The Where and How

Last couple days have been about transportation and location.  The vehicles we wanted to get from the campus pool are already reserved so we have to come up with a different plan that will still be within budget.  Also, the building originally picked out for the Opening Ceremony is too expensive and has a high school dance the same night as our ceremony.  So that’s out.  On to Plan B at many levels.

Let them eat… something

After last week’s focus on scheduling speakers, this week’s focus has started with food.  Yes, food.  A very essential yet easily overlooked detail in event planning.  We’ll have visitors over the holiday weekend of July 4th and figuring out the logistics of feeding them is proving a little bit tricky.

Also followed up on the marketing grant project with a very brief summary of our ad and the results from it.  Basically, I think we learned from the experience that we need to look closer at online marketing over paper marketing.  Video? Social Networking? Gotta think about this more.

Email tag

Lots of lots of emailing today to schedule speakers for the Chinese library directors.  Sometimes I wonder if this kind of scheduling would be more efficient with just a phone call, but there is quite a bit of information to be sent out too.  I think opening the discussion with a phone call and following up with an email would probably be best, but then we’d just play phone tag in the same way we play email tag.  I don’t know — just something to be thinking about.

Schedules

We got our Chinese names in class today!

Work had a focus on scheduling.  Sent out my preliminary schedule for the summer, and also started a document for the Fall Associates Program schedule, which doesn’t have much on it yet.  Put the presentations for the IFLA-OCLC Fellows up at http://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/misc/IFLA-OCLC/

Chinese and Chinese

Today was the first day of my Chinese language class and it’s going to be awesome!  It means I’ll be working in the afternoons for the next three weeks.

Today was all about planning for the Chinese librarian visitors.  Emails to a few more speakers and a couple more confirmations have come in.

A work log blog

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Okay, so this blog has been pretty much dead for two years now.  Like a phoenix from the ashes, I am reviving it now as a sort of “work diary” … something I’ve tried a couple other times with other formats (text files, emails to self) but now that I’m pretty much taking my laptop to work every day again I figure I can just keep WordPress open in a tab and jot some notes to self.

Most likely these will be very short posts at the end of my day, trying to sum up where I’m at and what kind of strings need to be followed for the next day.  Wouldn’t it be oh-so-nice if I could keep this up?  Yes. Yes it would.