Ups and downs
Sometimes things just don’t work. Hazard of being in this business. But sometimes things that shouldn’t work do.
I tied a how-to-deposit tutorial to the local technology-training effort, since that is well-publicized and I don’t turn down free publicity. Unfortunately, it seems that the audience for tech training is not my audience, because my first tute this morning turned up precisely zero faculty. (Though I did have a nice chat with a new hire in special collections.) Eh, well, it happens—and at least I have the materials ready for other tutorials.
I also turned up for the new-faculty orientation this afternoon, hoping to hook a fish or two. I did not expect to be able to hand the repository’s brag sheet to the Vice-President for Research and Economic Development—but I’m not at all sorry for the opportunity!
Another tutorial scheduled for Friday. We’ll see how it goes.