One week to go

Count down to sabbatical is now under a week. Still waiting for the materials to be transferred from the annex to Life Sciences. Of course just as I think I can start concentrating on the project 3 or 4 other things pop up. So here is the list of things that I will be working on concurrently with the sabbatical project:
Reviewing an article for the Journal of Agriculture and Food Information
Reviewing a report for the Ceres project/ Center for Research Libraries
Updating my dossier
Working on the STS Oberly Award task force report
Completing the mandatory Reporting Child Abuse Training
Updating Collection Development policy statements
USAIN Preservation and Digital Libraries Committee conference presentation
Reviewing AgNIC Governance and By-laws document, Guidelines document, serve on the nominations committee and serve as the convener of the Service awards committee
This should be fun ...

one month to go

It is now August which means I have one month until the sabbatical officially begins. Here is some more background information on the project. The 2000+ items did not come with an inventory but someone (thanks Helen) was able to find the original bibliography. The problem is that it was done with some really old technology which makes it very difficult to use. So I will be spending time recreating the bibliography using Zotero. This way the records can be tagged and links can be added if full text is available.
If you want to see what this looks like so far go to:
http://icik.psu.edu/psul/icik/cikard.html

I realize this blog is visually boring and I will try and add some pictures later on.