The two people on student council who would normally run the SoL Award process were both nominated (along with Council chair) so I ended up volunteering to take it over since it was guaranteed I wouldn't be nominated (well, I could be nominated I guess but I wouldn't have been able to accept having won […]
(I wonder if that post heading got a few people doing double takes? ) The course selection meeting was this afternoon and even though I'm finished the program in a couple weeks, I thought about going just to hear what the profs said and hang out with some of the students. Then I realised this […]
“Hypothetical reality” is a term I've come up with to describe a lot of the assignments we're asked to do at library school. Unlike an undergrad English program (for example) where you're given an assignment, you do the research and then write a paper in a pretty straight forward manner, something entirely different often happens […]
Each semester, some students put together the “Book Zine” which is a collection of Top Ten book lists and other randomness. If you haven't submitted yet, you should! It's a great little memento of each semester that also will provide lots of great book suggestions. The deadline has just been extended. Here's the scoop:—Our zine […]
Approximately a year to the day from when I got my acceptance letter to the MLIS program last year, it's another circle closing as I was recently asked to finish off a brochure for incoming students that one of my fellow student council members didn't have time to complete. This brochure will go out with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
