It's been a long year and no wonder the lag with my posts. So much change personally and professionally. Still, I remain positive that there is a plan and I am not actively seeking control. Everything happens in the right time.

I am now the Gifts-in-Kind Librarian at the Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame. This was a small portion of my prior duties and responsibilties. In the next three months I will be refocusing my efforts and visiting projects and activities that were backburnered due to competing priorities and insufficient resources, including my own human resources.

I met today with my staff member and we have begun planning on two major intitiatives:

1. Review, revision and restatement of the Gifts-in-Kind acceptance policy and procedures
2. Planning and implementation of an open source solution for tracking information about Gifts-in-Kind and their donors

Both initiatives are important for a teaching, research and learning institution such as ours. I hope to complete an environmental scan by mid-July and have the first pass at describing data we need in the software ready to go.

If you have any thoughts on these directions, I invite you to post here in the blogsite or privately to me.