Life, the universe, and everything
I am looking forward to the coming months in many ways: I finally have an Academic Library Job, I get to do a little bit of everything, and I am honored to be able to blog about my experiences here on the ACRLog. On the flip side, I am also filled with deep concern and trepidation about the coming months: I am a one-person-library at a new branch campus of a regional community college, the library director AND his assistant have both just left for other positions, and I don’t want my posts to make ACRLog readers groan and ask, “who gave this nutcase a login here?”
Hopefully I’ll be able to bring a little bit of all these things to the table, and perhaps add a perspective that’s a bit unusual in the world of academic librarianship. My greatest concern these days is not that I don’t currently have a boss down at the main campus – or even an administrative assistant who knows probably more than the boss did. It’s not that I’m working in the brand new building of the brand new campus, struggling with the typical “start-up” issues that any new school facility might face. No, my biggest worry is the fact that I’m *it* - I’m the lone librarian covering all the hours, handling all the responsibilities, answering all the questions, making all the collection development decisions… everything except the actual cataloging, which is handled elsewhere. (But that’s a whole other post by this wanna-be cataloger!)
I wonder how many one-person-libraries are out there these days? I suppose I really can’t claim to be running the show solo – I do have colleagues at the other branches, and my books arrive already catalogued. So I don’t actually do everything, just ALMOST everything. But it’s still a struggle, even two months into the first semester. I have to close the library to teach an instruction session. …
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Life, the universe, and everything
I am looking forward to the coming months in many ways: I finally have an Academic Library Job, I get to do a little bit of everything, and I am honored to be able to blog about my experiences here on the ACRLog. On the flip side, I am also filled with deep concern and trepidation about the coming months: I am a one-person-library at a new branch campus of a regional community college, the library director AND his assistant have both just left for other positions, and I don’t want my posts to make ACRLog readers groan and ask, “who gave this nutcase a login here?”
Hopefully I’ll be able to bring a little bit of all these things to the table, and perhaps add a perspective that’s a bit unusual in the world of academic librarianship. My greatest concern these days is not that I don’t currently have a boss down at the main campus – or even an administrative assistant who knows probably more than the boss did. It’s not that I’m working in the brand new building of the brand new campus, struggling with the typical “start-up” issues that any new school facility might face. No, my biggest worry is the fact that I’m *it* - I’m the lone librarian covering all the hours, handling all the responsibilities, answering all the questions, making all the collection development decisions… everything except the actual cataloging, which is handled elsewhere. (But that’s a whole other post by this wanna-be cataloger!)
I wonder how many one-person-libraries are out there these days? I suppose I really can’t claim to be running the show solo – I do have colleagues at the other branches, and my books arrive already catalogued. So I don’t actually do everything, just ALMOST everything. But it’s still a struggle, even two months into the first semester. I have to close the library to teach an instruction session. …
Tags:
Campus,
College,
School
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Tags: Campus, College, School
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on wtorek, październik 21st, 2008 at 9:11 przed południem and is filed under Library school.
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