A New Turn For The Blog!

Never fear, readers, I'm not done blogging! I've recently begun an assignment for my IST 605 class at Syracuse, Reference and Information Services. I really like the class so far and feel like I'm learning a lot of the ins and outs of being a reference librarian. My professor has given us a pretty cool assignment of interviewing and shadowing a reference librarian. I picked the fantastic head of Adult Services here at the Westerville Public Library, Nieca Nowels. I suspect Nieca will also be able to teach me quite a bit about management as well, which will also come in handy with my IST 614 library management class.

Anyways, that said, I'll be blogging about my experiences with Nieca and what I'm learning about the reference experience. I hope you'll keep reading!

I also just wanted to mention that I participated in a really cool project for the IST 605 class last night. Another student and myself role-played (wait until I finish this sentence, Mom) librarian and patron so that we could each get a sense of how to search for answers to someone's question while abiding by appropriate online etiquette. We both did pretty well, if I do say so myself, even if I had to figure out that when her character said "poet's surprise" she meant "Pulitzer Prize." Reference is like a fantastic treasure hunt with a great payoff of helping someone. I really enjoyed it and look forward to doing more searching in the future.

Also, I am superwoman because in addition to completing a bunch of homework last night, I welcomed fall with open arms and an apron. In short, I made an apple pie from scratch. (Crust and all!)