Urban Poly Princess

Today USU hosted the CVLA. One of their librarians gave a presentation on primary sources and the visiting director of the West Mountain Digital Initiative gave another presentation. It began with a business meeting that focused on the structure we would like to have. A bylaw committee was formed and I decided to join and nominate others when it looked like USU and Logan library were going to determine everything-something I DON'T want ALTHOUGH I appreciate and LOOOVE their support I REALLY want our organization to meet the needs of the smaller public libraries AND the bulk of the public school libraries throughout the area too. Of course what I want doesn't really matter, what does matter is what the group would like to have happen. I'm so glad I got the ball rolling but the organization belongs to the members not to me. I loved the tour of the USU library. They have an automated system that both looks and acts like a couple of automated parking lots in Waikiki only instead of storing cars, the system stores shelves of books. As items get digitized that'll be less and less of a problem. Anne from the USU library was my tour guide. She did an excellent job. As fascinating as their work can be, I'm definitely interested in becoming a public librarian. I like serving the needs of the general population. I'm glad I started in academic however. It will make me more versatile. I'm grateful I get to determine what shape my library takes. I tried to call Lynn Lemon but he never did get back to me after my email. Perhaps he's trying to keep his options open and explore different people and possibilities. Perhaps they've selected someone else. I've done everything so now I leave it in my Father in Heaven's hands. Maybe I'll volunteer at Logan public OR North Logan. Logan is the closest and would require the least amount of travel time.