Day 1 - General Introduction and Meetings.

Day 1 - General Introduction and Meetings.

Today was the first day of the INL 370 Work Experience and Learning Program. It was mainly used for introductory purposes and explaining what the University's library actually does and some of the projects that they are currently working on. 

The day started off with the director of the Library, Mr Robert Maropa, explaining to us what the library is working towards and that their mission is to become a lean and agile, 21st century library. After his presentation we sat through a number of other presentations given by different team leaders and drivers from different departments of the library. They explained what they were currently working on and why their department was important to the main goal of the Library. We also sat through a presentation given by one of the members of the library's marketing team. She explained to us the importance of marketing for a library. The library requires a larger budget than their current one in-order too reach their future goals. To achieve this, they need a good marketing campaign that will raise the needed funds or attract the attention of possible stakeholders and investors.

Lastly we were briefed on what we will be doing and learning for the next two weeks and tasked with creating a blog. We will be using the blog to keep track and log our day to day program and duties. In the end the day turned out to be very informative and gave me a new perspective on the University's library.