Florence Hwang, a recent grad from the program, attended a federal libraries career networking event in Ottawa and reports back with these tips on her blog (reprinted with permission):* Instead of listing relevant courses you have taken in your resume, provide examples of projects you did in school.* Experience counts. Put down your volunteer experience […]
Got an e-mail from the department today (Sunday? Wow, they work hard over there!) saying that a spot had opened up in a class I initially didn't get into. So I'm going to drop one of my alternate classes and take this one and my final schedule will be this:Monday PM – “Public Library in […]
At the end of my first semester, I posted “10 Tips For New Library School Students“. On Tuesday, I'll begin my third (and final) semester of library school. I honestly can't believe how fast the time has gone. In honour of that mini-milestone, here's another similar list: TEN THINGS I'VE LEARNED IN LIBRARY SCHOOL (SO […]
Got a chance to plug my blog after giving a brief (?) talk about the role of the Student Council's Academic Rep during the orientation session for the new students today so I thought I'd write a “Welcome” post in case there were a few new visitors stopping by to check it out. For some […]
I'm posting this mainly as a head's up to future students who might have an opportunity to be involved in this conference as a volunteer or in some other way (if you're brave, why not submit a proposal to present at the conference?) John Buschman is the closing plenary speaker and that's almost enough to […]
I went on a semester exchange to York England when I was in undergrad. Because of the constant excitement of new experiences and meeting new people and learning new things, I never really got homesick in my four months there, even though everybody warned me that I would. But when I got back to Canada, […]
GG winning author, Art Slade (who is coming to FIMS on October 23 for the Lunch Bucket speaker series – mark your calendars!), discusses the reasons he became (and stayed) a reader as a young boy on his blog. His answer? Heavy metal. Two thoughts. Why did I become a reader? I think mainly because […]
The Summer 2006 Spirit of Librarianship winner was announced at the Destressor on Wednesday afternoon. Bruce Fyfe came out on top in a very close race. It was a great event with a number of nice touches – they gathered all the nominees on the stage to be acknowledged before making the announcement, all nominees […]
Christina and I are planning to have a pool party on Friday afternoon to celebrate the end of the semester and one of the last chances for many of us to spend time together before some of us go off to co-op placements or off to the real world. We're planning to start at 2pm […]
When I first considered doing an independent study, I remember talking to Lynne and her recommending that I look through some of the past studies that were archived at the GRC. I went and paged through them and have to admit, I checked specifically to see which was the shortest one. “Okay,” I thought. “If […]
