Is it a bad thing when multiple people tell you that you look beat down (or a variation of this – ie. “You look really tired”) within a one week period? I'd heard about the way this program wears you down, especially if you go straight through in three semesters, but was going pretty strong […]
Saw this on Etc., the blog of the instructor for LIS765 so thought I'd give it a shot: One book that changed your life? I'd say “Diary of Anne Frank” when I was pretty young, probably around the age that Anne is in the book. After that, I went through a phase where I felt […]
Not very often but sometimes, I really don't like libraries.I was over at the University today for a group meeting and afterwards, went to the Business Library because the catalogue showed that they (as well as our main library Weldon, the Taylor library and a few others in the system had a copy of a […]
Looking at my stats and realising how many people come here via links from other sites makes me realise that I've been a bit remiss about providing permanent, recirporcal links to the blogs that bring people here or just that I check on a regular basis. Consider that rectified. Somewhere over there<—–…is now a list […]
Sorry for the late notice but tonight at 9:30pm, classmate Linda Bussiere will be playing at the Grad Club with her band, Buttonfly. There's no cover and it's a great chance to see an excellent local band, have a visit with fellow MLIS Students and perhaps quaff a beverage or three. Hope to see many […]
With apologies to Eminem, one of my favourite things, both at school or in the workplace, is when I lose myself in a project and all of a sudden, two or four or eight hours have passed. Last time I looked at the clock, it was 3am and I was thinking that I should probably […]
This Magazine’s current issue has a cover story on “40 Ideas We Need Know” which has many prominent thinkers contributing their thoughts on “a big idea whose time has come.” Copyright reform, the Hipster PDA (which I use myself – who knew I was hip?) and “a safe place to pee” is just a small […]
If you're an OLA member, you might have received a copy of the 2007 SuperConference program in the mail today. If not, FIMS alum, Jennifer Cyr (aka Canuck Librarian) has a link to the conference program on her blog as well as some thoughts (Jen's on the conference planning committee.)I was able to attend for […]
Having done a lot of web site design over the years, I thought of doing a list like this in first semester right before our 505 web site assignment was due. I never got around to it. But now, having spent quite a bit of time in the last few weeks helping fellow students who […]
Our genealogy class got out early today so that people could either work on assignments, do research or come down to LPL to vist the “London Room”, the library's local history room. I'd seen the room briefly during our LPL tour in Public Libraries class but had a couple hours to kill before I had […]
