This and that
Spring break is a holding pattern for academic libraries; as I expected, Rohan, Oz and Avalon have held their peace since the interview and calls two weeks ago.
Oh, I didn’t even mention that Avalon called, did I? Well, they did, unexpectedly, and they sound like a pretty good fit, all in all. I’m hoping they’ll call again, because they also have location in their favor—a very livable area for one like me.
On the (mildly) down side, I didn’t get the show-horse job that I’ve always been pretty sure I wasn’t going to get. (Again, in five to ten years I suspect I’ll be a natural choice for these.) What I can glean from the timing is that I was fairly low on their list, as I never got called for an interview, but I was still interesting enough that they kept me on the list until they were sure they had their librarian. That’s not bad, for me and a show-horse job.
I’m still up for a work-horse job at the same institution as far as I know, but again, I don’t fancy my chances. I don’t fancy them enough that I’m not going to bother nicknaming the place.
The OCLC job I was up for has been taken down, so I assume I am now officially out of the running. There’s nothing else up at present that’s interesting. I should goose my HR contact there to see who’ll be at ACRL, though.
One more résumé out last week; a couple more jobs in my to-be-applied-for queue at del.icio.us. I’m still being moderately picky about what I apply for, but if I hit graduation without another nibble or two, I shall have to stop being picky.
While I was working on the annotated bibliography last week, I walked past a couple of books on digital-library implementation, and snagged them to read. I need to quit running myself down; I know more about this stuff than I think I do, and what I don’t know appears to be less arcane than I thought.