learning
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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…
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Handles
Today it feels like I’m getting some sort of handle on my job activities. When I was given my job description (I was offered a job that I didn’t interview for), it listed all of the possible things that this job includes. Most of it was boilerplate stuff that fell under the categories of collection management, instruction, and reference. This I expected. Having had two weeks of orientation and a chance to see the library as a organism, I have a better perspective. We are beginning preparations for the fall semester. And by the end of the month I am expected to be making and doing. I’m starting to see…
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First week over
Today wasn’t the most stellar of days. I wore shoes that I shouldn’t have. I sat on the ref desk fr the first time and got all the questions that they didn’t think I’d need to worry about that much. I kept forgetting that circulation was separate, and momentarily floundered finding answers to questions that I eventaully referred to them. I’m rusty on Refworks and so I flubbed a couple of answers that I should have figured out if I had thought about it. And I realized that I forgot my train pass on the train last night. I’m hoping it gets turned in, but not likely. But it wasn’t…
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First Days Debrief
I’m tired. The orientation has been at a reasonable pace, but then add on the commute, a different sleep/wake cycle, altered eating schedule, continued obligations from prior, limited connectivity, and hot weather. It’s overwhelming on multiple levels. This reminds me that for as much consciousness and choice that we have, we are still just creatures. The next two months will be the most difficult. The fall will settle out. For the moment I’m going to enjoy the train ride and then get some reading done.