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 […]
Just in time for all my classmates' co-op interviews, Michael Stephens has posted: Ten Rules for the New Librarians which includes some tips for interviews in the comments.And from Michael Geist's blog, a Toronto Star story about a plan to implement city-wide wireless in Toronto.
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Posted 01 July 2006
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I have a classmate who was raised in a Christian fundamentalist household. She's in a children's lit class with me and we were talking about scary books we read as kids. She said that some of the Christian children's books she read as a child was the most frightening stuff she's ever read because unlike […]
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Posted 01 July 2006
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Book Burro is a Firefox extension that adds quick & easy comparison shopping ability for all your book buying needs. (via Ubuntu Essentials)
Just reading the CLA Bulletin and it sounds like they'll post speaker's presentations as they receive them (although that's currently a non-existent link so who knows?) But anyhow, if something shows up there, one of my complaints will have been unfounded (though I'd still love to see full video streams of all the sessions – […]
The entire 525 class had to post thoughts on our latest assignment on our personal blogs so I've been reading through my classmates' entries in between finishing my final 746 assignment (as of tomorrow, I'll have completed all of the assignments for “Collection Development in Academic Libraries”. Man, it looked like a very busy, very […]
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Posted 29 June 2006
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By: Jason HammondUWO Student Number: 250352538Mailbox Number: 140For: Professor Gord NickersonMLIS 525 – Managing Internet Information Systems Activity #5 Report – Secure Public Access Computing My Experience With UbuntuAt the risk of losing any “geek” credibility I may have, I have to admit that I’ve never used any version of Linux before. All of my […]
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Posted 28 June 2006
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These are my notes from probably the best session I attended at CLA (okay, it tied with Michael Geist's session on copyright but those were two totally different things. Or were they?) To put it in perspective, I wrote maybe a page in my notebook at most sessions I attended. I took six pages at […]
[2008-03-21 – Holly is a classmate who I think posted her impressions on our class's private Yahoo! group and who gave me permission to reprint them here.] The good:Sessions – “Is one stop shopping all we dreamed it would be? The Single search interface in action”This was great, it was a LAC librarian and two […]
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 […]
