We’re finishing up reviews of IPPs that staff submitted to me last month. So far this is an easy task; we have a fine team here at NWL. This is a good place for me to be learning the basics of performance management.
Met again with Lisa White, my Constructivist Listening partner. I don’t think it breaks any confidences to say that we have worked very well together in the past, and our rapport continues. Even though we’re both pretty chatty, it turns out that we’re also good listeners. We try and mostly succeed at curtailing the questions and comments.
2.0 stuff is going fairly well. We have a few people less enthused than others, some citing time as the concern, while others wonder about actual relevance. Still, it is a learning opportunity that most are enjoying. I’m a bit behind, but hope to be current by week’s end.
Something I’m doing at home seems relevant to the 2.0 phenomena raging here at MCL. Last night, as part of a PBEM game (play-by-email), I wound up using Yahoo Instant Messenger to create a collaborative story with another game-player. We would write what our person was thinking and doing, and then ‘tag’ the other person to respond. The narrative flowed back and forth, with both of us sharing direction of the plotline. It’s like those things we did in High School where a person would write a sentence and then pass it to the next person, but way better because this was far less random. It’s a really great tool for seeing how characters will interact together. Somehow I think perhaps reader’s advisory or reference work could benefit from some of this, particularly in cases where the library person is in a small town or other remote location. Why not just call them? Because you can copy and paste from these IM sessions, generating an answer you can print.
Something to think about…
NWL Teen Councillor Lily came in for some help finding information for a project, and was proudly grinning to show off the lack of braces. She was kind enough to ask about if I got that job I wanted (presumably this one), and assured me that this is a tight-knit library. She’ll be involved in the Teen Council’s video shoot March 1st, she admitted with faux regret. She reminds me a bit of Hermione Granger (well, Emma Watson).
