ichor calamity alleviate. Do it again and again if needed.</li>
<li>Take a slow breathe in, counting to five, and then let it out. I like the constant in and out of breath, but you could also breathe in, then hold, breathe out, then hold.</li>
<li>Walk around the entire perimeter of the building you're in. Internally of the weather is crap, but externally if you are at all able to. Getting outside and feeling wind/sun/etc. is very very good for you.</li>
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Look, it sounds trite, but it's true that the only thing you can absolutely count on always happening is change. Maybe the change will be you, and you'll find a new job. Maybe the change will be them, and the people making you miserable will retire. You have to be intentional about survival when things are horrible, but you got this.<br />
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Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-31893621779186989712019-02-05T10:57:00.000-05:002019-02-05T10:57:35.733-05:00Less is Less, by Donna Lanclos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We can start with the end of this particular story first: There was a call for papers, it didn’t originally contain a critical spin, and </span><a href="https://arlgnw.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/arlg-conference-revised-call-for-papers/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">now </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it is much closer:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I first saw the </span><a href="https://twitter.com/CILIP_ARLG/status/1069655193422319617" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">original call for papers</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, my immediate response was this: It is unhealthy for libraries, for anyone, to suggest that “more is less” should drive or organize your work. If we have less we have to do less. Budgets are political documents. When we lie to ourselves and others and suggest we can do even the same with less, who benefits? Not workers, not researchers, not teachers, not students.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My train of thought was sparked by one particular call for papers, but the fact is that public and academic libraries in the US and the UK hear this sort of thing all the time, and it’s just not sustainable. </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/07/nearly-130-public-libraries-closed-across-britain-in-the-last-year" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many public libraries in the UK are being shut down;</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that is where “more with less” ultimately ends. I would like the profession, across all of its sectors, to find a way to have a conversation about how, when presented with budgets that make things impossible, we say so, and make sure that the people making budget decisions understand that they are, in essence, saying they are happy to not-fund particular kinds of work or resources. I want to support people in speaking truth to their local powers that be, to be able to say to decision makers, “Admit that you don't value this, and that is being reflected in the ‘less’ part of your budget. Say it out loud.” Because rhetorics of “care” that are not backed up by resources are not sincere. Every budget proposal should be annotated with what will be lost if that piece is not funded. “You want a repository without staff? This is what it's gonna cost you in terms of effectiveness.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What happens when we try to do more with less? We fail, just like the K-12 schools in the US are </span><a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/a-punishing-decade-for-school-funding" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">failing</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (or hey, like our entire damn country is failing without a funded and functioning federal government) and then the teachers get blamed when in fact they are being failed by people above them and budgets that do not support public schools or services. I am put in mind of the discussions around “</span><a href="https://eamontewell.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/resilience-grit-and-other-lies-acrl-2017.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">resilience</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” and how that can be </span><a href="https://davewebster.org/2017/05/14/a-contrary-view-critiquing-discourses-of-resilience-in-education/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">damaging to individuals</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in difficult institutional contexts. To what extent are we, through the “more with less” discussions, perpetuating the same harms, asking individuals to weather the pain of dysfunction and austerity, rather than collectively organizing to try to shift discussions and take action towards fixing structural problems?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I appreciate that professional organizations want to try to create space for people to share strategies to deal with this kind of austerity. It makes sense. But making-do in a larger context of budget cutting won’t stop the budget cuts. It is for this reason that I want these conversations to be much more heavily weighted towards voices critical of austerity measures that ensure that the "more with less" theme will persist. If you are in a leadership role in a professional organization for libraries, what can you do as an organization to advocate for more resources for your members?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would encourage anyone presented with a “practical strategies” conference call to stop and think about submitting a “critical approaches” paper, panel, or other contribution. In my experience, library conference presentations tend towards the </span><a href="http://www.donnalanclos.com/three-stories-uxlibs-ii-keynote/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“here’s what we did” content in the first place</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. But there are critical strands everywhere, to be found in conferences, on </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/critlib?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ehashtag" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">social media</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, in journals such as </span><a href="http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Library with a Lead Pipe</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and in our face to face networks. </span><a href="http://www.donnalanclos.com/advocacy-critique-and-communities-of-practice/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Critique and critical inquiry come from a place of care, and engagement,</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and I wish they were more easily recognized as such. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would also encourage conferences who are interested in exploring issues of the impact of austerity on education and library institutions (and the people who work in and use them) to think about providing funding so that people without resources who are actually living this reality can attend. No point in having these conversations only among people who have enough resources to get to the conference in the first place, because while their budgets might well be cut, they at least have enough budget to be in the room without assistance. What resources can be used to widen participation in these public conversations? What digital places and tools, what money can be offered? It will require organization and action to shift what requires shifting. Professional organizations can constructively contribute, especially if they invite and facilitate critique, and lift voices that are not already heard.</span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Though she has inspired lots of posts, this is only the second time Donna Lanclos has written for </span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LtaYL</span></span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The first time was <a href="https://letterstoayounglibrarian.blogspot.com/2018/10/interview-post-donna-lanclos.html">an interview post</a>. Donna tweets at </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://twitter.com/DonnaLanclos" target="_blank">@DonnaLanclos</a>.</span></i></div>
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Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-57320108980058734122019-01-22T07:55:00.000-05:002019-01-22T13:52:19.360-05:00Letter from a Mid Career Librarian to Their Younger Self<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm 46. Of course if I had a time machine it would be a Delorean.</td></tr>
