2 1/2 weeks in, I have to say – I’m certainly not bored.
In addition to plugging along with planning for the website (and general technology planning), I’m now diving in to managing our electronic resources, reaching out to faculty to get them on board with the website & libguides, helping coordinate administrations of both SAILS and LibQual+, working on my first proposal for a conference presentation, and dealing with the aftermath of a water break and resulting mold issue.
Dealing with the electronic resources is the biggest challenge for me – as a library student and in various internships, I really never did anything on the back end of electronic resources. This is the one thing that I have been going into pretty much blind…but I really want our students and faculty to be able to access this content from one centralized location (our website), rather than the several different sites and passwords they currently have to navigate. So I’ll figure it out, and it will be another skill for the resume =). Really I’m not sure that the catalog we’re currently using can handle it, but I’m pushing for a switch to something better and more extensible in the near future so I may actually consider it a plus if this helped expedite the change.
My only real frustration is getting approval / money to start doing testing for the website. Well, and getting the head IT guy to get back to me about CMS issues. If I haven’t made any progress on either of these by the start of next week, it’ll be time to start twisting arms.
And as to the mold, just don’t ask. All I have to say is, keep your library dry.
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