I've decluttered my personal page of a thread I didn't get a lot of chance to enjoy, too many poachers trying to change the subject. Susan Boyle will have to fend for herself.

Meeting at work today in which a new mucky-muck from the administration office basically has the intention of taking over everything I do for the institution. I wasn't able to get there for the first 30 minutes of this career affecting meeting--the heavens intervened and poured so much rain and lightning at school bus time that I couldn't leave my son in the weather so I took him to school. By the time I got to the meeting they had covered most of my job. I still have a job, but I will have to make it clear to these folks that I plan to continue doing it, I'm not handing my editing, design, and printing press oversight over to their new editors. It has been my experience that they don't proof-read closely, and they won't recognize the errors they've built in if they do as they ahve suggested and take everything and produce the finished product with no more department input. I will not go for that, or I'll spend all of my time correcting their errors. I've learned this job from the ground up and I suspect a lot of these folks are short-timers--they're here in the newest fad of "branding" going on. They're in place so the departments that don't have someone like me will have more uniform and professionally prepared print and web documents. Theses folks don't have the library insider knowledge so unless the university is defaulting to lite everything, little meaningful content in the printed word, they need to just back off and let me do my job.

Hmmmph.

Off of my soap box.

SRS