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Yes, this is another post making good on a months old promise<br />
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This isn't exactly what Nick Schiller asked for when he said, "<a href="https://twitter.com/nnschiller/status/985599226703888384">Letter from a young librarian to her mid-career self</a>," but he got me thinking. I know the whole premise of this blog is advice for younger librarians, but what specific things would I tell myself if I could build a time machine and talk to my younger self at different points of my life? So here's what I've come up with:<br />
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<b>LIS Graduate School Jessica:</b><br />
Your ideas about what classes and experiences would help you in the future are all dead on - especially the idea of taking advanced cataloging, even though you know you're going to be public services - with one exception. You'll wish you'd taken the research class instead of the management class, mostly because the management class was useless but also because you're going to become interested in research later in your career.<br />
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<b>First Professional Position Jessica:</b><br />
Absorb everything your first director has to tell you. Remember how you said to yourself, "oh, so that's what I'm going to be like in my forties"? You were 100% correct. You even became a director! But you'll only have her for 6 months, so value the time with her. Also, be as respectful of the paraprofessionals as possible. You'll have a few missteps with this, and you'll learn to be better, but you'll wish you learned sooner.<br />
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<b>Grant Writer Jessica:</b><br />
You're not as bad at this job as you think you are, and your boss is actually much much worse. Your personal life has exploded, sure, but you're going to be so much happier at the other end than you ever were before. And the best part? This job is going to send you back to libraries just in time for a fantastic job that is perfect for you and you're perfect for it.<br />
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<b>Information Literacy Coordinator Jessica:</b><br />
You did this job right. You were good at trusting yourself and building relationships. Maybe reach out to Dee in Student Life sooner? The one thing you'll wish you'd done differently is to make friends with coworkers more as you go through your time at that school. Sure, you have some friends from that part of your life - even now, years later - but there are so many other lovely people at this school. You'll try to connect with those people after you leave, and in some cases you'll be successful (yes, I'm looking at you, <a href="https://twitter.com/ademetria">Demetria</a>), but it would have been so much nicer if you could have had more in person memories with them.<br />
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<b>Brand New Library Director Jessica:</b><br />
It's not you; it's them. You are not crazy (except in the more typical anxiety way), that place is. The best part of this place is how much you'll learn about yourself and libraries and every every everything. Oh, and the friendships that you have going into this job are going to be your lifeline. For instance, that weird guy, Jake, who makes you laugh sometimes is going to end up feeling like family. The most important thing I wish I could tell you is that you <i>will</i> survive this time in your life, and you will move onto a job and a city you love so much that it feels like home within 6 months.<br />
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<b>And, to round this out, here's a message to future Jessica:</b><br />
The biggest thing that you've learned is that you've got this - whatever "this" might be. Trust yourself and your process, and be kind to yourself when you aren't able to live up to an impossible standard. You really are doing the best you know how in every moment.<br />
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So how about you? Do you have any specific advice for your past and future selves?</div>
Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-63245339480400787332019-01-17T09:09:00.000-05:002019-01-18T08:55:36.379-05:00Working with your CIO and IT, by Holly Heller-Ross <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black;">My career in libraries has
taken me from a public, to a hospital, and now to an academic library. Along
the way, I’ve picked up some experience working with information technology
(IT) and currently serve as both Library Director and Chief Information Officer
(CIO) for a medium-sized public higher education institution</span> - <span style="color: black;">SUNY Plattsburgh.</span></div>
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between library and IT</span> at a higher ed institution<span style="color: black;"> can have a profound impact on the success of a library, so here are my
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">First, recognize the CIO as a kindred soul with the same
pressures library directors face.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> That
will help break down any initial us vs. them thinking. Staffing, budget and
time limitations, concerns about effective leadership strategies, the need to
prove value and measure impact, insufficient space, inflationary expense
increases well above any increases in higher education funding …all these
things library directors face</span>? Y<span style="color: black;">eah, CIO’s
face also and on a campus-wide scale!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Just take service hours as an
example. For the library director</span> <span style="color: black;">students are
always asking for 24/7 open hours, and most libraries are not staffed or
budgeted to provide that. And</span> then there’s the question of<span style="color: black;"> when to put your top performers or most skilled staff on
the front lines? Should your librarians be teaching or developing online
guides, or both, but in what proportion? Now imagine the CIO, who is asked to
provide network, helpdesk, telecom, and information security coverage…also without
the staff or budget to really provide that. Also wondering whether to task the
software trainer with group workshops or one-on-one faculty conferences? Surely
that’s something to bond over with a cup of coffee or tea! [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Editor</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">’s Note: Or a nice imperial stout?</i>]<span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I’m not suggesting the only
commonalities are ones of insufficiency though. The joys of problem solving,
assisting faculty with teaching and scholarship, measuring impact on student
learning and showing positive correlations, getting a great purchasing deal
with a vendor, and mentoring staff through career pathways you’ve helped create
are some commonalities you and the CIO can celebrate together. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Second, appreciate their goals and tell them about yours. </span></b><span style="color: black;">One good way to keep up on IT goals is to read the </span><a href="https://www.educause.edu/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">EDUCAUSE</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span>“<span style="color: black;">Top 10 IT Issues</span>”<span style="color: black;"> annual article. This will provide both a listing and some
good contextual material for general understanding of IT priorities. Once you
have </span>the<span style="color: black;"> basic</span>s<span style="color: black;">,
start to match your library top issues with the IT issues your CIO is likely to
already be thinking about. </span>
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any relationship, shared values and objectives make all the work and effort
easier to align. Information Security for example, has been a Top 10 IT issue
for quite a while, and will likely remain so. It might be time to engage in an </span><a href="http://www.bu.edu/tech/about/security-resources/bestpractice/infosec-review/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Information Security Review</span></a><span style="color: black;"> of library resources, including database access, patron
record storage and security, login protocols, off-campus and proxy access, and
library web pages. Any improvements here will be gains for the library and for
IT. Other possibilities for common goals include improvements to login-times
and quick print, switching from custom quoted staff desktops to standardized
purchases and images, assignment of off-campus proxy admin rights to a
technology minded librarian, and collaborative training of student employees
