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 […]
Just a couple shots from our KidLit class trip to Toronto last Friday. I don't know how the picture of JK Rowling's signature at the Osbourne Collection got on my digital camera because you're not allowed to take photos there! And a bonus image: the best use for an air conditioner…
Instead of taking a fifth class, I'm doing an independent study this summer on the relationship between book publishers and public libraries in Canada. Last night I finished the first section, a Literature Search of articles, books, web sites and other materials that dealt with this topic and as I talked about in an earlier […]
This Friday, our Children's Literature class is going on a field trip to Toronto. First, we're going to visit The Osborne Collection which is a public collection of rare children's books and which includes two other collections – the Lillian H. Smith Collection and the Canadiana Collection. The site features info about their current exhibit […]
One of my classmates in 525 – Managing Internet Information observed on the blog he had to set-up for a class assignment that his “initial impression of Blogging was that most contributors suffer from Blogorrhea. That is, an inability to control the output.” I admit that I suffer from a case of that disease. But […]
The Acting Associate Dean, Lynne McKechnie, sat down with members of the Student Council and a few interested students last Wednesday to discuss any and all issues with the program. It was a very good discussion and a lot of material was covered in the hour and a bit that the meeting lasted. As well, […]
I'm re-posting this notice as I know all of us get a lot of e-mail and sometimes gloss over them or ignore them completely. So I'm hoping that seeing it here might catch somebody's attention a bit more than it might otherwise by just arriving in their in-box. The work that the Peer Mentorship Committee […]
Ten Books To Feed The Imagination – includes the usual suspects such as Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling but a couple surprises as well. (via The Guardian) Classmate of the Day: I reminded Holly that she had a “birthday” today when a group of us sent for supper this evening which ended up getting us […]
Had our first 506 – Management course this morning and it was actually pretty good. I had this fear that some Ivey-esque (that's the name of the business school here – some rich dude “bought” the naming right on it. I wonder who'd buy the naming rights to FIMS? The JK Rowling School of Library […]
Concerts Are FunWent a bit crazy last night and bought tickets to both Bright Eyes (June) and Wilco (July), both at the Centennial Hall in London. Two of my favourite bands within a month – why not? Music Is PoliticalOne of (maybe the only) good thing about George Bush being in power in the US […]
