The Now: March 30, 2022

Too much graphic design work today means that I am incapable of stringing a coherent introduction together. (It took me three attempts to write that sentence.)

​Here's what's been going on for me.

WORK

• I have spent more hours than I care to count designing and updating the program for our University's research week. Luckily, I got to use the template I made for last year's event. Unfortunately, I am still waiting on numerous session details to roll in. I have to tweak the entire program every time I add new information. I will be very happy when I am done with this project.
• I sat on the review panel for the library's faculty tenure portfolios. Luckily, all the committee members were on the same page and it was easy. I work with a bunch of really great people.
• We've got two open positions and I am on the hiring committee for one of them. We finished reviewing the applications and decided on who we want to interview.  We want the interviewees to present to the library staff, so we finalized our plans for that.
• I present at Computers in Libraries tomorrow. I polished off my slides and uploaded them to the platform. In the meantime, I am semi paying attention to the first two days of sessions while I get my regular work done.
• There is one session left in our spring webinar series! (I'm already hard at work figuring things out for the next academic year.)
• I submitted a chapter proposal for The Practical Leadership Cookbook. I want to discuss how improving internal communications can reduce traditional library silos to improve collaboration and workflow efficiencies. 

PERSONAL

• My in-laws were in town this past weekend and it was a great visit. The weather cooperated enough that we got to see some of the cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin. We also joined the kite festival for a bit. Our kiddo colored and flew her own kite! She was far more interested when it flew low and she could run through the tail strings.
• We got to have a date night while the grandparents were in town and OMG I missed those! Going to start following up on some of the babysitter names I've collected from various l local list-servs.

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