shinylib

Friends and colleagues were recently ragging on me about the lack of posts here at shinylib. In lieu of an actual post, I’ll just tell you what I’m doing that keeps me too busy to post.

If you work in an academic library, you know that late spring/summer is project season. PCC Library is totally no different, except many of the projects involve me (read: I’m in charge of) this year.

1. Chat reference.
   • PCC Library is finally getting it on virtual style. Our chat reference services will go live the first day of summer term.
   • We’re using Libraryh3lp to power this beast.
   • For some reason I said I’d be the one to do the coding for this. I have been endlessly mangling a copy of the Ask a Librarian page, but I’m getting it there.
   • I also have been powering the training program for the librarians.
     • + all of the documentation
     • + practices and procedures statements
     • + other junk I keep forgetting to plan in advance
2. Subject guides 2.0ish
   • We’re making the jump to using the Library A La Carte system this year. It’s an open source CMSy thing for our subject guides.
     • this involves much development and training: for me, for other librarians, for web team
     • props to my web team for the intense server work, I claim no responsibility for any of that magic
     • endless migration of content. props to my librarians for sucking it up and migrating their own content!
3. Manuscript
   • I’m finally trying to publish that thing. Yeah, that thing.
   • What up with the confusion, Chicago?
   • I’m trying really hard not to stick this on the back burner again. Is it sad that I have relatively little tolerance for anything non-APA?
4. I should really work on publishing that other thing. Which means I need to write it first. Heh.
5. Did you see my post about the CFP for ACRL NMDG @ALA Annual? Putting together an entirely new type of conference program takes some work. Not tons of work yet, but there’s work.
   • Props go to Merinda Hensley and Linda Hofschire for much work here
6. Speaking.
   • At OLA 2009
     • Librarians Can Help Me With That? Getting the Word Out About Your Reference and Instruction Services
   • At Oregon Virtual Reference Summit
     • Face-to-Space: Creating Buy-in for New Virtual Reference Mediums (check for video here, should be up soonish)
7. School is still in session. These are quarters, not semesters, buddy. No intersession here just yet. (That always makes me think of intercision, like do I just cut away the students? And would that make them demons or dæmons?)

And wait, there’s more. But I really don’t have time to talk about it right now. Those were the 8 minutes I had to spare. (:

I’ll leave you with a bonus… I’m just obsessed with this song at the moment.