The past couple of weeks have been very busy at work, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m getting the opportunity to be creative in so many different ways and I really feel like I’m making a contribution. Besides my regular reference and collection management duties, I’m also working on a lot of programming for the library, including an upcoming event to celebrate APA (Asian Pacific American) Heritage month and the first-ever Thousand Oaks Reads — One City One Book program. I’m actually in charge of creating a separate website for the program so it’s pretty exciting for me. The site isn’t available to the public yet, but as soon as it is, I’ll post the url here. I’m also busy trying to prepare for two new classes we’re offering, one on blogging and the other on Flickr.
With everything that’s going on at work, it’s been a struggle for me to keep up with my feeds. I realized that I’m subscribed to so many feeds that missing even one day of checking my Google Reader account creates a huge pile of content to read through for the next day. With CIL 2007, there seems to have been even more posting from blogging librarians, so it’s been even tougher to keep up.
The topic that really caught my attention from all the CIL-related discussions is change management, which David Lee King presented on. Click here for some good notes on the presentation and here for DLK’s pdf files for all three (!) of his CIL presentations. Mental note: find some way to get over to the CIL 2008 conference!