The Now: March 15, 2023

Greetings from Pittsburgh, PA! I'm in town for the ACRL Conference and had quite the delightful road trip up here. A colleague and I shared a car and proceeded to chat the entire way. It was a mix of work, personal life, and general discussion. I love working with great people.

Here's where I'm at:

1. ACRL Conference: The conference started with a wonderful keynote today and runs until Saturday. The offerings are many. Almost too many. I've tried to wrap my head around what I want to attend, but the online program is not great. Luckily, they handed us a conference-at-a-glace fold out at registration. I'm going to eat a Primanti Bros. sandwich and tackle that this evening. (Follow me on Twitter if you want a look at what I'm learning.) We present our poster on Friday and I'm already very excited to talk to lots of people.
2. Work Email Newsletter: I have our new platform up and running, moved our mailing list, created a new landing page, relinked said page everywhere, made a new subscription newsletter template, and will be sending our first newsletter on Thursday. I've still got lots to learn but I am so excited by all the functionality in this new platform. Just gotta keep building that opt-in subscription email list.
   
3. March Madness: I generally don't do basketball, but I do love brackets. I've put mine together with my usual technique of picking at random. I also helped kiddo pick hers. I find all the mascots and she gets to pick between the two to decide who wins. She's got Howard going far because she loved the bison, is a big fan of Fruman's purple knight, and has Montana State winning it all because she liked the "kitty!"

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