Year: 2006

Tips For People *Not* Going On Co-op

The co-op placements were announced yesterday and it sounds like a lot of  people got their first picks so that's awesome!  A big Classmate of the Day to

Course Evaluations (Except No)

So I went and got really drunk and did some social drinking (that sounds better in case my mom reads this!) with a bunch of first termers after

You Know You're A Library Nerd When…

…the course outline for “The Public Library In The Community” (see below) gets you overly excited! Anybody know anything about this prof?  E-mail me off-blog with any thoughts

An Oppressed Librarian Minority

Someone on the 501 mailing list forwarded this Unshelved comic strip to me…

95 Theses of Geek Activism

This is all over the web today – I saw it on Boing Boing this morning and Metafilter tonight (which was cited as being found on Digg.) Here’s

A Day Without Thoughts of Library School (While Hanging With Library Students Discussing Library Topics)

I don't know if I've had a day in the last six-plus months where library school didn't occupy my mind at least partly – either becasue I was

A Failed Experiment? 2.0

Overnight, one other person voted for deletion of the Spirit of Librarianship article I put on Wikipedia as well.  So now it's four votes to delete, none to

A Failed Experiment?

Other than a couple minor edits, I've never done anything major on Wikipedia, even though I think it's an amazing resource (“a streamlined Google” is how I like

Midnight Pastimes

Instant MessagingI am back on instant messaging.  After using IM quite a bit in the heyday of ICQ, I got away from it for a variety of reasons

If there are 23 people in a room, what are the odds of two sharing a birthday?

This is a bit retroactive but yesterday, I e-mailed Marco D'Andrea, a first term student to thank him for an invite to his party on July 18 and

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I started this blog in 2006 when I was doing my Master of Library Science degree at the University of Western Ontario.

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