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Semester end
The semester just ended and only noticed at five pm today when non one was at the circ desk. This marker evaded me despite that we had a “party” for one of our students on Tuesday because she was graduating on saturday, and depite that I knew my pharmacy students were studying outside my office door, and despite that my daughter is moving back for the summer even as I type this. For as much as I have an excellent navigational compass, it must come at the expense of being able to measure time. I sat for part of my train ride home and added things to my planning list…
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Unexpected progress
I rarely get to say this, but I had a very productive meeting. It was with a department head, introducing myself and offering an opportunity to get to know me and my work, and a chance to get to know that department. A number of topics came up that I expected later on in a more developed relationship. One was the opportunity to teach a one credit course, developed around information searching and data management on a lab level. The department head brought up that subject and was totally supportive and offered to back me on getting a more robust module into the curriculum. I’ll be formally meeting the faculty…