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Haven't posted in a while...writers block I think. Anywho, I've met with quite a few people since last I wrote, so here are there pics and I've learned a lot from each. Will write more soon.

M&Ms

Today I met again with Moises, and this time he let me add in two e-reserves. For most of the rest of the day I spent time with Mark learning about many of the different things he does. Including pulling money from the machines, which was pretty cool.

I also shadowed Sarah on the reference desk for a bit and read some more articles about disaster recovery for the lit review.

Just Water...I'm Such a Cheap Date

First this morning I met with Moises to learn about e-reserves. I think it might have been better to schedule this meeting for the first week of classes because they are kind of slowing down this week. There wasn't much to do this morning, but Moises did have one reserve and he walked me through the process of adding it to the professor's e-reserve page.

Since the meeting with Moises was a lot shorter than I expected, I spent the rest of the time trying to print out articles for the pack back lit review and then I shadowed Dave and Jason on the reference desk for a bit.

Then I had the JSTOR/Project Muse meeting. I think this is going to be an interesting project.

After the meeting I ran into Michael Rivera and we had a water and talked about some things. I met with him again later in the afternoon and went through the towers and he talked about running lists and organizing the move to the new FAL. I almost forget sometimes that they're going to have a big move too.

In between meetings with Michael I had some free time again so I spent time shadowing Heidi at the reference desk. Its kind of neat to see the different ways people handle the reference desk.

After meeting with Michael I met with the lit review team with Dan, Ann, and Teresa. I've never been part of publishing an article before so I think it will be interesting experience.

Deserted Fridays

I spent most of the day today working on the pack back lit review. For some reason, no one wants to meet on Fridays so these are usually really slow days.

I did meet with Teresa for a while again today to talk about subject guides and computer support. She also told me a lot about the resident selection process. I think it will be really interesting to get to see how it all works from the search committee side rather than the candidate side. Teresa told me about some of the crazy answers people have given and unusual things they have done-she said one girl even started to take off her clothes during her presentation!

Then I shadowed Dan on the reference desk for a while. It was kind of neat to see him in action. I wouldn't have guessed he would be so good at helping people, but there was a couple that was looking for information about copyrights and he whipped out the Library of Congress website and showed them all of the information they could find there. He was really nice to them and they stuck around for a long time talking about how much libraries have changed.

Later, Teresa came by with the pack back "tool" which just makes my head hurt.

The Juggernaut that is the Pack Back

Today I started off with my regular meeting with Teresa. I always think I don't have anything to talk about until I show up in her office and then I somehow take up the entire hour.

Next, I met with Kathleen, who showed me how she maintains the reference section and processes new reference materials. Then we went for free pizza (I'm really going to miss welcome back days!) and after I shadowed her on the reference desk for about an hour. We had one kind of tough question. A guy wanted to know which movies were playing at the Spanish theater in Santa Fe in the 40s. Since all of the microfilm of the Albuquerque and Santa Fe newspapers from that period are in Texas, we tried the Center and they had a few from Santa Fe and Kathleen suggested that he try the public library for the Albuquerque papers.

While I was at the reference desk, Dan came by to see if I wanted to go to the Gale training. The session was pretty informative, but I mostly learned not to sit next to Dan at instruction sessions. :)

We had to leave early to go to the ZPS meeting, where we talked about the pack back and everything that is going to happen in the next couple months. The pack back is taking over everyone's brains right now.

After the meeting, I had my last session with Clay. I really enjoyed billing. It was kind of nice to be able to clear fines and add money back to people's accounts.

My First Green Chili Stew

Today I met again with Mark and learned how to use the instruction room. He said that the chairs are all broken, but that there was supposed to be a lifetime warranty. So I learned that it is important to keep copies of those types of things even if you think someone else is taking care of it.

Next I met with Jason to learn about newspapers and reference. He also showed me the e-reference page and explained about ready reference and periodicals. We also talked a bit about making movies and videos. It seems that all of this is really big in Albuquerque right now. Jason even said they're filming a movie with Kevin Costner (I think that's who he said) right down the street, but his house was short-listed!

After meeting with Jason, I went with Kathleen to get some free green chili stew at the welcome back day tent. It was pretty good, but she said it is usually much hotter. I think it would have been even better that way!

Then I met with Pat to learn about working as an assistant in the office area. It sounds like she helps take care of a lot of people. She said she does projects for Nancy, Johann, Patricia B., Patricia C., Martha, and the business office!

Round Two with Russ and Clay

Its amazing how many books are crammed onto only two floors of the library. Today Russ took me around to tell me about shelving projects and student workers.

I also met again with Clay, this time I got to click the buttons. :)

And we had another pack back meeting. Its getting close!