Ah, digital history project I worked on just got picked up by Associated Press newswire!!!!!!! https://apnews.com/1ba72893d28349969b3947a5cb839ba4/Utah-historian-records-history-of-early-black-Mormons
Working on a blog post about this public history project that was just launched over the weekend: https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/welcome
Feel like I'm behind already at 9:30 on Monday, gonna try to dig myself out of all the little administrative tasks that are piling up.
Was on a ton of proposals for DLF and all of them got accepted 😱 Many of them are mostly reporting out on stuff or facilitating sessions, but still going to be super super busy heading into fall. Hope people at DLF Forum don't get sick of me....
Needing to hydrate after early morning walk in New Orleans, hanging out in hotel lobby watching netflix, enjoying Nick Frost's transformation into martial arts badass in Into the Badlands.
Am trying to get excited about opportunity to be all alone in a hotel room at ALA, so am packing face masks, serums, etc.
One nice thing about going up for tenure is people offering to write letters of support for me!
Discussing upcoming research projects and have like 3 I need to make progress on towards the fall, + one possible collab with hist faculty + backburnered project on metadata change.....
I don't know why working on my tenure file is making me think that everyone hates me and I'm no good, paranoia? Triggering impostor syndrome? Anyway, today has been unpleasant, but did get a lot done.
Things done today:
1) DLF AIG Group where I opened the meeting by talking too much about the buffet options for my kids at tennis summer camp
2) met with LIS student to talk about metadata
3) checked in with student worker about ongoing projects
4) made updates in OmekaS regional vocab site in prep for NISO presentation next week
Now, if I can get a couple of the "don't wanna do it" tasks done on my list, I'll have had a productive day after all.
Still am getting some good stuff done today. Not exactly the specific things I had planned, but getting other things done!
Feeling a bit blah and unproductive today. Going to push through it!!!!
It is my birthday tomorrow! Looking forward to taking the day off.
My kids electronic devices mysteriously disappeared over the school year, and we miraculously found them on the last day of school.
I really need to get my hair cut.
It is my birthday soon, hmmm.
Did a presentation on OmekaS exhibit today! So since January I've been working on training 2 new librarians, been on a search committee (which continues), and finished up getting 4 exhibits ready, in addition to my usual metadata work. That has been....a lot.
Trying to submit final author comments for an article with a cumbersome online editing system, which resulted in a software installation issue at work that I managed to solve just by getting different hardware (a non-managed PC that I borrowed from my husband and an extra mouse)
My goal next year is to NOT attend/present at my state library conference. It is always nice to say hello to people and see old colleagues, but there just isn't enough content there to help me learn much of anything new....I'd much rather have the time back I'm spending prepping for a presentation right now.
Have a day-long strategic planning meeting tomorrow. Going to strategize so much!!!!