One problem I am definitely finding in blogging is not having access to the Internet—or better said easy access to the Internet. I was not able to get back onto the Internet until today (Monday)—so the nifty reports I planned to make about the Wednesday happenings of the CIL now seem unimportant & certainly untimely.
I still want to mention, so all of our colleagues at Joyner are reminded about the great job that the NC ECHO grant team from Joyner (Linda Teel, Hazel Walker, and Justin Vaughn, along with Emily Gore and Lynn Wagne) did. They made a great & well received presentation at the CIL. I was certainly proud to be sitting in the audience and to hear them talk about the project & for them to demonstrate what a great site it is. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/
Later in the afternoon, I happened to run into a couple of old acquaintances from my time in DC. Both of them had attended the presentation & were efusive in their praise.
Speaking of praise—let me commend Cynthia Adams for going above & beyond on Wednesday, she drove up from Greenville to Arlington, to join me in a meeting with a longtime ECU & Joyner Library friend—Betty Debman Hunt. Betty is an educator and creator of the Mini Page; her generosity to the University has enabled us to create the Debman Center in the Teaching Resource Center. I had never met Betty before, so it was a great opportunity for me. We have invited her to come to campus next spring & to be a guest speaker at the Annual Summit for school librarians and media center staff.
This past weekend Sue & I spent in Williamsburg at the spring meeting of the ECU Foundation Board. It finally seems that spring has decided to make a re-appearance. I stayed busy with meetings discussing strategic planning for the Foundation, but during the breaks it was great to be outside & absorb the beautiful blue skies, fresh breezes, and spring blossoms. This is the first time that vice chancellors and deans have been invited to the board meeting, and the synergy seemed to be terrific. Mickey Dowdy has bringing a lot of excitement to the Foundation.
It is good to be back in the library—it was a long week away from the library and campus. It was also a troubling one with the horrific events at Virginia Tech. My heart goes out to all of the parents, families and friends of the slain students and teachers. Eileen Hitchingham, the Dean of the Virginia Tech Libraries shared a poem from Nicki Giovanni with her ASERL colleagues. You might want to see and hear it read by the poet on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMsloktqpeQ
Finally, I am hoping that some of our Joyner Library colleagues who attended the CIL will respond to this blog with some of their comments on the conference highlights—and there were a lot of them for me.
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