John Dupuis

Looks like it will be an awesome book. - Joe Kraus

Did you see these two videos of Michael Jensen? http://psupress.blogspot.com/2009... They support a bunch of your text. - Joe Kraus

Thanks, Joe. I haven't seen the videos yet but will take a look at them soon. - John Dupuis

Yes, Bill, it will be a challenge to squeeze it all in! - John Dupuis

Jensen has a transcript of those vids at http://www.nap.edu/staff... . The talk reads to me as INCENDIARY. I emailed him to ask how it was received, and he says it went over pretty well, though! - D0r0th34

I've been thinking about the book, John, and the question I'm left with is this: are you really talking about *your* job, or academic librarianship writ large? I sort of see some of both, since you don't talk much about (frex) cataloguing, but you do include such a broad array of other areas that any one person would need 48 hours in a workday to do it all. - D0r0th34

Dorothea, both. I already do a huge variety of things. I'm an administrator, I do reference, collections, instruction, some research support stuff, a bunch of committees including ones about web design. Since I'm a branch head, I think a lot about our physical space and what it means to students. Related to that, I try and advocate to administrators and faculty about the value of the library to their students because that's largely invisible to them. - John Dupuis

So, yes, it's about my job. It's also about a range of things I might find myself doing in the future or that someone in a job similar to mine might find themselves doing. But, it's a good point, I'll have to find a way to be more explicit that it's about a range of possibilites not that everyone will be doing everything. - John Dupuis

Re: the Jensen vids, I have toyed with the idea of talking about environmental sustainability issues and how that could affect, for example, the affordability of the various gadgets we assume everyone will have in the future and the collection decisions we make. But, as Bill suggests, that's probably a whole different book by itself. - John Dupuis

It prolly is a whole different book, but that doesn't mean you can't use that perspective to inform the other things you're writing. I'm sort of envious of the breadth and varied nature of your work... there are days I think I need to be working with a smaller staff, honestly. - D0r0th34