Number 10

I am on assignment number 10; the end is in sight.

This assignment seemed to have clumped together a wide array of things, some of which we had touched on earlier. I did, however, use our library as the jumping off point for visiting and revisiting the various sites. I needed an excuse to re-watch that absolutely hilarious video of our staff attempting to sing a tribute song about the Indianapolis Colts. [Aside: Ana deserved a raise for getting that group to the point of almost carrying a tune.] And it was a little scary to discover that all of those cable TV blurbs we agree to do under pressure on the occasional Thursday morning live on forever on the Internet.

The online ask-a-librarian-your-question was an interesting experience. I spent a lot of time waiting, not knowing if I was still connected to the librarian or not, since there were long, long gaps with no "chat" occurring. As it turned out, my question was a real one (it relates to a project I am working on at the library) and the librarian unfortunately didn't find anything additional for me. I was hoping for the proverbial killing of two birds with one stone (a rather grisly saying, if you think about it), since I could in theory fulfill my assignment and get info for my project, but alas and alack, my hopes were in vain.

I will continue to think about what we should be doing at the library with all these cool new tools.