Job Interview

So I'm back from Virginia and my interview seemed to go pretty well. It was a panel interview with three librarians, an HR person, and the library director. They each asked me a couple of questions and then I got to ask them questions. So, I think I did pretty well, but I'm not sure. I will hear from them in the next couple of weeks. We'll see... Sounds like it will be an interesting job- they did ask me about being flexible with where I am in the library. I could be doing reference as well as Children's stuff and even technical services stuff. It was a pretty small library. Here's the link for the library. We'll see...

Thoughts

Well, I am at work right now. I should totally be doing something more useful, but I'm totally out of it today! This weather is doing a number on my allergies. I keep blowing my nose and my eyes are all watery!

Thank goodness we are taking a storytime break for three whole weeks! This is of course to the chagrin of our many nannies. I have overheard grumbling several times this morning. They don't seem to understand that a) our staff needs a break and b) we are vastly understaffed!! Half of the library is gone or leaving in the next two weeks. We literally have lost almost all our department heads and full time librarians in the past 6 weeks. It makes life frustrating.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to get ready for the job interview in Virginia. And my brother is going to be in town this weekend! Yay! He's flying in from Houston tonight and leaving Sunday. I'm excited to be able to hang out with him. He's also bringing the pan to make cheesecake... :)

Alrighty, back to productivity.

Blogpost 6

Hey everyone! I have a new webpage. How to Pick a Good Book!

free PDF maker

Here's the link to a website that will convert documents to pdf format.
http://www.pdfonline.com/index.htm

Blog Post 5-Class Recap

Well, I thought I'd spend this last post pondering the whole Blogger experience. As someone who has had a Blogspot in the past and also blogs via MySpace, this was not an alien concept to me, but keeping to a specific topic was. It has not been overly hard to concentrate on library and technology issues, which was somewhat surprising to me. I had of course thought about libraries and technology quite a bit, but being "forced" to write about it has brought a new light to my thinking. My group project is about blogging and now I can see how blogging can really be applied to a library service.

This has been productive for me because I will soon be an actual librarian. Graduation is in May and I am interviewing in about a week and half at a library in Virginia. The library said in its ad that they were looking for new graduates and for someone who could help them re-define reference services. Looking at their website now I can see a great deal of potential in helping them jump into new reference and reader's advisory services. I am excited that I will be able to talk about Web 2.0 technologies in my interview with knowledge and confidence. This class has helped me broaden my horizons.

In short, I have to celebrate my experience in this class and say thank you to everyone in our class for helping me in one way or another. It's been great!

Blogpost #4 Video technologies

I just witnessed some kids using technology creatively today at work. They were totally filming themselves and Internet content via their video cell phones. I do wonder how kids half my age can have such items, but they were being creative. I wonder if by filming animations from the web onto their phones would considered copyright violation. I did not run up and reprimand them simply because I was interested in what they were doing. That's the great thing about technology today. It has the unique quality of empowering every day people to create things. I would not have even thought such things would be possible at the age that these kids are now.

As how to apply video technology to libraries, I wonder what patrons would think if their local library had videos of daily tasks online. I think our patrons would be interested to know how a new book is processed before it hits the library shelves. Or there could even be a video about how an interlibrary loan book gets to and from respective libraries. Or in our case, what the after school kids (ASK) program does each day. I think that these are interesting ideas and ones that could probably be implemented relatively cheaply. I mean if 13 year olds can create videos, why can't the library? :)


What think the rest of you?

Interesting Article

This was an interesting article that I found the link to in a friend's MySpace blog.
http://www.slate.com/id/2159929 The article is all about turns of phrase and modern grammar, especially as related to instant messaging, blogging, etc.

Enjoy!