Talking to someone about the Spirit of Librarianship nomination and they observed: “You are the only person stupid enough to actually want to work in a public library that is smart enough to know what that means.”
Hello to any visitors from the Alberta library and writing communities. Thanks to all of you who took the time to respond to my e-mail queries regarding user fees in Alberta libraries. All comments, on both sides of the issue, were very useful. I've put my paper online (141 kb PDF) and I think it's […]
TEN REASONS I HATE GEORGE W. BUSH 1. He thinks he is right all the time and will not admit to errors, even when he is proven wrong over and over again. 2. He only sees one way of doing things, only one right answer. 3. He mangles the language constantly, often using bad metaphors […]
The official list of nominees for the Spirit of Librarianship Award was released the other day. It's too bad they don't give you a little blurb on who people are and why they were nominated as I think that would help people make up their minds, especially if you don't know some (any) of the […]
Just finished my 504 research proposal that's due in, oh, six hours and a bit. This isn't really a case of “last-minute-itis” though. (I've been working pretty hard on it for the last two weeks.) Instead, it's another problem I've discovered here that I never had an undergrad. Namely, I can't let things go. I […]
“I get most of my calories and all of my self-esteem from beer.” “Do I know you?” “I'm in your class.” “Oh, I only have time to meet the alcoholics in that class.” “I think we need a pellet gun. Or we could just throw empty glasses.” “Bugs Bunny had some pretty racist early cartoons. […]
It's killing me but I'm having to change the focus of a a paper I'm doing for my “501 – Perspectives on Library and Information Science” class. Originally, I was going to compare the differences between the public library systems in Alberta (the only place in Canada along with Quebec that charges user fees for […]
I've always thought one of the best things about librarians/library schools is that they attrack a range of people from all different academic fields of study. I mean, if you're doing a Masters in English, you pretty much know all your classmates have English undergrad degrees. But in this program, we have one person with […]
The following are some subjects I've been able to explore in my first semster of library school via essays and other assignments. I'm pretty happy with this and am looking forward to exploring the many other topics of interest in future semesters… – the meaning of information – whether librarians should be social activists – […]
After an enormous smear on my character, just because I happened to be looking at web pages of belly-dancing librarians at two in the morning (), I started thinking to myself: what are the similarities between librarians and porn stars? (Not to say that belly dancers are porn stars, of course!) I couldn't think of […]
