Update on the survey on digitization and other random things

Wow...lately I have been all over the place. Into work to work on the library budget for next year which is challenging since our $180,000 in PFE is now bring used for ARC and basic skills. We fund many hourly librarians, student and lab assistants and subclerks to handle just our typical day. I will meet with them again on Monday to strategize.

then, to Long Beach to meet with Gregg Atkins and Eileen O'Shea from Infopeople for the April 27th workshop on social networking technologies: blogs, wikis, RSS feeds and how we can use them to reach out to our students. I can tell already that Eileen is perfect for these presentations. I also asked Robin Shapiro from PCC (but Portland) to come down and demonstrate how they are fusing library research skills into the WebCT environment. It will be great!

Then, I am personally contacting the 30 libraries who have not responded to the digitization survey...wow, is it time consuming but so far, the results have been good. We are now up to 88 respondents (there are some duplicate reponses so I will dela with that). Since I want to do a planning grant, I really want 100% responses...it is very impressive, shows the interest and support, AND the data to be gathered from large as well as smaller community college libraries. Hmmm...I have been thinking of running it nationally as well...a convenient sample would be fine, I think. Not hard to do as well...

Then my campus survey is on the back burner...ready to go but I haven't done it yet. top shelf for next week.

and my sabbatical is whittling away....just 3 more months. I have grown so much this year in so many ways (and I have receded a bit as well since I lost 40 pounds!) All is good...I feel reenergized. Now, if I don't drive the PCC library staff crazy with all my ideas...

"Ah, but a woman's reach should exceed her grasp or what's a heaven for?"
--apologies to Tennyson