Killer Cold on a Stick

This week, half of the people in my department have a killer cold, including me. It started with a slightly scratchy throat about 5 a.m. on Sunday morning, and by the end of breakfast it was in full gear. So I've been loading up on the zinc lozenges and soup this week.

Not much this week on the 2.0 front, I'm afraid. One bright thing in the week was getting my "congratulations on completing 23 Things" package, with the memory stick and lanyard (I like lanyards.) I still need to get my head around the idea of this portable medium, and how it can fit into the greater scheme of hard drives, network drives, shared network space, backups ("we don't need no stinkin' backups" seems to be the philosophy around here, at least as far as one's own computer is concerned.) I'm excited to think that there will be more Things to learn later this winter - something to look forward to once the cold weather hits. (Apropos of nothing, tomorrow my family is going to the Renaissance Festival, which may be about as un-2.0 as one can get these days, but we're looking forward to it.)

Time to drink more fluids, or maybe have a cough drop.

Meetings & More Meetings

I have a full plate of meetings today: a departmental meeting, a faculty committee (librarians at my institution don't have faculty status, but we represent the libraries on certain groups), then a presentation and search committee interview. We're hiring a webmaster for the libraries, and we're learning some things in the process. As library folks, we have little experience in either web design or back-end programming, and we're realizing that these are very different things. Our candidates will be strong in one area, but not the other. How do we decide what we need more? We need to make a decision soon.

New student orientation idea

After my last post, I came across this idea from the Information Wants to Be Free blog: a slide show/movie library orientation. Quite 2.0, and not too complicated.

The Blog Goes On, and school begins

It's the first week of classes. I did two presentations today in Finance classes (30 minute show-and-tell about the best resources for their research.) This week I've been working on library instruction and getting my research guides updated on the library website. I did do a little bit in Facebook and LinkedIn (connected with a few more people), but not a lot of 2.0 learning this week. I did find out that our public printers have been having memory problems for the past several weeks, and sometimes give a "not enough memory" message when people try to print pdfs. Printers having "issues" - not a pretty situation.