Change in the Wind
There have been a lot of personel changes here at work over the past six months. And recently, there have been two more. The acquisitions/serials librarian hired at the end of last year didn't work out, and he left late in the spring. Recently the cataloguing assistant was promoted the fill that job. I was approached about replacing her because I made a B in the cataloguing class I took over the summer. But that job would be nothing but sitting at a desk all day entering catalogue information, and as much as the people who come up to the desk annoy me sometimes, I think I would miss that interaction with the public.
And there's another change. The guy who was doing inter-library loan in the reference department has his MLS, but that position is officially non-professional. It was just announced that he has gotten a professional-level job at a community college library in the area. So the ILL job is available. I have been trying to decide if I should apply for it. It would be a small promotion, from "library assistant," to "library assistant senior." And I'd get out of this department. Plus, the work schedule would be more flexible and I will probably need that because next semester, or next fall, I'll be in the archives classes in my MLS program, and those are at another uni, in another town (although in the evenings one night a week, so that's helpful). And I may end up customising the program to include rare book classes taught at yet another uni, in yet another town, requiring further flexibility.
Any advice? I'll take it.

Change in the Wind
There have been a lot of personel changes here at work over the past six months. And recently, there have been two more. The acquisitions/serials librarian hired at the end of last year didn't work out, and he left late in the spring. Recently the cataloguing assistant was promoted the fill that job. I was approached about replacing her because I made a B in the cataloguing class I took over the summer. But that job would be nothing but sitting at a desk all day entering catalogue information, and as much as the people who come up to the desk annoy me sometimes, I think I would miss that interaction with the public.
And there's another change. The guy who was doing inter-library loan in the reference department has his MLS, but that position is oficially non-professional. It was just announced that he has gotten a professional-level job at a community college library in the area. So the ILL job is available. I have been trying to decide if I should apply for it. It would be a small promotion, from "library assistant," to "library assistant senior." And I'd get out of this department. Plus, the work schedule would be more flexible and I will probably need that because next semester, or next fall, I'll be in the arhives classes in my MLS program, and those are at another uni, in another town (although in the evenings one night a week, so that's helpful). And I may end up customising the program to include rare book classes taught at yet another uni, in yet another town, requiring further flexibility.
Any advice? I'll take it.

Change in the Wind
There have been a lot of personel changes here at work over the past six months. And recently, there have been two more. The acquisitions/serials librarian hired at the end of last year didn't work out, and he left late in the spring. Recently the cataloguing assistant was promoted the fill that job. I was approached about replacing her because I made a B in the cataloguing class I took over the summer. But that job would be nothing but sitting at a desk all day entering catalogue information, and as much as the people who come up to the desk annoy me sometimes, I think I would miss that interaction with the public.
And there's another change. The guy who was doing inter-library loan in the reference department has his MLS, but that position is oficially non-professional. It was just announced that he has gotten a professional-level job at a community college library in the area. So the ILL job is available. I have been trying to decide if I should apply for it. It would be a small promotion, from "library assistant," to "library assistant senior." And I'd get out of this department. Plus, the work schedule would be more flexible and I will probably need that because next semester, or next fall, I'll be in the archives classes in my MLS program, and those are at another uni, in another town (although in the evenings one night a week, so that's helpful). And I may end up customising the program to include rare book classes taught at yet another uni, in yet another town, requiring further flexibility.
Any advice? I'll take it.

Orientation
The weekend was pretty good, even without camping. It didn't rain as much inWinston-Salem as it did here, apparently. Last night the workman who's supposed to come look at my air conditioner, to fix the condensation problem which is ruining the plaster under the windowsill, called me to set up a time he can come by, and said he was trying to help some friend with a flooded basement.
I was amazed how much my nephew has changed just since Christmas, but he's still mad about the Wiggles.
Orientation started today. There's whole big bumper crop of first-year law students around. The law school over-accepted first year students. Rob read in the Wall Street Journal that several big, private universities over-accepted incoming students this year. It seemed to involve some new computer software or equipment these schools had switched to and used for the first time.