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 […]
So after my last entry explaining why I'm not getting the marks that my overachieving classmates are, I come in to find I (finally!) got a 90% on one of my assignments. I've gotta admit, it feels good. The irony is that I didn't think I did as well as on the one I wrote […]
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Posted 26 March 2006
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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 – […]
From Porn Star librarians to Pretzel Librarians…up until now, my policy of not posting embarrassing photos of people (hi Derek!) without their permission has been a sensible one. But this can't go unrecorded…(yes, that is my mentor, the infamous Sabina – doesn't she look like a librarian with those glasses?) Click on the thumbnail to […]
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Posted 23 March 2006
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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 […]
That's what happens when you go to all the tech sessions and hang out with the techies – your photo shows up all over the place… I'm on the right side, about five rows back in the yellow shirt with the black t-shirt underneath. The lady two to my right is Fran Gray who is […]
In our “503 – Reference Sources & Services” class, each week a few students have signed up to send around a summary of the readings for that week's class. I'm not sure if this is the purpose but it's a great idea for those weeks when you don't get to assigned readings yourself. I was […]
I had a teacher in Grade Seven who strongly believed that “nobody should get 100% because nobody is perfect.” It was an interesting theory except this person was teaching math. To a bunch of grade seven kids. We're not talking about advanced calculus here or even something subjective like English or Art where you could […]
Yay! