• learning,  Library

    Media companies and reference service

    I seem to be developing a reputation for getting the most random questions through all of our sundry reference avenues. If there was a contest, today would have crushed it. I was sitting at the reference desk fielding the usual when an L.A. call came through. It was someone associated with a media company looking to use our library as a filming location for a tv show. I looked them up. It’s legit. So to that, I ended up calling a number of administrators and gathering a list of contact names to pass along to this guy. I learned a bit more about our institution. And it sure beats the…

  • Library,  Personal Thoughts

    Check in with random thoughts

    As I look back, my last post was on the 19th of August–exactly 18 years that I was at my previous job. I’m just ending my 14th week at the new job and I find that I don’t think about my old job much. Overall the new job is going well. I turned in my goal targets for the year. These included committee work, expanded liaison work to previously unserved departments, workshops to design, and more. Pretty typical. Interestingly, in the last few minutes of the day, I got an email to be on my first search committee from our UL. So that will be added to the list as…