for efficiency. I’m sure you’ll think of specifics for your library, it just
takes a bit of effort.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Then, share your library goals
with the CIO or other IT staff. Feel free to share ALA and ACRL reports and
white papers, your own assessment results, and your own strategic plans with
the CIO and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Executive summaries
will certainly be welcome, but some folks will want the whole thing</span>, <span style="color: black;">and as librarians, we can be ready to provide that at the
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students and faculty.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Clarity enables
boldness, as the inspirational posters read! Once you have established your
priorities, make sure all your campus partners know what they are. </span></div>
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Whether your priorities are facilities upgrades, green
initiatives, patron or staff technology upgrades, improved technology support,
library service enhancements for the teaching and learning environments, mobile
technology improvements, or anything else, make sure people know what you care
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Remember that your priorities are more likely to get
attention when they fit in with an overall campus goal, and that timing
matters! Like all of higher education, library impact on faculty teaching and
scholarship, student learning and success, and institutional efficiencies, are
what matters now. During the span of my career, higher education has shifted
from input measures, to output measures, to impact metrics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your institution is focused on improving
the learning environment and fostering student engagement and retention for
example, my advice would be to also focus on that for your library. Let the
other initiatives wait. Get in sync with your institution and that will make it
much easier to get support from your CIO and all your other campus partners. </div>
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all levels of your organization</span></b><span style="color: black;">. You
probably already know how the library and IT intersect in the formal
communication channels such as reporting, leadership teams, and organizational
committees. Is this enough? Map it out and you’ll be able to see where there
are gaps in substance or in timeliness. If there is an important committee that
meets only once a semester, look for ways to supplement that information
exchange with email updates or some other activity. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Then, dig a bit deeper to look
for both informal communication channels as well as sub population channels
that could be enhanced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you have
vertical and diagonal communication channels? Can you arrange for other
affinity groups to collaborate and communicate? For instance, could you and the
CIO put a group of recent hires together for a specific task? If you could, not
only would you get a specific task accomplished, but you’d start to build the
next generation of collaborative colleagues. Do you have group and one-on-one
communication channels open and functioning? A greater variety of channels will
yield a greater variety of information flow, and that’s exactly what you want!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">And finally, if things go wrong, don’t get mad… get
curious!</span></b><span style="color: black;"> That’s not just good personal
relationship building advice; it’s good for the workplace too! </span></div>
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Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-17738880382802394952019-01-16T12:54:00.003-05:002019-01-16T12:54:52.122-05:00What Libraries Are and Are Not<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last week I admitted that almost a year ago (well, 9 months) I asked for ideas and requests for posts I could write about on my blog and promised to make good on honoring the requests. Well, this week the suggestion/request I ignored came from <a href="https://twitter.com/DonnaLanclos">Donna Lanclos</a>:<br />
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recent twitter convos that I have been having might suggest another whirl around what libraries are, are not, and what they are that people still don't see</div>
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Wow - that is a topic about which I could (and maybe should?) write a PhD dissertation, but I'm game to take a crack at it. <br />
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First, let me say: your mileage may vary. In fact, I'm almost certain it will.<br />
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So what, in my decidedly limited perspective (remember - academic library administrator, who has always worked at smaller schools, and almost exclusively at private institutions):<br />
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<li>The biggest clue to realizing what a particular library is or is not..? Is <b>what kind of community</b> you are serving. This will determine the partnerships you form, the collections you build, the services you provide. It will determine most of what your library is and is not. Let me be a bit more specific:</li>
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<li>Are you going to collect popular fiction? And I mean beyond the pop authors who have transcended to the point where there is sufficient literary criticism to warrant buying their books.</li>
<li>Are you going to provide access to social workers?</li>
<li>How about the kinds of databases you subscribe to, like WestLaw or WindowsWear Pro or NoveList?</li>
<li>Will you be open on weekends?</li>
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<li>The next thing I really want people to think about is <b>getting over the "we're not just books!" thing</b>. Y'all...? We are books. Sure, I've worked at libraries that had unusual collections. I work at a school with a fashion program right now, and we are going to be offering sewing machines for check out really soon. And it's important that people know what else we have, but the book is our major brand association, so stop it.</li>
<li>The most important thing, though, when thinking about what a library is or is not...? <b>LIBRARIES ARE NOT NEUTRA</b>L. Let me say that again: libraries are not neutral. We have never been. We make decisions about what to collect, about what to offer, about who to hire. Even if you tell yourself it's because of space concerns and staff expertise and budgetary constraints, you are still choosing. WE are still choosing. </li>
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That brings me to the biggest takeaway I want you to get from this article. Leaving aside the "should" and the "could" and the "would" of the thing, everything libraries are and are not comes down to the people working there. They can be disturbingly conservative or so far left it might scare you. They can pretend that libraries are neutral and therefore come down on the side of the oppressors. They can be so well meaning that it's hard to fault them (and that is true of people across the political spectrum). Libraries might look like they are about computers or books or democratization or a host of other things, but they aren't. <b>Libraries are the people who work and go there.</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Name?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">James D’Annibale</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Current job?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Currently my title is “Technology & Instructional
Design Librarian” but that doesn’t really tell you what I do. I take care of
all instructional design, instructional technology, and student/faculty
technology training. I’m the administrator for our learning management system
and our video hosting platform. In addition to those things, I do instructional
coaching, help program directors make sure their online programs are of high
quality, do reference work for students as well as helping to plan the library
budget alongside our collections management librarian. I also did most of the
work to establish our new library website. Now that it’s built, we all
co-manage it (which means when someone remembers something needs to be done we
take care of it).</span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How long have you been in the field?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was a school librarian for 2 years right after
my undergraduate work. I completed my Master of Library Science as I was
working as a school librarian. I then took jobs outside of librarianship for 3
