Bipolar results

Today was good and disappointing.

I picked up an extra class to cover for a colleague. It went well and I felt prepared enough for such short term notice. I’m grateful that I spent the time earier these months to create templates that look good and are easy to swap out information. I usually have a trio: my outline, the class worksheet, and the evaluation.

This class was a small group of visiting nursing students, so I found I had to scale back. Better to be over prepared than under.

The second class was the disappointment. I spent a week creatig the curriculum for an introductory Pubmed class. The activities I had planned were designed to build on one another, yet be extremely practical. I had six know registrations. One person showed up, and he was a drop in. We chatted for a while about his work. But ultimately he left, promising to come back for the second attempt tomorrow.

From what I have heard, this is a typical experience. workshops aren’t well attended. I tried to market on my end. I know the original broadcast and reminder got pushed on my end. I encouraged drop-ins. I had good signage in visible places.

I wasn’t part of the original push, so I wish I could have sent personal reminders to those that registered. Instead I had to rely on general listserves. But my instinct still stands that I will have better luck with guerilla, impromptu sessions on-site than I ever will for a library located one. I think it’s past time for me to make more of a push get into the departments.