Category: LibrarySchool

Five Things You Can't Say About Libraries, Librarians, and Library School

As with any sector, there are a lot of unchallenged statements, pieces of accepted wisdom and politically incorrect sentiments in the library world that seem to be lurking

Five Minute FIMS Survival Guide

Before I started the program, I talked to three different alumni for their tips and suggestions.  Although these may sound very obvious, here's their suggestions which I've implemented

Full Circle: Yet Another Library Student's Blog

I swear to god that I should just change the name of this blog to “Full Circle” and be done with it.  I'm seeing echoes everywhere…I went over

Spirit of Librarianship Fall 2006 – Call For Nominations

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

My Course Picks – Winter 2007

(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

Hypothetical Reality

“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

Top 10 Memories of My Year At FIMS – My Book Zine Submission

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! 

Pamphlet For New Students

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

"You Look Beat Down" (and a stroll down memory lane)

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

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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,

About Head Tale

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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