Fear My Nerd Power!
As Lorna mentioned, I am now an Award-Winning LibrarianTM. At the annual meeting of the San Andreas Chapter of SLA, I was given the Mark Baer award. I believe my reaction upon realizing that the person they were talking about was me was "Holy crap!". I probably said that out loud. I did have had some wine with dinner. The idea of winning a "library" award is a bit odd since I think mainly of my librarian-ness as an appendix description of myself.
There's some pretty illustrious company for me on the list of past award winners. Unlike many of them I was awarded it not for a lifetime of librarian godliness (HA); instead, I was given it for my work in getting our chapter up on a blog this year. The actual technical aspects of that weren't exactly difficult - not for a super user blogger like me. No, the real challenge was dealing with people who just didn't seem to get it. I sort of had a hard time with that because it seemed obvious to me that the time was right for us to do this and there really wasn't anything resembling a downside. So it was a challenge to get that "evidence" together and get everyone on board. Or at least, the hell out of the way.
There is still this big list of things I wish we could have done this year - related to the blog or at least our communications technology. But as with all of the optional stuff in one's life sometimes other things get in the way. I'm turning over the chairmanship of the website committee to someone else next year. I'm sure they'll take what I think is a decent foundation and do something really spectacular with it.
(Um, I totally do not have butch hair or abs like in that picture but my boobs are Just. Like. That.)
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