A New Year's Resolution

I always make the same new year's resolution: fitter, happier... you know the checklist. Anyhow, this year I am going to strive for a slighter more measurable resolution of:

1. Posting to my blog at least once a week
2. Organizing my del.icio.us tags in a more meaningful fashion
3. Adding notes to all of my del.icio.us sites that i forgot to notate way back when I was just learning how to use this fantastic information management tool
4. Developing my librarything page as this is by far the most interesting social networking site that exists (I have added only two books!! shame one me!)

In a sense this become my fitter-happier song & dance, but in a more notable and meaningful pursuit of eating my broccoli.

A Winter Leave

So begins another month of research leave. This time, however, I will be working from my new home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. I will miss Park Slope and my old apartment dearly, but I am excited to begin a new journey. While on my research leave, I plan to perform an extensive literature review of Web 2.0 and Information Literacy and write/submit a draft that summarizes my teaching experience and use of 2.0 technologies in the classroom. I presented a poster at ACRL's NYC conference this November and folks seemed pretty interested in my experiences as a librarian teaching a course in public health that focused on traditional and 21st century methods of research. Interestingly, this morning I received an email from a colleague out in New Mexico who would like to mentor me in the research/writing process of my paper. We've never met before, but have exchanged emails discussing Information Literacy in Public Health. I am enormously excited to work with him as he's a very, very well-known researcher in the field and his expertise will be most welcomed.

Here's to a healthy and productive 2008!!