Professorial Lecture: Welcome

[Professorial Lecture series post one]

Good afternoon. Thank you Pam Bradigan for the wonderful introduction.

Welcome (flickr.com/photos/renaissancechambara/)

To start, I would like to acknowledge all those that have supported me over the years including my wife Diann, my parents Henry and Patricia, my sister Christy, and brother Corey.

I would also like to acknowledge all the folks that I have worked with at the Health Sciences Libraries over the years, many who in attendance today and a few that are not, including Susan Kroll who provided me a sandbox to experiment and Barbara VanBrimmer, who early in my OSU career encouraged me to push the envelope … hard. I would also like to express my appreciation to all my colleagues from University Libraries and campus that are in attendance today. Lastly, I would like to acknowledge all of my friends and professional colleagues that have been supportive over the years. This list is too long and you know who you are.

It is both an honor and a privilege to be presenting my professorial lecture to those in attendance today.  As the title of my lecture would lead one to believe, I will be discussing the various dilemmas that I have faced as a scholar. The first of which was the fact that I wanted to be able to extend my lecture to friends and colleagues that were unable to attend.

A year ago when I starting thinking about the topic of my lecture everything was being flipped; the classroom, conferences. Up until December I considered flipping this lecture and posting a multimedia presentation in advance and then have a discussion today. I decided that I would be remiss if I skipped the opportunity to talk to you here today.

So, instead, to extend this lecture I tapped into my bag of tools I’ve learned over the years and selected a few to use, as work and life priorities and time allowed.

My lecture is being video recorded and will be posted to our institutional repository. I will also work to make a copy available on my YouTube channel, where you can also learn to install a Nest thermostat. I have broken my lecture down into this series of blog posts on the new Ohio State u.osu.edu service. These posts have been set to auto post around the same that I am discussing them live. Links to the will be sent out via Twitter in real time and an index posted to Facebook, at the end of the lecture. Lastly, a modified and copyright compliant, creative commons version of my slides will be posted to my SlideShare site.

[Next: Being Professorial]

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