At 7 pm tonight, I will complete my final assignment as an MLIS student.*
I’ve enjoyed my time in the program at San Jose State University. I’ve made some invaluable connections, both professional and personal. I’ve learned much more about librarianship in the last two years than I could have on my own and while I do have one or two strong objections to the program, overall I am pleased with the experience.
Outside of school, it’s been a good year. I was selected as a 2012 ALA Emerging Leader last month and will be working with ACRL and five other fabulous librarians to assess professional development resources for librarians teaching online distance education information literacy courses. This follows on the heals of working as a Student-to-Staff rep for ALA an Annual last June.
This coming year, in addition to working with my Emerging Leaders project group, I’ll be serving on the ACRL Conference Innovations committee to plan for the 2013 conference. I’ll also be working with the always amiable, never-uninspired Young Lee to coordinate a multi-day Unconference for CARL in April.
What will I do with all my free time now that I’m no longer in class? Hard to say. Read. Blog. Learn more code. Work on the LACHS website. Garden (if house = true). Teach. Get back into my personal research interests. I can’t say for sure. The plan for now is simply to be still. Then go from there.
*My presentation will be on “GIS and the Spatial Humanities.”
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