years, and now have been in my current position for 3 years. So I guess you
could say on and off for the past 8 years.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is your office/workspace like?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m told my office was a complete afterthought
when they built this part of our library. They were near completion when the
library director at the time told the construction team we needed another
office. So they essentially put up 2 walls and a semi-circle of glass windows,
fixed a countertop to one of the walls, and called it an office. I refer to it
as my “fishbowl.” The countertop isn’t really the right height a desk should be
and the edges are not smooth so it’s kind of uncomfortable to work at. Because
of that, I asked my boss if I could get one of those sit/stand things you put
on your desk and I like it a lot better. I try my best to be paperless in my
work but there are still a bunch of papers all over the place. There’s also A/V
equipment sitting out because I often forget to put things away.</span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How do you organize your days?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m ruled by my calendar. I have a Google
calendar widget on the home screen of my phone. It’s typically the first thing
I look at when I wake up. I like to know the quantity and type of meetings I’ll
have before I even get in the shower. A lot of my time is spent in meetings,
consultations, or trainings, so it’s important to know what I have going on and
what I can possibly fit in between those meetings, etc. Many people I’ve talked
to about work-efficiency type of stuff tell me that it’s bad to be ruled by
your calendar because you’ll take too many meetings, but I actually book time
on my calendar to work on “real” work. For example, today I had 2 hours blocked
off on my calendar to work on some video tutorials I owed to some students. If
someone wants to schedule a meeting with me, it looks to them that I’m already
in a meeting for those 2 hours so I actually get the time to do my work.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Other than that I don’t know that my days are
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me. Faculty and students all have their class schedules pretty set so it means
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What do you spend most of your time doing?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Listening to music. I’m serious with that too. I
keep Pandora going pretty much all day every day except for when I have a
meeting. I have pretty sweet stations centered around Eminem, Macklemore, Jay
Z, Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato, a station that mixes Jesus Christ Superstar with
Les Miserables, a good Simon & Garfunkel station, and sometimes I even mix
in the Disney station I have for my kids.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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music on, it certainly feels like I spend most of my time answering tech
questions and making video tutorials because words don’t always do the trick.
However when I look at my calendar there’s no way my feeling there is accurate.
Most of my time is spent working with faculty to help them teach better (face
to face or online).</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is a typical day like for you?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m going to split this into 2 sections. You’ll
see why when you get to the 2nd part.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Part 1: The Workday</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After waking up, I check my calendar for the
day, get a shower, get dressed, and make empty threats to ground my children or
take away their toys if they don’t get ready for school. At work I make it a
point to greet my coworkers right when I get in. Some of my coworkers come in
after me and I make sure to say hi to them later on. When I get to my office I
check my email. I try my best to answer everything that can be answered in a
few words or sentences first. I figure it’s better to get the easy ones out of
the way. Then I work on the rest whenever I have time. I’ve found that,
especially here, if you answer emails quickly people are super-appreciative
because there are other people that take forever to get back to people. Solving
problems efficiently makes you look like Superman if everyone else will wait a
few days. Besides the email thing, like I said before it’s all about my
calendar and no 2 days are the same.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Part 2: Post-workday</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I get in the car with my wife (we work together
and often drive together) and unless she brings something up, I don’t even
think about work. It’s as if there’s an ocean between my house and the college.
I used to be a work-a-holic. I used to answer work emails whenever they came
in. Then I realized that I’m not an Emergency Room Surgeon and nobody’s going
to die or be harmed in any way if I let those emails wait until the next
morning. My boss and many other people on campus have my cell phone number and
personal email. If it’s super-important, someone will find a way to contact me.</span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
What are you reading right now?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve been working through the “Jack Ryan” series
via audiobook for what I’m thinking is the last 2 years I listen when in the
car by myself and when I run. I typically run between 20-45 minutes and, with 3
girls and a wife, I’m hardly ever driving by myself - so it’s slow going. I’m
currently on </span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/897777534"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal;">Command Authority</span></a></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What's the best professional advice you've
ever received?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Can I do 2?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First...It is perfectly fine to say “I don’t
know right now; give me a few days to think about it.” I know seems to go
against what I said earlier with solving problems efficiently, but the right
answer after a few days is more efficient than a wrong answer right away. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Second, and more importantly… Family comes
first. Never lose sight of your family to get ahead at work. </span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What have you found yourself doing at work
that you never expected?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I never expected people from other departments
(including faculty) would ask me for advice with stuff that has little or
nothing to do with my job description or duties. I totally welcome it, as I
will help in any way I can, but I definitely didn’t expect it. I usually end up
running things by them that I’m wondering about, too. It’s pretty good
brainstorming and we’ve all benefited from it.</span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Inside
the Library Studio</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is your favorite word?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PopSeeKo...Google it.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b><span style="color: #222222;">What is your least favorite word?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Printer-Jam</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What profession other than your own would you
love to attempt?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some sort of Front Office Executive for the New
York Yankees</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222;">What profession would you never want to attempt?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jobs that involve being covered in poop or other
undesirable substance. Pretty much anything on that </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458259/?ref_=nv_sr_1"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Dirty Jobs</span></a><span style="color: black;"> show.</span></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Everything
Else</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What superpower do you wish you had?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Time travel--I’d go forward to get lottery
numbers and then come back to win a gazillion dollars. I’d only even have to
use the power once. I wouldn’t want to mess with something crazy in the past
and end up with dinosaurs still roaming the Earth.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b><span style="color: #222222;">What are you most proud of in your career?</span></b><span style="color: black;">I’m most proud of my diversity of talents. This particular
