A big group of us went out to Call The Office for Retro Night last night and had a blast. There was no flashing as alluded to the in the title of this post but breasts did play a role in the evening – first, in the discussion that happened at Holly's before the party […]
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Posted 23 May 2006
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Most weeks, we have a certain activity in our 525 – Managing Internet Information class to learn about or do and then we're supposed to report on it. This week's activity was to join the class Yahoo! Ggroup and then send a message with something useful or funny in it. I did as instructed and […]
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Posted 22 May 2006
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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 […]
Christina and Jonathan came over a couple weeks ago for drinks and one of the topics of conversation was some of the differences we've encountered between Ontario and Saskatchewan. Since it's the May long weekend and that's one of the things that came up, I thought this would be a good time to list a […]
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Posted 20 May 2006
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…people use it. It seems like common sense but sometimes organizations focus so much on controlling how the listserv is used that they neglect to encourage people to actually use it. By the way, the CLA conference is coming up next month in Ottawa and a bunch of people at school are planning to attend. […]
…I am now one of the three people involved in running LibrarianActivist.org, a great web site that I occasionally visited even before coming to library school and which provided all kinds of useful information for assignments last semester. My first boss in the non-profit world warned me that “the biggest problem with this type of […]
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Posted 17 May 2006
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I got a lengthy response to my “5 Ways To Improve Library School” post from Michael Thibault, the new Academic Rep for the MLIS Student Council (although he makes clear that he's only representing his own opinion.) I'd encourage anybody interested in issues around library school to read his comments and my response. Also, feel […]
I multiplied the number of books I've read this year by a factor of about seven today. Of course, I did this by reading the twenty-four or so pictures books that we have to have read for our Kid's Lit course this week in one marathon (such as it was) sitting. I was a bit […]
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Posted 16 May 2006
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Went to the Hawksley Workman show tonight (early show – I think London is the only place on the current tour that got two shows because of high demand. ) I might do a full review later but I'll just say that Hawksley Workman is awesome in concert and if you've never seen him before, […]
Spending the afternoon at the Grad Club yesterday with a bunch of first-term students got me thinking about what my first week here was like, what my first semester was like and ways that both could've been better. 1. Have a “Destressor” at the end of the first week of classes This way, each semester's […]
