Week 9, Assignment 3

Summarize your thoughts about this program in a blog post. What have you learned that was helpful?

I've enjoyed the Be More Bookish training overall. When the training began, I was in the middle of LATI, and as soon as that was over it was time for Summer Reading Club. As a result, I am pretty much down to the wire in completing my assignments. (I have one day left before the deadline! Woohoo!) I am glad that we were given a longer block of time to complete the assignments, because I wanted to be able to take the time needed to complete the assignments thoughtfully and get the maximum benefit from this experience.

Given that all of us have plenty of other work to do, I think one or two assignments per week (as in one or two actual tasks--1. read this article and 2. write a book talk for book xyz) would have been more manageable to keep up with instead of some of the weeks in which we had four or five separate tasks to complete. Most of the assignments made sense, but the week 6 assignments in particular were vague, and week 6/assignment 3 in particular was really asssignments 3, 4, and 5. Also, for week 6/assignment 2, it would have been a lot more helpful to have the content of the Prezi on an 11x17 piece of paper; if each branch could have received one or two copies I think that would have been helpful. That way, those of us who like to get the big picture could see all of the content at once instead of having to move around the page.

Another thought I've had here and there along the way is that I wish I could have had more interaction with other librarians' blogs. I liked the parts of some assignments that asked us to look at another staff member's blog and would have liked to have spent more time reading through more of them.

Finally, thank you to the folks who made this happen. It's been a good learning experience and I appreciate the time you have taken and the work you've put into creating this training program.