job has me doing a bunch of different things on top of the other things I’ve
been good at in prior jobs. Each of the 3 prior jobs I’ve had have been very
different from one another. School librarian, classroom teacher/football coach,
project manager at a manufacturing firm, and now the litany of things I do as a
librarian. I think it’s cool that I’ve been able to have so many experiences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b><span style="color: #222222;">If you're willing to share, tell about a mistake
you made on the job.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This was back when I was a project manager at a
manufacturing firm. I took a meeting with a client’s architect and some others
at a time when my engineering and design team was unavailable. I thought I
could handle it myself and I was wrong. I ended up wasting everyone’s time in
the meeting. It’s kind of like I said before with saying “I don’t know”. It’s
better to delay the meeting than it is to have a meeting with the wrong people.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222;">When you aren't at work, what are you likely
doing?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There’s really only 3 possibilities. I’m either
doing something with my kids, bringing my kids to their activities like dance
and soccer, or playing Playstation. After the kids go to bed you can find me
working on my MBA coursework. I have 2 more semesters.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b><span style="color: #222222;">Who else would you like to see answer these
questions?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scott DiMarco, Mansfield University of
Pennsylvania. He’s one of the best men I know and I think we could all learn a
lot from him.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He tweets sparingly at <a href="https://twitter.com/James_Dann2006"><span style="color: blue;">@James_Dann2006</span></a>.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-88803186313697050682019-01-08T12:19:00.001-05:002019-01-08T13:14:32.268-05:00Professional Development Readers' Advisory for the Perpetually Behind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A while back, I asked people what topics they might like me to cover, then I promptly forgot that I'd asked. Over the winter break, though, I saw some tweets that I'd favorited and thought I'd get back to answering those questions/requests.<br />
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Up first?<br />
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Readers advisory for librarians looking to catch up? I feel so behind on prof dev.</div>
— Valerie Forrestal (@vforrestal) <a href="https://twitter.com/vforrestal/status/985592693945458688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In some ways, this plagues me, too. In fact, that's <a href="https://twitter.com/olinj/status/985593329390899202">how I responded to Valerie's response</a>. I'm hoping that others will chime in both here in the comments and in response to the places I'll post this on social media. I really want this to to be cooperative and collaborative.<br />
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Ahead of that, though, here are the things I try to watch:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>I don't read every post, but I try to pay attention to what both <a href="https://twitter.com/biblioracle">John Warner</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/bfister">Barbara Fister</a> publish on <i>Inside Higher Ed.</i> Warner's blog, <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting"><i>Just Visiting</i></a>, comes from the perspective of someone who adjuncted for a long time. He believes - rightly - that there are better ways to teach writing, and is very loud and shouty on this point. Fister's blog, <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish"><i>Library Babel Fish</i></a>, is billed as "a college librarian's take on technology" but it's so much more than that.</li>
<li>There are a few titles that I have access to in print or digitally that I always at least look at the table of contents for each new issue, and a lot of them are open-access:</li>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.libraryjournal.com/"><i>Library Journal</i></a></li>
<li><a href="https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl"><i>College & Research Libraries</i></a></li>
<li><a href="https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews"><i>College & Research Libraries News</i></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/"><i>Computers in Libraries Magazine</i></a></li>
</ul>
<li>Finally, I have a subscription to <a href="https://www.informedlibrarian.com/index.cfm"><i>Informed Librarian Online</i></a>, which aggregates a lot and picks out a short list of really interesting articles and books and publications that came out during the previous month.</li>
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I've got to be honest - I still have a hard time keeping up with it all, but this cross-section is how I try to keep abreast of what ideas are filtering up and getting published. As ever, Twitter is usually more in the moment, but I try to pay attention to what gets considered in long form.<br />
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How about you all? How do the rest of you keep on top of new LIS research and publications?</div>
Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-30060902552342520372019-01-03T09:30:00.001-05:002019-01-03T09:30:31.607-05:00Just for Fun: No Resolutions, Only Intentions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm pretty sure that panel from <i>Calvin & Hobbes</i> was meant to make Calvin look silly, but the joke's on Bill Watterston because Calvin was perfect the way he was. In fact - hold onto your hats - we are all perfect just the way we are. We are all as we need to be in any moment. Sure, your brain chemistry might not be where you want it to be and you might have more adipose tissue than is condoned by mainstream culture. You probably have less money than you'd like and more books on your to read list than you'll ever have time to complete. But really - REALLY - I know in my heart that you are doing the best you know how. So am I. So is everyone.<br />
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People make and then break resolutions every year, me included, so this year I'm going to do something different. I'm going to try my hardest to love me as I am. Right now. Sensitive stomach and occasional acne. Bad back and fat legs. Even going to try to love my anxiety. (For those who've been paying attention, yes - this intention is shaped by <a href="https://letterstoayounglibrarian.blogspot.com/2018/12/just-for-fun-learning-how-to-be-me.html"><i>How to be You</i></a>.)<br />
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The first step in this will be to stop as much negativity as I can. I know this may seem contradictory - I just said I'm going to love me as I am, and then I immediately talked about something I'm trying to change. Not actually a contradiction, since I know my negativity has served me well in the past and if I'm going to love me as I am, I have to love all of me. Kindness is my highest aspiration, however, and I want to make it a habit.<br />
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Please take a moment to tell yourself some things you like about you as we move into this new year, with all the wonder and terror it will probably entail. You're a pretty great person. And so am I.</div>
Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-8406877128639769222019-01-01T10:30:00.000-05:002019-01-01T10:30:00.200-05:00Writing as an Act of Vulnerability<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Short post today because my thoughts on this topic are still evolving.<br />
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Let's be honest with each other: writing and publishing something is an act of vulnerability. You're putting yourself out there and, in a manner of speaking, showing your soft underbelly. I think about this every time I find a typo in a post I've already published, and then chastise myself for not editing more closely. I think about this every time someone takes issue with a point I've made and I try to figure out if I could have been clearer. And I think about it every time a post or tweet or whatever resonates strongly with people and I get retweeted/shared a lot. Yes, vulnerability can be scary, but it can also be a very good thing. I know for sure that we need to be more vulnerable.<br />
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Sharing the less than pretty thoughts and emotions and outcomes is hard. There is still so much stigma around mental illness and anger and failure that we are all at least a little afraid we'll be judged. But the truth is we all experience these things.<br />
