Category: LibrarySchool

What I Wish "They" Had Told Me When I Started Out In Librarianship

Former CLA President, Wendy Newman, who is teaching “Advocacy and Libraries” this semester has kindly agreed to let me reprint this list.  The full version is a speech

Let's All Go To The Grad Club

I'll be at the Grad Club tomorrow afternoon around 4pm to celebrate the impending birth of my child (okay, it's nine months away but any excuse to go

Are You A FIS Blogger?

Are you a blogger? Do you have things to say about the profession (archives, museums, lis, etc . . . )? We're looking to compile a directory of

All Kinds of Thoughts & Things – None of Which Are My Homework

Scholarly Journal Submission UpdateJust finished submitting the revised version of “Useless as Tits on a Bull: User Fees in Alberta Public Libraries” to Partnership: The Canadian Journal of

GG Award Winner, Art Slade, Coming To FIMS – All Details Finalized!

  Below is an e-mail I just sent out to the department’s mailing list. I really *really* want a good crowd out for this event so I have

Distance Courses: The Good, The Not-So-Good and the Miscellaneous

I'm taking “Advocacy and Library Issues” with former CLA President, Wendy Newman, as a distance course this term.  This is my first ever distance course (I took French

An Unofficial Guide to UWO FIMS Library School

I’ve had a couple chances to plug my blog in front of the new semester of students in the last couple weeks (and have had a few compliments

If Lukas Wins, We All Win (Spoiler Alert)

So I got hooked on the RockStar: Supernova TV show and tonight watched the finale where Toronto's Lukas Rossi became the second Canadian in a row to win

The Autumn of My Disconnect

With apologies to Billy Shakes for the paraphrase, I think this will be my “semester of disconnect” at FIMS.  I've got two classes at Somerville House up in

"Dont' Worry – I'm At The Library"

In addition to giving out free water, a free keychain with a combination compass, pen light and whistle, free candy necklaces and free frisbees, Weldon Library had a

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