Brandy Danner is a librarian specializing in young adult services.
Good Times
It’s been a really good couple of days.
Last night’s program went fabulously, and I got some extra feedback today telling me it went well. And the presenter said he’d love to come back in the fall to do it again. (For free!) My boss was impressed at the turnout, and decided it’s because I sent flyers hither and yon.
The booklists I created a couple of weeks ago are getting some attention. My boss showed them to her boss, who sent me a very nice email saying how great they were and, by extension, how great I am. The marketing person who turned my booklists into pretty handouts emailed me (and copied my boss, her boss, the head of marketing, and the head of HR) this morning to tell me that they’d also posted them on the web, cross-listing them from the Booklovers’ Corner, Book Resources, and Teen Pages.
Said marketing person has also solicited some input on what would make the neglected, content-light Teen Pages more interesting, more useful, and gave me the list of ideas that have come up in marketing meetings. She said lots of the ideas (blogging, live summer reading chats) were shot down for lack of interest, but they’re some of the same ideas I’d asked about a few months ago—and was told the marketing department would never go for! So I might be taking on a couple of extra content-creation tasks, and I think I may have been drafted onto the Web Betterment Task Force. (No, that is NOT an official title.)
And when I checked my mailbox today, I found a box of my very own business cards.
It’s been a happy day.
