This Week in Libraries

I read about This Week in Libraries in an older issue of American Libraries (I'm always so behind on reading those), and I would highly recommend checking it out.

This Week in Libraries is a periodic series of video interviews with library-related folks from around the world.  The video interviews are conducted by two Dutch librarians: Erik Boekesteijn and Jaap van de Greer. 

They aren't airing any new episodes just yet (they're supposed to start up again sometime this month), but there are 62 older episodes to watch.  I've watched four so far, and while some are less relevant to me than others, they all have some interesting tidbits.  Plus, they are the perfect length to watch during my lunch break.

Floundering

I feel as though I am floundering a bit in my job. Sure, I'm getting stuff done - lately a lot of number and data crunching. But just that vague feeling that there has to be something more, some truly intriguing project that will make a difference. And it's only going to get worse as summer approaches.

Summer is downtime for librarians in academia. The spring semester is often quiet but summer is even quieter. Not nearly as many classes, very little instruction to be done, mostly self-guided projects. I find the transition to summer so difficult.

Any suggestions for how to self-motivate? Any ideas for cool library projects?

Library Taser Incident Revisited

Well, they finally concluded that the police officers "used excessive force and poor judgment" in the tasering incident I blogged about back in November. Read the Chronicle write up here. Barbara Fister also has a thorough post on the story on ACRLog.