Teaching!

I haven't posted in a while due to a rather hectic life schedule which included doing 108 sun salutations for the fall equinox, a trip to New York City, a friend visiting for two weeks, and lots of dessert making. However, the other week I taught a few classes for the first time in over a year.

I miss teaching a lot. In fact, in addition to being a librarian I would like to be a yoga teacher in a few years (perhaps when I can get into headstand away from the wall). I had a lot of opportunities to teach when I was in grad school and I took them up as often as possible, but since becoming an actual librarian I haven't gotten a chance to teach. Thankfully, my coworker is used to co-teaching and asked me to help her out on three classes this semester. I was more than happy to help, especially considering I am looking to move into public services.

The students in the first class I taught were, interestingly enough, working on topics related to veganism and video gaming/learning. They should be so lucky that I got assigned to them! I was able to talk about web resources and the difference between looking at random pages they got from Google and the UN IPCC report on Climate Change. I also got to point out some tricks about subject searching our catalog, which very few non-catalogers realize. The other classes got my database tips and tricks, but didn't get to have someone with so much first hand knowledge of the subjects which made the first class so great.