The interview went well. I've never been so nervous about anything in my entire life, however, much to my delight it turned out to be a really enjoyable experience. The search committee were very easy to talk to which helped put me at ease immediately. It was a really cozy community college located in a nice area. The city itself wasn't very big but there were a lot of communities ten, fifteen minutes away that were very scenic with lots to do. I'm hopeful, but also realistic. I've gone over all the details of the interview in my head and realize that there were some areas where I should have elaborated more and others where I should have focused my answer elsewhere. At any rate, it's my first experience interviewing for an academic position. At least now I know that I can do it, that I can get my foot in the door. If this one doesn't work out then I'll try for the next one.

In the meantime, I'm starting on a few new projects at work. Our library recently purchased a subscription to Book Letters, a service that makes it super easy to provide our community with e-newsletters on our website. They can subscribe to the newsletters through email. In addition to creating book lists, you can also create a simple list of links, which means, essentially, that I can make pathfinders on our website. Much more convenient considering the hard copies we've made rarely get used. We've also decided to do a Staff Pics newsletter. Each month I'll be pestering one of our staff members to create list of suggested reads for me to post.

I've also been working on bookmarking a lot of our states digitized government documents. Right now our del.icio.us account isn't really being marketed to the public. It's more or less only used by staff. My intention is to simply bookmark them now and hope that we can feed the links into our website in some way or another in the future. We've been hoping to do a redesign of our website for awhile, but unfortunately everyone is already swamped with other job duties right now. Anyway, I'm bookmarking the digitized gov't docs as an alternative to cataloging...at least for the time being.

I'm also hoping to get a little more involved with teen services this fall. I thought I would actually give a Teen Advisory Board a shot. Most of our staff have always been skeptical about TAB's simply because there's a belief that teens in our community are already "over-programmed" with school activities, but I figure it never hurts to try.