The new year is here. I am rather ambivalent about it. The most significant thing that has happened so far is that our new boss has arrived. Considering the administration’s schedule for her, I won’t see her until later this week. As it is the beginning of the semester, I have a dozen pressing things to complete over the next few weeks. Most of it is instruction preparation. Others are committee work and general librarianship. The usual trifecta. I still seek to discover the pattern in the chaos and  be able to develop a structure that keeps the chaos manageable. There’s not much more to say about 2016 yet. I…