Today's fun included a librarian's meeting. More discussion of whether or not to drop our subscriptions/package with Publisher X and still no resolution. Dropping it seems like the right thing to do, but there's some fear of political fallout with the new president starting January 1 and fears of ILL requests increasing more than they already have over the past year or so. The ILL piece is sort of a 'victims of our success' issue.
Finally did J's performance evaluation. HR never asked for a 90-day review for him, so the timing was weird, but I don't have to worry about it again until June.
Began planning for the library Christmas party. (FYI, Mary--All plans, except for the date and time, are considered TOP SECRET until the party. There's major competition to one-up the previous year's party.)
Heard back from ITS that they don't think we need access to our shared main extension, but only our individual extensions. Sent them (via Jeanne) text for a message to record and a question about how they're going to let us know if someone leaves a message on the main extension rather than an individual one.
ALA Stuff: Heard back from C that she's accepting the appointment to fundraising coordinator. Reviewed a call for proposals for the ALCTS CMS Pub Committee forum for Annual. At some point, I should be called on to review the Sudden Selector's Guide to children's materials. Not sure where that is in the publication process, though.
Things to think about: Adding cost per download to the periodicals review lists.
I am glad to be here!
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