Graduate Library Liaison Grant

Well, this is some good news! Notre Dame's ISLA program just awarded me a Graduate Library Liaison Grant! I'm more interested in the position itself--in the subject of Catholic Studies--than the actual grant. Here's some of the experience I'll be gaining (swiped from the award letter):

1. Collecting lists of resources that graduate students and faculty would like the subject librarian to acquire.
2. Researching newly available electronic and print resources, and considering their overlap with existing library resources.
3. Helping the subject librarian to create FAQ lists about acquisitions and resources for the department.
4. Helping redefine databases so that the descriptions are user-oriented.
5. Creating lists of underused library resources and making them available to the department or to specialized areas within the department.
6. Communicating with established library committees.
7. Keeping the departmental graduate student body aware of the full extent of our ever-expanding library resources (for research and for teaching).

In other words, I'll be coordinating people and resources, learning more about CS resources, and working with everything/one hands-on--a chance to really get "down and dirty" in the field. And the position is interdisciplinary: since Notre Dame doesn't actually have a Catholic Studies program, I'll be working with folks in a variety of different fields whose interests intersect CS.

This is totally awesome. I can't wait.