I went to a CARL mini-confernce yesterday and the program was on writing for the LIS profession. The speakers were really great and it lit a fire under me to consider writing about some things I have done at Santa Clara that might be of interest.
I have a couple of things I’m thinking about. I would really like to write about theAJSU SLIS Jobseekers website (well, me and my colleage, who asked me if I would be interested in writing something with her). A group of us put this project together without ever meeting in person. We did all of our communicating on the internet. We would like to write up something about our experience.
Another thing I would like to write about is my experience putting together what we called a “cyberspace survival fair.” We came up with the idea last year and have done this for a couple of years now. A few of us from the library, myself and another librarian, and a couple of people from our Technology Training department set up some tables in our student union and provided “games” for the students to do to introduce them to library services. This past year we gave away an ipod mini, and that brought all kinds of people to our table to do games like, “try to find this scholarly article in under 5 minutes” and “can you guess the fake website?” Funny, eh? I’d love to write up something about that.
The problem is I don’t know where to start…So that’s why I’m posting a little something about it here. Maybe I can throw the ideas around here a bit and it will help me pull together some kind of article out of it.
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