Third day of job

Now in note form.

Need to check my email a lot apparently even though there are long periods of time when I don’t get anything. Had to fill out a faculty form but I’m not a teacher! Nor have I gone to professional development seminars or joined any organizations yet. I just finished school. Gotta join SLA. Did a lot of pricing on Amazon and through Google Books. Amazon is so much cheaper and the marketplace is a bargain sometimes. Other times people sell stuff at weird prices. Who’d pay 285 for something that goes for 135 new? Examined EBSCO and ebrary. Hunted down articles on faculty-library collaboration and information literacy. Wrote mission statement, vision, core values, blah, blah, blah. They’re mainly bs but I suppose they help with identity and a sense of legitimacy. I mean, most of these things say that the library is dedicated to furthering educational goals and providing users with resources pertinent to their interests, that their core values are honesty and excellence and accuracy, which is great I guess as who wants a lying, misinformed, mediocre librarian? But eh. Got a few recommendations in from staff. Very helpful. The Physician’s Desk Reference is an obvious choice but I wouldn’t think of it on my own. Not my area of expertise. Got introduced to a class. Everyone seems pretty excited about having a library. I’m starting to make lists of resources, just have to get them approved and bought. Need to find out how the purchasing will be done. DCT 2011 is available next Wednesday. Want it now. It's an electronic resource for crying out loud. You don't need to wait for the printers. Populi's version of an ILS is handy as the school already uses the company and I think it can work out quite well only you can't delete items out of the library at the moment which seems like a serious over-site. Nor can you change a copy's status between available and unavailable. They say they're working on it. I sincerely hope so.

Going to finish Six Geese A-Slaying soon. It's cute but it doesn't have as much pep as the previous books in the series.

Resident Evil 4 is so much fun. The plot is fairly standard take over, maybe not the world, but at least Spain. Maybe the world, I don't know. Infected people mindlessly doing their master's bidding in his attempt to right some long ago wrong or possibly that's just an excuse and he really likes guys in robes. Leon is the most pleasant character I've had to follow around since the Prince in Prince of Persia 3. Considering that there seems to be an entire team in Japan that does nothing but program breast physics on female characters it's a refreshing change of pace to be playing a good-looking male protagonist in tight pants. Adds to the game value, you know?

Have gone through several bosses, onet of which was a large bearded man with a fetish for strangling Leon. He eventually turned into a giant bug which I then set on fire. There was a giant cleverly name El Gigante that I shot repeatedly in the face and a gigantic fish that I took out with a harpoon. Ashley is your escort for most of the game and she's one of the least annoying I've seen. When you swing your gun towards her she ducks. What a radical concept.