What's Next?

So now that I'm done with school what shall I do with my time?

On a professional level I have several projects that I am working on - I am working on creating three screencasts.

One will be titled A Skill Building Tour of the Library - this screencast will be designed to introduce the library by teaching information literacy skills pertinent to each area of the library. For instance,Reference will include:
Evaluation Skills - how to tell if resources are appropriate, Search Skills - gathering citations and materials, and Citation skills will introduce the new bibliography builder in Word 2007.

The next two screencasts will be for younger patrons & those that teach them. On our campus there are camps offered for children in the summer. I will create screencasts which teach the counselors how to utilize our resources for teaching and one that is geared to middle school and high school kids so that they can understand how to use our resources, too.

On a personal level, I will finally have time to begin some family projects which I have been planning for a long time. The first will involve my father, his letters and sermons from Viet Nam. I think it would be very interesting to have the Viet Nam story told from a Chaplain's perspective. The next will involve my mother and all of her family stories. I would love to put them in manuscript form. One of her friends, a prominent Southern Literature expert, has agreed to write a Foreword, and another of her friends, a prominent linguist, has agreed to edit it. Once this is all done we will present it to my mother so that she may agree to send it to a university press.