First Morning

It's June 8, my first day at UHD! This feels more like a twitter-style posting than a blog post, but I'm delighted to find that when I got here at 7:30, folks were here and ready to go. I'll be in UHD new employee orientation until some time this afternoon, then begin following up with my list of tasks -- already more than a handful of things to get working on.

I have a list of 30+ books and resources I am interested in reading related to library web sites, design, and organizing information. My first impulse was to purchase them for a personal library, but when the cost hit over $1300 on Amazon, I switched to a "borrow it" way of thinking and was amazed to find most everything I wanted was available in the UHD or UH-system libraries!

A Return to Librarianship

After 15 years in the software industry, I'm returning to the world of Academic Librarianship at the University of Houston - Downtown. My position will be Web Management Librarian. I'm excited about the opportunity to serve the students and faculty in their research.

In addition to getting up to speed on the operations of the UHD Library, I'm interested in checking out what ALA and TLA are doing in the area of web technologies and design, as well as the Texas Digital Library project.

In creating this blog I noticed that some libraries have created their own search gadgets -- I'm thinking of exploring that idea for UHD.