Guardienne of the Tomes

Keeping track of my reading is probably one of the best things I started doing this year. (Going back to my gym and personal trainer in Chattanooga once I'm moved will likely be the other.) Books Read in April 2010 Damaged by Alex Kava High Windows: poems by Philip Larkin Sestets: poems by Charles Wright Bells in Winter; poems Czeslaw Milosz Here, Bullet: Poems by Brian Turner Bethlehem In Broad Daylight: Poems by Mark Doty Slantwise: poems by Betty Adcock Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 by Ellen Bryant Voigt Broken by Karin Slaughter Jane Kenyon’s Collected Poems by Jane Kenyon Captive Heart by Phoebe Corr The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays and Notes on Poetry by Charles Simic Gravity: Stories by Michael Davis

Looking ahead at the Google calendar I am just started to use rigorously, I can see that November 2010 will be a busy month! November 5, 2010 is the Brick and Click conference. If you're going (and I hope you are, it's a highly recommended conference by folks I respect and admire), try to stop by and see me. I'll be presenting on "Managing the Multigenerational Library" and on "Leveraging Technology, Improving Service: Streamlining Student Billing Procedures." Making the month an all-Access bonanza, the 2010 Access Services Conference is November 10-12. I will be attending at least as a committee member (presentations pitched, but we'll see), and am very much looking forward to it, as I've heard that even in it's inaugural year of 2009 it one of the most useful conferences Access folks had attended. It is also relatively close to my home-to-be in Chattanooga, which is a lovely bonus. And then, of course, Thanksgiving is the 25th, and I have...

NCSU Libraries made it onto the local news! MyNC.com has the video here, where our own David Woodbury discusses our 30 iPads that we lend to NCSU library users as an extension of our technology lending program. Yes, thiry - three-zero - iPads. You heard him right. It was like Christmas. And they're being checked out at the circ desk, as the video shows. Hooray for my staff and student workers!

As time slips swiftly away and you are planning your conference travels, don't forget to see myself and Mary Chimato at Computers in Libraries on the morning of April 14th. We'll be in the "Learning: Expanding Our Knowledge" track, speaking about "discuss the managerial skills necessary for library staff who must adapt to rapidly changing technologies and how to help your staff develop and maintain the technical skills your library needs to keep its competitive edge." We're joined by Janie Hermann, who "looks at how to offer staff development opportunities throughout the year that actively teach technology and other important skills while engaging all staff in the learning process." It should be a great time - make sure you come see us if you're free!

Made it to 50 books in 2010 by the end of March! A pretty steady pace on the reading. I have moved away from the bodice-rippers and towards essay & short story collections, as well as books that presaged their movie counterparts. For April, I see a great deal of poetry. But, the list for March: Books Read in March 2009 The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle Life Makeovers: 52 Practical and Inspiring Ways to Improve Your Life One Week At A Time by Cheryl Richardson The Road by Cormac McCarthy Find Your Strongest Life: What the happiest and most successful women do differently by Marcus Buckingham I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman (poems) by Jude Nutter Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays by Eula Bass Push by Sapphire Face (poems) by Sherman Alexie Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite Bone Magic by Yasmine Galenorm So Cold The River by Michael Koryata You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier (Full list of this year's list of books I've read available...