Here’s a quite likely future scenario: you’re in a new position, learning the ropes, working to understand your new setting, clientele, collection, role, and of course, your new colleagues. You want to demonstrate that your shiny new degree will bring value to the organization, and that you know a lot of useful things, though you also want to be cautious in how you do this. In particular, in this new position, you’re the newby in a group of staff all of whom have been at this place for at least 20 years.
They’re a friendly bunch, and you get along well, and you want to keep it that way. But they want to know, and you want to show, what you can add—and crucially, do it without pissing anybody off. You hit on the idea of sharing some of your more recent experience in a way that might help them learn something new and fit it in to their existing practice and knowledge.
So, for your first task, you are to develop and record a brief tutorial session for experienced librarians. You may discuss any technology, source, tool, or technique you like, that might not be familiar to a long-time librarian (please specify the type and size of library), using some recorded synchronous medium (screencasting, podcasting, voice-over-Powerpoint presentation, etc), but it must be web-accessible. You may work individually or in pairs on this task, and your submission may take up no more than 5 minutes, though it may be in any format you like. Your work will be evaluated on the effectiveness of the presentation, demonstrated understanding of the subject matter, appropriateness and value for the audience, and the overall creativity and quality of your submission.
Your submission is due at 5:30pm on January 20. Please use this Catalyst dropbox for your submissions.