An Update

As anyone who has moved and changed jobs both at the same time knows, you have little time for anything else in those few weeks.  We got moved in (with only minor problems) and I've been working for nearly a month now.  The folks I work with are fantastic, and troopers to boot.  I came onto the scene in the midst of an enormous renovation project.  Not one aspect of the library facilities was to remain untouched, and not one aspect of the project to date had gone smoothly (nor has it yet).  Contractor and subcontractor problems on top of just general utter chaos and not being able to find anything anywhere... you can imagine.  But to be honest, I think the best way to get to know your colleagues is to be thrown into the same chaos they're dealing with and work together to get things done.

A week into my new job we got to attend the Atlanta Area BIG (Bibliographic Instruction Group) day-long conference, and that was a good opportunity to get to know other folks in the area as well.  I am also looking forward to an excursion to Seattle next month for a week long immersion program on teaching, run by the Association of College and Research Libraries.  Since I'll be spending a good bit of time in the classroom, this opportunity comes at the perfect time.  I'm sure I'll have lots of thoughts on that once I return home!

In the meantime I'm going to rest up on the weekends, because there's lots of shifting and moving shelving to be done - and all this *before* I have to start working on the campus library where I'll be permanently located!

To Boldly Go....

Starting June 1, I will have a new job. (!!!)  My husband and I have been frantically looking for a house (and trying to sell our current one) for the last month, and it looks like that part of the process is coming to a close.  Yes, literally.  May 2 is our current closing date on our New House.  We're only moving about 80 miles, across a state line, and we will be Much Closer to a metropolitan city that offers lots of opportunities for an itinerant philosopher and a librarian.  I'll be running a branch campus library of a medium-sized community college - I'm very excited, but as always with a new job, approaching the change with a bit of fear and trepidation too.

The other librarians I've met seem like great folks, as do the folks on the campus where I'll be.  Even more fun and interesting?  I'll be working to set up the Brand New Library.  The campus is actually housed in a historic building downtown, and the new library will be a floor of the historic courthouse next door.  So the renovations are running apace, and I will get to be part of the set-up and implementation.  This will be the fourth such venture I've been a part of, and I'm hoping the last.  We would really like to settle down in one spot and finally take root in a community.   This one seems like a really good fit - for both of us - the location is good, the timing is good, and so as Julian of Norwich said; "All will be well and all will be well and all manner of things will be well."  Amen!