After an intense (?)
build-up, the Spirit of Librarianship Award goes to… (drum
roll)…me. Without being too egotistical, I'm not too
surprised. I heard I got more nominations than some people got
votes, I was the only one from first term nominated (and only the
second first-termer to win it) so I got lots of votes from classmates
while other nominees had to split votes between their cohorts.
Plus a little bird told me the other day that I should definitely
come to the “Destressor” so I had a pretty good idea how it might go
down. But until they announced my name (as I sat with a mouthful
of samosa) I didn't know for sure of course.
I have so many thoughts on this, let's see if I can get to them all…
– my personal compromise with my whole ambivalence about the award was
that I asked the committee if I could accept on “Behalf of the Class of
January 2006”. (They said it wouldn't fit on the plaque.)
– I also wanted to accept it on behalf of the other nominees which I
think I sort of managed to say in the rambling speech I gave. On
one hand, it's just a silly award. On the other hand, it's pretty
important thing and it's too bad there have to be winners and er, not
winners for something like this.
– I also tried to say that I thought the award was sort of a way of
identifiying people who thought being a librarian was more than getting
a piece of paper, more than getting a good paying job. (I was
talking to someone after I heard I was going to be nominated and joked
that this award was for “The Most Naive Librarian” – someone who
believed in libraries on a very “kumbaya” level.)
– Quinn's gone forth and organized a movie night featuring *The
Aristocrats* for Wednesday night at 5:30pm and I think everyone reading
this should attend if they can – it's a great film. I managed to
give a little preview of the joke and a plug for the movie night during
my speech.
– this has nothing to do with the Award but I managed to fill out two
extra anonymous entries for the Book Zine near the end of the Destressor but I think it will be easy
to recognize mine. They're the ones with beer spilled on them.
It's 2am and I've just woken up for a power nap after drinking an
outrageous amount of beer at the Destressor. I've got to polish
my 501 Annotated Bibliography now but when I get a chance, I think I'll
try to type up a “what I would've said if I'd put a little more thought
into it” Oscar-winning acceptance speech.
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