The Universe of Medical Librarianship

Okay, gotta do my early morning routine…clear out email, check voice mail, look at RSS feeds. What’s this? I received an email that someone has posted on my blog. Wow, exciting! Someone actually looked at it. The comment was congratulating me on becoming an Official MLA Conference Blogger. Uh, okay. That’s wonderful! Thank you, it’s just I thought I would hear it from someone or somewhere else. Well, I guess that’s how were doing things now-a-days, all web 2.0 like. Well, I’m feeling pretty excited, but now I’m wondering, “is this a joke?” I guess I’ll learn more about my blogging duties later. I’m sure the MLA officials will send some instructions or at least tell me what to do when I get there. So, moving on, I’m looking at my RSS feeds, and one of those I subscribe to is the MLA 08′ Blog. Well what do you know? There it is, I’m official. My name is listed on the blog. Cool, now it has become a more elaborate prank! Moving on to my once a week cleaning up my Junk-Mail folder. Having learned from previous experience, I always look through my SPAM folder, just in case something important is there. Sure enough, something important had been incorrectly flagged as SPAM through our wonderful, censored, BIG-BROTHER system. There inside my Junk Mail was my official congratulation on being selected as an Official MLA Conference Blogger. Yeah! So, it wasn’t a joke after all. I have MLA’s Web 2.0 101: Introduction to Second Generation Web Tools course to thank or blame for sparking my interest in blogging and web 2.0. I am new to blogging as well as librarianship, so this will be an interesting experience as a first-time attendee of the conference. Can you say, “NEWBIE?” I will be attending the breakfast for first-timers, so I look forward to meeting all of you that are just like me, deer in headlights. I am looking forward to the conference, to learning, meeting new people, Chicago’s good food, and just having fun absorbing the whole experience. Everyone have a safe trip there, and remember, always check you Junk Mail.