A few of my favorite things...

Since I'm still short on time, I offer you another Wordle. This one's of my blog.
I was surprising how revealing this was. Bet you can't guess what
I'm daydreaming about now...can hardly wait for the seed catalogs to get here!!

Librarian in a Nutshell

I've been kinda busy lately as evidenced by lack of posting. Tomorrow my 2nd year dossier is due in it's near-final draft form. Creating a dossier for the tenure review process is an endeavor that elicits any number of adjectives (and expletives) at any given time. Some are positive - reflective, rewarding, creative. Others are, well, not as much - time-consuming, grueling, the rock on my shoulders...you get the idea.

The process of putting together into one document all of my endeavors and accomplishments that I've done in support of my job has been a great act of mental aerobics and weightlifting - combined with some yoga I think. I've used the process to (I hope) reflect on the projects I've taken on, and those that I hope to, in terms of the way that they both support my job assignment and contribute to the greater good that is Librarianship.

Yesterday some colleagues introduced me to a fun little tool called Wordle. I copied and pasted my entire dossier in to see what the tag cloud would look like, and it went a little something like this:

So there you have it - my professional life in a nutshell.