Librarian X

This is a quickie post — I’m just back from Internet Librarian 2009, and several people at my podcasting cybertour asked me to post my slides. So, here!

I’m never really convinced that my slideshows are much use on their own (otherwise why bother presenting? You could just look at the slides).

I had a good time slot and a lot of people turned up for this session — I’m just sorry I only had 15 minutes!

The latest episode is up (what, it’s still October). Enjoy!

 

 Adventures in Library Instruction episode 7 [65:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I’ve been so busy I haven’t blogged about this, but in addition to Instruction Librarian for User Education Technologies, I’ve just added Communication Liaison to my responsibilities. GSU has a very large Comm department: I’m handling the Journalism and Speech areas and my colleague Nedda continues to cover Film/TV and Theater (in addition to her other subjects; she covers all the arts departments, which keeps her remarkably busy).

I’ll be handling instruction, of course, which won’t be new to me, though some of the research areas will. First-year Speech classes aren’t very different from first-year English so far, but I’m going to have to get myself up to speed on rhetoric and journalism-related research for upper-division and grad classes. I’m also learning collection development, which is completely new to me but which I love so far.

I’m very excited about all this — it’s a big “next step” for me and one I’m really looking forward to.

Tomorrow (Thursday October 8th) I’ll be giving a presentation at the Georgia Council of Media Organizations (COMO) in Columbus, Georgia. My friend and colleague Sarah Steiner and I are presenting a session called “Finding Your Voice: Creative Ideas for Beginning a Pod- or Vidcast Series.” Say hi if you have a chance to attend.