Summer Projects at ECC

Today at our librarians meeting we discussed options of what we, the librarians at ECC, might like to accomplish over the summer. We also looked through the FY10 goals sheet and evaluated whether there were items from that to still address. It appears we accomplished much of what we set out to do last year, though I of course only starting March 1st didn't do much to help out in this.

So, what to do this summer? There are 21 hours a week I have to work and the students don't have as many questions as usual, so thus some time for summer projects.

Some ideas for summer projects:

1. Develop an information literacy action plan (including goals for each Research Session)
   
2. Continue to weed if this is desired by the Collection Development librarian
3. Discover Web 2.0 and possible library outreach and implementation of these tools
4. Learn about teaching and presenting to be more effective in bibliographic instruction
5. Read about current events to relate to students - more relevant examples for sessions
6. Finish the Arthur Lourie research - research writing skills and organizing thoughts(my personal goal and not a work-related one)
7. Acquaint myself with the library resources & ECC classes - reference, videos, databases, etc.

YES, there are many things to do and I will use my time wisely over the summer. Thank God for better air-conditioning today in the library.