The Now: April 21, 2021

In a team meeting today, we realized we need to start talking summer projects. I am so not ready for that. It seems like just yesterday we had our Christmas tree up... but no, it's nearly May. 

Work

• Just one more session in our Faculty Webinar Series. I sent the first reminder for said session this morning.
• A colleague and I are doing a syllabus review project. We want to compare course syllabi to our collections. We also want to determine where the library can support assignments and teaching. We just spent some time downloading about 600 syllabi from our Community College courses. Today, I drafted a document listing some questions to consider and what we should track. Now I think we move on to the next step - data entry. This is going to take awhile.
• I drafted a final report for our intern's work this week. I just need to add in his final hours and then it can go off to his practicum supervisor.
• Our website revamp forges ahead. We finalized our proposed site map and I drafted a basic wireframe graphic of the homepage. Now we discuss next steps and probably create an unpublished version to play around with.
• LOEX is in mid-May. Two colleagues and I are in the midst of drafting our presentation, slides, and conference proceedings.

PERSONAL

• I am making slow but steady progress in linking the titles in my Reading List page. I had hoped to finish it by the end of this month, but I doubt I'll make it. I still have 10 years of books to cover.
• This week, I broke out the step ladder to dust our ceiling fans and hanging light fixtures. I try to do this twice a year. Somehow, only one of the fans was really dusty. The others were oddly fine.
• I spent one evening this week doing my monthly "photo management." I download pictures of my phone and our kiddo's daycare app. Then I make sure they get renamed, filed, and backed up. I also share select images to the grandparents album. 

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