Update on the New Job

This past week I started my new job with Manchester University as the Instruction & Emerging Technologies Librarian. So far I'm loving it! The people I am working with in the library are amazingly nice and helpful and have welcome me and my pregnancy with genuine happiness (if you're coming to this news late - yep...the hubs and I are expecting in March!). I couldn't be more thrilled! The job itself is starting to pick up, and from the looks of it, I'm going to have a very full fall semester. So far, here's what I've been up to:

- I am the subject liaison to the schools of Business and Accounting, Education, and Exercise & Sports Science. I've been learning the pertinent databases that fit each of those areas, and soon I will be updating the online research guides with new content.
- I am also in charge of coordinating, scheduling, and instructing the majority of the first year seminar sessions (and eventually I will be teaching this as a full course). The instruction sessions are basic first-year research sessions, so it shouldn't require too much work since I did a lot of that with Harrison.
- I am in charge of implementing a chat reference service and a text reference service. Texting will be rolled out immediately and chat will follow for the spring semester. I've started getting coding together for the website and preparing for the launch.
- I am also responsible for setting up a campus-wide distribution of the Firefox browser in order to install zotero (a citation generator and management tool)
- Finally, I've been working to update our library Facebook page. It needs quite a bit of work!

In terms of instruction, after sending out the first email batch to faculty, I already have scheduled on my calendar more instruction sessions than I ever had with Harrison - all within a 2 hour time frame! This was just for the first year students and doesn't even count the subject liaison areas ... So needless to say, I will be a busy busy woman! But I'm loving it! I really feel like this will be a good fit for me and I am excited to see what new projects I'm able to get my hands on.