Why, hello there!
Um, hi. *waves* Got back from two weeks in California on the 2nd, still reacclimating self to the COLD. (But it snowed yesterday and I do love snow! Well, fresh snow. Day-old/weeks-old snow is just gross and depressing. You can see how winter is a bit manic for me...)
At work last week, we had a strategic planning meeting for the next five years (I should say, a kick-off strategic planning meeting; the whole thing will take all spring semester). There are many doom & gloom articles about the death of academic libraries lately, which really just means that we need to reinvent ourselves. Thankfully, our library director is awesome and really wants to do great things. He believes in pretty much everything I do for the future of libraries. ... Unfortunately, the majority of our staff are indifferent. I was super-depressed last week when I was coming up with ideas for the strategic planning meeting and realized that while I am totally ready and willing to start a revolution, I am sadly lacking in revolutionaries. So while my supervisors are willing to let me play and explore whatever ideas I come up with, no one ever wants to help me out. And so I have a lot of what I think are great ideas, but they involve greater buy-in than I'm getting. I am only one person and I'm already stretching myself to the limit (possibly beyond the limit... so exhausting...).
Nothing else to say really... I feel so dull and boring. /o\
This entry was originally posted at http://winkingstar.dreamwidth.org/281756.html.
At work last week, we had a strategic planning meeting for the next five years (I should say, a kick-off strategic planning meeting; the whole thing will take all spring semester). There are many doom & gloom articles about the death of academic libraries lately, which really just means that we need to reinvent ourselves. Thankfully, our library director is awesome and really wants to do great things. He believes in pretty much everything I do for the future of libraries. ... Unfortunately, the majority of our staff are indifferent. I was super-depressed last week when I was coming up with ideas for the strategic planning meeting and realized that while I am totally ready and willing to start a revolution, I am sadly lacking in revolutionaries. So while my supervisors are willing to let me play and explore whatever ideas I come up with, no one ever wants to help me out. And so I have a lot of what I think are great ideas, but they involve greater buy-in than I'm getting. I am only one person and I'm already stretching myself to the limit (possibly beyond the limit... so exhausting...).
Nothing else to say really... I feel so dull and boring. /o\
This entry was originally posted at http://winkingstar.dreamwidth.org/281756.html.