Monthly Archives April 2006

How I Know My Parents Love Me

They bring me six bags of nacho chips that you can't get in Ontario and more importantly, eight litres of beer that's made by the best damn brewpub in Canada, Regina's Bushwakkers!   

10 Tips For New Library Students at UWO's Library School

Now that I'm a cagey veteran library student with a whole semester under my belt (well, two days from now), I thought I would pass along some of the wisdom (as opposed to data, information or knowledge) that I've picked up in the last fourteen weeks. Ten Tips For New Library Students in UWO's FIMS […]

The Naive Librarian Award Goes To…

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 […]

Sometimes I Post Just To Say I've Posted That Day

[2007-03-20 – this page continues to be one of the most hit pages on my site for reasons I cannot figure – I assume it is the mention of either Darth Vader or Eminem.  But those terms have millions of other sites that should be ahead of mine in your searches.  So if you have […]

One Week and Two Assignments Left

I'm doing an annotated bibliography on the corporatization of public libraries for 501 (sort of a recurring theme with my work here so far) and then I have to do a Request for Proposals for 505.  Then I'm done my first semester of library school.  How crazy is that?  Next week is going to be […]

Quote of the Day (if the day was Tuesday)

There were a bunch of what appeared to be commonly mis-spelled words written on the board when we went to 501 on Tuesday night.  Our professor glanced at them, sees one that's “regorgitate” and quips “Isn't that what happens when you re-elect George Bush?”

The Bionic Librarian

Some days I feel like the Bionic Librarian.  I keep my digital camera in my left jacket pocket (Quinn called me a shutterbug today – I think I've taken 300 photos in the short time I've had the camera and I'm always pulling it out at any gathering we have), I have a jump drive […]

How To Be The Best Professor, Heck, The Best Teacher Ever

My Grade Two teacher is my favourite teacher of all-time.  Her buying the class doughnuts on a monthly basis has a lot to do with it.  But I think we've got a new champ.  Proof?  – give a kick-ass introductory class and an even better wrap-up class that draws tears from many in the class […]

Amazing Numbers (Clocks, Marks, Fines)

Got this from Jillian “Cenobyte” Bell.  Think about this … On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That won't ever happen again. Thank you…You may now return to your (normal?) life. She wrote that she thought I was […]

Long Day…

Had a long day today – discussed an assignment with my 503 instructor (“discussed” might not be the best word to use but I'm trying to be polite), met with the Acting Associate Dean to discuss an upcoming speaker in our speaker series and also to get approval to do an Individual Study project as […]