Hard to believe I'm finished my first semester as of today! I got my course registration list for the summer a couple days ago: 506 Management 525 Managing Internet Information Services 566 Children's and Young Adult Literature 697 Individual Study 746 Special Topic: Introduction to Collection Development Practices in Academic Libraries I'm going to do […]
Now that I'm a cagey veteran library student with a whole semester under my belt (well, two days from now), I thought I would pass along some of the wisdom (as opposed to data, information or knowledge) that I've picked up in the last fourteen weeks. Ten Tips For New Library Students in UWO's FIMS […]
After an intense (?) build-up, the Spirit of Librarianship Award goes to… (drum roll)…me. Without being too egotistical, I'm not too surprised. I heard I got more nominations than some people got votes, I was the only one from first term nominated (and only the second first-termer to win it) so I got lots of […]
[2007-03-20 – this page continues to be one of the most hit pages on my site for reasons I cannot figure – I assume it is the mention of either Darth Vader or Eminem. But those terms have millions of other sites that should be ahead of mine in your searches. So if you have […]
I'm doing an annotated bibliography on the corporatization of public libraries for 501 (sort of a recurring theme with my work here so far) and then I have to do a Request for Proposals for 505. Then I'm done my first semester of library school. How crazy is that? Next week is going to be […]
Some days I feel like the Bionic Librarian. I keep my digital camera in my left jacket pocket (Quinn called me a shutterbug today – I think I've taken 300 photos in the short time I've had the camera and I'm always pulling it out at any gathering we have), I have a jump drive […]
My Grade Two teacher is my favourite teacher of all-time. Her buying the class doughnuts on a monthly basis has a lot to do with it. But I think we've got a new champ. Proof? – give a kick-ass introductory class and an even better wrap-up class that draws tears from many in the class […]
Got this from Jillian “Cenobyte” Bell. Think about this … On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That won't ever happen again. Thank you…You may now return to your (normal?) life. She wrote that she thought I was […]
Had a long day today – discussed an assignment with my 503 instructor (“discussed” might not be the best word to use but I'm trying to be polite), met with the Acting Associate Dean to discuss an upcoming speaker in our speaker series and also to get approval to do an Individual Study project as […]
One of the first things our class did when we started was set-up a Yahoo! listserv so all us first termer's would have a way to easily communicate with each other without having to use official class lists (which aren't necessarily meant for that purpose anyhow.) So far the listserv has facilitated discussion of assignments, […]
