The last two weeks have gone by in a blur. I’ve been trying to get my 15 minute presentation for the PNLA preconference ready. The session is called “The Young and the Restless: a new breed of library customer” and the presenter/facilitator is Aaron Schmidt. He’s one of the presenters that got me going on the right track to serving digital natives at a conference long ago. I’m on a panel within his session. The panel will make short presentations about what their library has done/is doing that addresses the ICFL Perceptions of Digital Natives on Public Libraries focus group report — and more specifically, what the DNs have to say on the DVD that came out of the study. Since the name of the session borrows a soap opera title, I went a little further. My little session is called… Days of Our (library) Lives: the Young and the Restless as our Guiding Light. Over the top, I know, but hey! It fits the theme AND the content.
What does all of this have to do with the interns? This week is the last that I’ll work with most of them. After PNLA, I’m going on a two week vacation. I’ll come home in time to go to the appreciation BBQ Laura is hosting for them, and then they will be leaving us to get ready to go back to school.
While I’m gone, they will be executing their group project, which is to unshelve, box, label, store ALL of non-fic. Then dismantle, move, and rebuild the shelves. Finally, they’ll measure CAREFULLY (interns, please read this!) and when the rows are perfectly spaced and super straight, they’ll restock the shelves, knock down the boxes, and eat pizza. I think they might have to eat pizza a few times before the job is done.
Ross will round up the posse and assign duties — and generally oversee the whole project. And like I said, I’ll be On. Vacation.