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<li>I don't know many librarians - or people, for that matter - who aren't suffering with some kind of <b>anxiety or depression or other mental illness</b>. Heck, in a talk I gave last year about how to get up to speed when you're a new library administrator, in a section where I was discussing self care, I said, "find yourself a good therapist." The audience was predominately people who were new library administrators, and more than half of the people in the room nodded their heads in agreement. </li>
<li><b>Everyone gets angry sometimes</b> (well, maybe not the Dalai Lama, but he's a special case). The thing about anger is that the only people who are allowed to express it without being judged are cishet WASP men, and even they are judged if they get angry too often. A friend of mine recently marveled at the fact that I, as a library administrator, was expressing anger about something that happened at work. I don't remember exactly how my friend said it, but it was along the lines of, "most library administrators are so zen." My response was something like, "no library administrators are zen, we've just gotten good at playing our cards close to our chest."</li>
<li>And <b>everyone fails sometimes</b>. We share our triumphs, which is good, but sharing our failures is actually more important - especially for those of us who are more established in our fields and in our lives. I've messed up my budget before. When I was a new administrator, I corrected someone publicly. I've even been fired before. Sometimes failure can be made pretty and palatable, as in "we tried this and it didn't work so we're going to try that instead." Sometimes it can't. It is critical to try to learn from mistakes, but sometimes you just fuck up and have to move on.</li>
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So, I guess what I'm trying to say here is that I'm going to try to be more vulnerable in my writing here in the future. I encourage you to do the same in your writing. I've got 15+ years in this field and 46+ years on this planet, and if y'all can learn from my mistakes and avoid those pitfalls, it would be great. Not that you aren't going to make any of your own mistakes - but when you do, please know I'd be happy to publish your musings on it so I can help you become comfortable with being vulnerable as well.</div>
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Happy New Year, y'all.</div>
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Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-14078944031179034132018-12-20T08:51:00.000-05:002018-12-20T08:51:08.881-05:00Research can be Romantic, by Lauren Connolly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you know who </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">loves</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> research? Fiction writers.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fiction writers are constantly crafting new stories and worlds. They are fashioning characters and settings out of their imaginations, using knowledge they absorb from the world around them. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If authors could only create characters with the same expertise and interests they themselves possess, all the shelves in the world would simply be filled with autobiographies. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who wants that?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity and exploration are why research is so important to writers; they want their stories to go further than their own personal experiences. If an author wants their protagonist to work as a mechanic, but the author has never peeked their head under the hood of a car before, what are they to do? Research. If their character’s family member is suffering from a genetic disease the writer has been fortunate never to encounter, how do they learn about the symptoms? Research. If an author plans to write an interracial romance set in the American Wild West, how are they going to learn about the difficulties couples actually faced during that time period? Research.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Isn’t this exciting?! A gigantic group of people just clamoring for our librarian research superpowers! Well … maybe not clamoring. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say the majority of writers are introverted, and may not feel comfortable asking for help. They might not even know that you have these magical superpowers to share with them.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At this point, I think it is time I admit that I count myself among this wonderful group of people. When I am not at my librarian day job, I can often be found tapping away at my keyboard, creating stories about people falling in love. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am a romance author.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This past year, I joined a local romance authors group. The women are supportive, funny, and understand my obsession with happy endings. I am a novice member of the group, which is why I was flattered when they asked me to be the speaker at the October meeting. They asked if I could talk to them about research.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That’s when I realized how lucky I am. While earning my MLIS, I learned how to navigate databases with ease, and what’s more, I now have access to a huge amount of academic information because I am employed at a university. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the other hand, these women, all of who are extremely intelligent, had likely never received the same in-depth instruction on how to perform academic research, nor do they have access to the same resources my job provides for me. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My guess is they exhausted all the research methods they knew, and they wanted to find out what other tools existed in the world.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My main goal was to find resources </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> had access to but probably hadn’t yet stumbled upon. The members of this romance authors group are residents of Ohio (mainly in the Toledo area) and are public library card carriers, which means they have access to both </span><a href="http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OhioLINK</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the </span><a href="https://www.ohioweblibrary.org/sources/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ohio Web Library (OWL)</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. OhioLINK is a fantastic resource for academic books, while OWL enabled them to search for academic research articles through EBSCOhost.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I spent an hour showing them how to locate these databases, detailing what type of content they contained, and then demonstrating a variety searching methods. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They loved it. One woman, whose most recently published book made it to Publisher Weekly’s best sellers list, expressed how she wished she’d known about these resources while writing her past books, and she can’t wait to utilize them in the future. Success!</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, how does me giving a presentation to my writers group affect you? The answer: I didn’t have to be a romance author to speak to them! For that hour, I was simply a helpful librarian. And isn’t that what the majority of us are?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writers groups are everywhere; </span><a href="https://www.rwa.org/Online/Get_Involved/Chapters/Online/Get_Involved/Chapters.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romance Writers of America (RWA) has local chapters across the United States</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. And then there are plenty of general writers’ groups, too. Find out if there are any near you, and get in touch with them. A lot of these organizations are looking for speakers, and some may even have a budget to pay for presenters. But even if they don’t, it is a great way to get presentation experience and make connections in your community. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lauren Connolly is the Instructional Technology Librarian at Fort Lewis College</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. She tweets about books and romance and other random things at </span><a href="https://twitter.com/laurenaliciaCon" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@laurenaliciaCon</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and posts info about her novels at </span><a href="http://www.laurenconnollyromance.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.laurenconnollyromance.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This is her second post for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LtaYL</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; the first was “</span><a href="https://letterstoayounglibrarian.blogspot.com/2016/09/are-there-any-questions-my-first-month.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are There Any Questions? My First Month as a Full-Time Librarian</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“.</span></span></span></div>
Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-36677505718252832582018-12-14T11:08:00.001-05:002018-12-14T11:08:22.140-05:00Interview Post: Amie Wright<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Amie Wright (yes, I am ‘Amie’ with an ‘i.e.’)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">9 to 5 I am a Library Manager at the Edmonton Public Library;
evenings and weekends I am the Co-Chair Convention Planning for the American
Library Association Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT - follow us </span><a href="https://twitter.com/libcomix?lang=en"><span style="color: #1155cc;">@libcomix</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">). Formerly I worked at the New York Public Library as
the Manager of School Outreach and Collection Development Librarian on </span><a href="https://www.mylibrarynyc.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">MyLibraryNYC</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> - NYC’s educational outreach partnership.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">I have been a Librarian with a capital “L” since graduating with
my MLIS from the University of Western Ontario in 2009; however I have worked in
the field on and off since (*thinks and counts in head…*) 1999 when I started
as a library assistant at the University of Calgary medical library. Before
that I worked as a student assistant in an art museum and as a high school page
shelving books so, yep, it’s been a while.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Clean - except for my collection of Comic Con and Library
Convention badges and my ever present and vigilant Ms. Marvel funko.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Use a lot of life hacks (i.e. work on a project for a set amount
of time - i.e. 50 mins then break) and GTD tricks (though I am ever attempting
inbox zero I am more like inbox 30 on most days); also coffee. A lot of coffee.</span></span></span></div>
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meetings, phone calls, and emails - lots of email.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Have I mentioned email….? But seriously, even as a library
manager everyday looks a little bit different - which is one of the best things
about librarianship! - but generally I start by checking my messages on my cell
from about 8:30 am onwards. I need to see if anyone has called out sick and if
there are any literal (or figurative) fires to put out - my library has a
renovation currently underway, while still being open, so this is a constant
concern - is everything OK with the contractors? How is the work going today?
Etc. I usually arrive at work between 9-10am depending on my schedule that day
- and how late I need to stay. I work one evening a week (a 1-9pm shift) and
every third weekend (full shifts on Sat and Sun). Once I arrive I check in with
my team before the library opens to ensure the daily schedule looks OK and I
give the weekly schedule a double check. If there any holes I will start making
calls to our sub and part-time call-in pool - or call nearby branches to see if
any staff can be reallocated. My library system is a mid-range urban system;
Edmonton is a city of a million people and we have 20 library branches. My
branch is a smaller, community library with 17 staff members - 5 full-time
staff and 12 part-timers including 3 high school pages. Then, once the library
opens, I flex my fingers, and start with paperwork. There is a lot of admin running
a library branch and this can include balancing the monthly financials (petty
cash, discretionary spending), forgiving library fines, checking in with
library patron feedback, responding to emails (have I mentioned emails?), and,
of course, forecasting ahead for the next 1-2 months - who do I need to check
in with? what are some critical dates / programs / events coming up? I will
also check in with my leadership team.Then my days are usually a mix of
meetings, preparing for meetings, and, as I am able, I like to catch up even 30
mins per day on library / education / publishing news.On my lunchtime and
after work I respond to ALA GNCRT emails, and help with our social media
channels. This is a lot of work but a labour of love. Our Round Table just got
official status this past summer during ALA Annual in NOLA.</span></span></span></div>
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What are you reading right now?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Currently reading the award winning and gorgeously drawn </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1032473974"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">My
Favorite Thing is Monsters</span></i></a><i><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></i><span style="color: #222222;">by Emil Ferris; I recently finished reading </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1050934470"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">The
Strange</span></i></a><i><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></i><span style="color: #222222;">by Jerome Ruillier - a new graphic novel published by
Drawn & Quarterly that - similar to Shaun Tan’s </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1015209344"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">The
Arrival</span></i></a><span style="color: #222222;"> - follows an unnamed,
undocumented immigrant’s experiences as he tries to forge a new life in a
Western country where he doesn’t speak the language. Finally, I am also reading
</span><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/worry-free-money-the-guilt-free-approach-to-managing-your-money-and-your-life/oclc/1020007684&referer=brief_results"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">Worry-Free Money</span></i></a><span style="color: #222222;">
- which has been super inspirational as I contemplate (big gulp) leaving my
full-time library job to head back to school full-time. I have been wanting to
further my history studies and specifically look at improving accessibility and
educational outreach of library and archival collections.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What's the best professional advice you've ever received?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Allow yourself to be surprised and allow yourself to be
inspired. Say yes to things that scare you. Allow people to help. Also - and,
most importantly, enjoy the moments and the people; if you are a manager or
leader, be good to your team. Build people up, don’t tear them down. My professional
mentors are all people who came to the profession in unusual or surprising ways
- maybe it was a midlife career change, or they ended up doing something
radically different than they originally studied for, or they bring interesting
side projects and interests to their work. They all showed me that
librarianship - our leadership, our values, our collections - is (or - should
be) as diverse as the communities we serve. There’s no ‘one path.’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What have you found yourself doing at work that you never
expected?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Considering my current trajectory as a comics and education
librarian? 100% my career has gone in places and I have found myself doing work
I never expected and truly didn’t realize existed. I worked in non profit for a
few years post-undergraduate as I was figuring out what to do with my life. I
came to the library because I saw it as a perfect fit between helping people
and connecting them with resources. I never thought that my personal passion
for comics and history could be further combined with helping people and
connecting them with resources. Certainly I never expected that would result in
me working to get comic books like </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/989876671"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">March</span></i></a><span style="color: #222222;"> into NYC schools, then presenting at San Diego Comic Con,
then planning an event like </span><a href="http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/Explore/Panels/NYPL/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">NYCC @ NYPL</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">, and
then working with an amazing team to get the GNCRT created! Definitely the past
