Our first Lunch Bucket speaker of the summer will be on Wednesday July 19 from 12-1pm. Jean McKay is a local author and creative writing instructor who has published in a variety of genres. Her latest book is titled “Exploded View: Observations on Reading, Writing and Life.” Come out and hear about the process an […]
This was the second slide in a presentation that Linda Schneider of the FIMS Graduate Resource Centre gave to our “Collections Development” course back in early June. She joked about using my intellectual property without permission so now I get to do the same to her! As I blog about strippers and porn and […]
How Hot Is It In Ontario Right Now?“It's hotter than a bull's balls when the summer stalls” as we say out west. (Actually we don't say this out west – I just made it up. If somebody did say this, I have a strong suspicion that a guy in a cowboy hat would beat them […]
A week ago I blogged about how, since I was half done my second semester of three, I was half-done the program. But in my head, I've always thought of June 30/July 1 (okay, July 2 as I'm getting to this post a day later than I meant to) as the “real” halfway point of […]
Math is apparently not my specialty because when I wrote an entry or two ago that the summer semester was half-over as of Friday, it took a conversation with Lindsay today to make me realise that for anyone in the program planning to do it in one year straight (three semesters of five classes each […]
Tomorrow marks the halfway point of the summer semester. I'll be at the Grad Club around noon to have a drink and to celebrate this milestone in “flimsy excuses to go for a drink.” Anybody who's reading this and around campus is invited to join me (and the crowds of soccer hooligans who are sure […]
Here's the report that a couple classmates sent to our class listserv with their take on the CLA conference… —The good:The 2 best presentations we saw were on Thursday, one on recruitment in Academic Libraries, and the other was a debate on whether we as librarians have made ourselves obsolete over the past decade. The […]
Just back from the CLA conference (it officially ended up Saturday but we stayed an extra day to do some sightseeing and so we'd have a full day to drive home instead of rushing on Saturday.) Turns out this was a wise decision as I'll explain later… Saturday, I was again up very early and […]
I'm doing a topic of my own choice for one of the assignments in our children's library class and have asked the half dozen or so men in the class for their assistance. But I figured I might as well put this out to anybody who happens across this blog as well since I'm looking […]
1. Time ManagementOne of my professors told me this in my first week and I've heard it repeatedly since – the biggest secret to succeeding in library school is to manage your time wisely. Being a compressed program makes this especially difficult as do the number of assignments we have – not all are intensive […]
