Am I going round in circles, stepping back five years, reinventing the wheel, or just making the best use of my experience? I'm not entirely sure but I'm definitely getting the feeling that I've been here before. Deja vu writ large.

There was a meeting this morning of a group looking at publicity. I had thought that I'd been sucked into the vortex of participating but somehow I managed to escape. I was never a part of plugging the library at TheOldPlace and I'm not entirely sure my skills lie in marketing - for all that I'll dress up as a pirate if required, so it's probably a lucky escape. But I think they were all fired up by a wanna be comic librarian who visited over the summer. [1]

Following the meeting I get a phone call telling me that after the disappointing response to offering the tours of the new extension (not unpredictable), they've decided that maybe they do want a virtual tour and an mp3 tour. For those who don't know, these were two projects I undertook at TheOldPlace and rather enjoyed doing.[2] Enquiring early on in my time here about why such things didn't exist, I was told they didn't really want to go down this route and there were those who hadn't particularly like the approach I'd taken in my previous job (they'd looked).

So now they've (I appreciate the 'theys' in this description may not be the same people) changed their minds. And guess who's being volunteered to do both jobs?!

Well, I did warn them it's not going to look very different from what I did before in terms of style - obviously the content will be different. I don't have a vast amount of technical ability or design skills. But apparently that's fine.

So that's my summer taken care of.

Perhaps I could them an alternative library while I'm at it.

[1] See entry for October 5th
http://doosouth.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html

[2] Great to actually finish something for once and be able to point to a single complete project and be able to say "I did that".