few years have shown me that librarianship can be so surprising and rewarding
in the big moments and the smaller, more personal ones too.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What is your favorite word?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">SO MANY! (I am sort of obsessed with the Merriam-Webster
Dictionary iphone app - they have a word of the day feature!) Most recent
favourites: abscond, dulcet, mellifluous, and </span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #303336;">asseverate.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What is your least favorite word?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">When I lived in NJ somehow ‘irregardless’ was integrated into
the state lexicon. To hear it is like fingernails on a chalkboard.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What profession other than your own would you
love to attempt?</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">I wanted to be a vet growing up. Unfortunately, <span style="background: white;">I pass out at the sight of blood so I figured a career
in veterinary medicine probably wasn’t a good fit.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What profession would you never want to attempt?</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Making a profit off of others - looking at you, for-profit
pharmacology industry.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u><span style="color: #222222;">Everything Else</span></u></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What superpower do you wish you had?</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">If anyone has ever heard me present or appear on a podcast they
have probably heard me talk about Wolverine and his healing factor - and I just
going to leave it at that before I fan (again) about Wolverine.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">What are you most proud of in your career?</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
The work I am doing now and the people I am working with: helping to contribute
to starting a new Round Table at ALA and one that is all about Graphic Novels
& Comics has been the culmination of a lot of separate projects and
passions and amazing committed individuals all coming together in such an
awesome and unexpected way. But truly, all of the professional development sessions
I have been involved with for schools and libraries, big and small, have felt
so meaningful. And, like most librarians, some of my top career highlights have
been with fellow teammates and community members themselves - a kid whose face
highlights up when you suggest a new title to read, someone who needed help
with their resume who has found a job, or when you hire someone who is as
excited about the profession as you are! The library is an extension of the
communities we live in, and I am just happy to be able to assist in anyway with
the ebb and flow of that. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">*also, my friends would find this remiss if I didn’t say that
getting Mover and Shaker in 2017 has given me a steady supply of dinner party
jokes that feel like something out of <i>A Christmas Story</i> - as I tried to
explain to my (non-library) family that it’s a major award.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">If you're willing to share, tell about a mistake
you made on the job.</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">So many mistakes…! If anyone has one hour I will tell you all
about that time we tried to issue library cards to every student in NYC! But
seriously, and without sounding too Oprah like (hey Oprah - you are awesome
tho), I don’t consider them mistakes. Truly they have been learning
opportunities and like, ‘oh hey, I didn’t know that…’ or, ‘hmph….good to know for
next time.’ Working in a public library so long you meet so many different
people. Most of the ‘mistakes’ I've made are around making assumptions about
people or interactions; what I have learned (and have to keep reminding myself
over and over again) is that it is always best to make no assumptions - have
high standards certainly - but don’t take things personally, be open to change,
and allow yourself to be surprised by people and situations.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">When you aren't at work, what are you likely
doing?</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Thinking about work. And when I am not doing that, I am spending
time with friends and family and traveling and thinking about traveling. I went
to so many amazing large and local cons throughout North America these past few
years, like the Toronto Comic Arts Fest, Small Press Expo, and San Diego Comic
Con. on the agenda for the 2019 and 2020 are some international conventions
like Angoulême in France and Thought Bubble which has a comics scholarship
conference concurrently hosted at the Leeds Library. Maybe a Latin American Con
too? Also IFLA and the Graphic Medicine Conference and one day I would like to
visit the Nelson Mandela Centre for Memory.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Who else would you like to see answer these
questions?</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Carla Reimer @carlawr Marcela Peres @marcelaphane Matthew
Noe @noethematt</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #222222;">Amie tweets at <a href="https://twitter.com/librarylandia"><span style="color: blue;">@librarylandia</span></a>.</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Jessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-4339256973948792782018-12-11T10:40:00.000-05:002018-12-11T10:40:38.895-05:00Recharging Professional Batteries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last week, I talked about some questions to ask when you reach a mid-career slump. This week, I want to talk about one way I've been able to recharge a little. I started writing this post in the Spring, before I ended up taking an extended hiatus from blogging, but I think it's still important to share.<br />
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Back in the Spring, I spent about two days meeting with library staff - predominately library administrators - from all around the SUNY system. I have to be honest: I was kind of dreading going to this meeting. I was already behind with my to do list before I'd had the flu a couple of weeks prior, and the prospect of missing a bunch more time in the office was not filling me with delight. Who wants to sit around and talk about things that may or may not have anything to do with my day-to-day - think about how varied <a href="https://www.suny.edu/attend/visit-us/complete-campus-list/">the schools in SUNY</a> are, and you'll have an idea of why I thought that - when I had plenty of day-to-day to attend to.<br />
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I should have known I would be wrong about my dread. Sure, there were things we discussed that didn't have as much bearing on my school as they did on other schools, but the updates about <a href="http://system.suny.edu/olis/">OLIS</a> and the new chancellor weren't my big take-away from the time I spent with the other SUNY staff.<br />
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There were quite a few other take-aways, though.<br />
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<li>I got to hear what all the other campuses are up to, especially other community colleges.</li>
<li>The social time I was able to spend socialising with and getting to know other cc administrators in SUNY because SUNY is different from the other consortia I've been in, etc., was invaluable.</li>
<li>Even beyond the other community college library administrators, there's something so very validating about being around people who have same kinds of problems, challenges, and successes as me.</li>
<li>Also, it must be said that it was nice to get away from the office for a bit so I could recharge.</li>
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We all need that. Time to recharge. There's a multi-day training thing going on this week for people who are involved with, in one way or another, the change over from one <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_public_access_catalog">OPAC</a> to another (SUNY is switching from Aleph to Alma), and though I'm sure the training will be valuable, that's not why I'm excited for my staff. I'm most excited for the recharge opportunity this presents to library faculty and staff. It's the end of the semester and things are always stressful this time of year, so I'm glad they all have an opportunity to get away.<br />
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How about you? Do you find time with peers, outside of your normal context, to be refreshing and renewing?</div>
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