1. My contract ends on June 30, 2006
2. Reasons for 01/19/06:
Conversation with Jose Mallea
I decided to be frank. He asked me what I was doing after I leave this position. I said I’m looking for a job, I don’t know, it’s no tragedy, the Ctr didn’t want me around. - Oh, reallY? - that’s right, I was the library person - maybe they weren’t consulted, they had another person - no, there was no other person, furthermore, it seemed to be a gender thing with Joseba Z - Oh, but Basque men are quite egalitarian, you know - Well, no, not entirely - yes they are - well, no they’re not—woman in the U.S. haven’t had the vote for all that long, just since 1919 [implication is that in Spain they had something better] ** enough of that conversation.
3. conversation with G. Willis:
Here’s a list of tasks that you can work on. They are Mary’s responsibility but she won’t do them. —
OK, let’s work on posters, stopwords and Nevada control vocabulary.
4. conversation with D. Curtis:
Stopwords and control vocabulary are in Mary’s job description. Will you work with her on these projects?—I don’t really want to, but if her supervisor tells her to contact me, and she does it, then we can talk about it.
5. 2 hours later, here’s the email I get from Mary:

I wish I’d known about this before the meeting this afternoon! Are you free tomorrow to talk about this?
—-Original Message-—
From: Rick Anderson
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:46 PM
To: Mary Taylor
Subject: Authority work

Donnie came by my office today and mentioned that Kathryn is talking about spending part of her remaining time here working on an authority system and stopwords list for CONTENTdm. Donnie and I talked about it and both agreed that this sounds more like something for you to do (as per item 3 below), but that Kathryn’s expertise as a cataloger would probably come in handy. Would you get in touch with her (Kathryn) and talk to her about collaborating on that project during the next six months, before she departs? I don’t know how much background you have in authority work already, but if it’s less than Kathryn’s then this will be a valuable opportunity to pick her brain while she’s still here.

Make sense? Let me know if you have questions or concerns. (You could add this to your PE document, too!)

Thanks,
Rick