It’s been a while – the last few weeks have really flown by! We’ve been knee-deep in the interview process for another librarian to replace our outgoing Electronic Resources librarian. Being just two months old myself, it has been interesting to see the interview process from the other side and imagine what these candidates would be like to work with.
In terms of my job here, I have been so busy with tech projects I have had little time to do personal research of my own (not that I’m complaining – it feels good to feel needed!). In what was perhaps a stroke of genius, a colleague suggested a little competition to garner more “likes” for our Facebook page. Thus, lately we have been advertising that, as soon as our page gets 100 likes, we will randomly select one law student who has liked us to receive a $25 Starbucks gift card. The irony of this, of course, is that our advertising avenues are our Twitter and Facebook accounts, our blog, and our digital sign – if the students aren’t looking at these, they still do not know about the competition! Nevertheless the likes have started coming more quickly, and I think we’ll soon make our goal.
We are now exploring other social media to see how we can promote ourselves in even more and different ways. To be continued…
With students back, we are elbow-deep in sourcing projects for journals and orienting 1Ls and international students to the trappings of the library. I’ll admit that I quite enjoy the craziness and fast-paced world the beginning of the semester always heralds. It was great getting to start my job in the summer, in the quiet, but with the semester in full swing I feel like my law librarian journey has truly begun.
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