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New Opportunities
Filed Under Libraries, Professional Development
I know there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of readers out there who are just dying to hear about how my career is progressing, so this post is for all of you 
! Seriously, though, this past month has been full of interesting developments for me professionally.
First, I received a promotion to supervisor of adult technology assistants at MPOW. I’ve been at my library for just under a year now, so I’m grateful that my director and supervisor have enough faith in me to promote me already. I’ll be supervising a great group who do all they can to assist people using the adult services public computers. It’ll be interesting early on because we’ll be hiring three new assistants in the next few weeks. I guess there’s no better way to learn supervisory and management skills than to actually be hiring, training, and supervising new employees almost immediately! I’m actually very fortunate because the person who had the position before me had time to meet with me and give me a lot of great training. Thanks, Jenn, and good luck in England!
The second thing that has happened is I’ve started a part-time position with Oakton Community College’s library. I’ll be helping the library explore web 2.0 technologies and it’s all starting with a summer learning 2.0 program called Library 2.Oakton (get it!? two point o-akton!). It’s great because I can use my experience helping set up the 10 Things @ SPL program, but I get to tweak things a bit to fit the academic library world. The program just started this week and already we have some faculty and staff really getting the hang of blogging. Hi, OCC folk!
Btw, the Arlington Heights Memorial Library just launched their learning 2.0 program, Baker’s Dozen, for the public! Good stuff!
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Good luck with your Learning 2.0 program and your new management opportunities
Thanks Helene! Of course, Library 2.Oakton and the 10 Things @ SPL were both modeled after your 23 Things
Rich,
Yes, I know Seth Godin– not sure how I respond directly to your comment on my blog. Also, I like your blog, a nice mixture of the professional with the personal.
Uri
Hello Richard—Anyone who’s ever worked with you won’t be surprised about your promotion, and Skokie, both the library and the community, is one lucky lucky place. We’re still missing you here in T.O.!
Margaret
Thanks for the kind comments, Uri and Margaret!