I am back at work today after a few days on the road. Last Friday and Saturday I attended the Code4Lib Midwest meeting (you can see my smiling face front and center). Then I went to Pennsylvania to see Becky and go to her baby shower. Yikes, time flies.
Code4Lib was a great experience for me to meet others in the Midwest who have been doing work similar to me for much longer than I have. Someday I’ll make it to a national Code4Lib, but timing-wise this was perfect. As of tomorrow I will have been doing this job for a month, and now I begin to have a sense of what types of projects I will want to work on once the most urgent things are done. Also I am reassured that things don’t have to be perfect or the first idea the best one.
ALA Annual comes up in a few weeks. That’ll be quite a different experience, and not least because I’ll have to actually do something (i.e. present a poster).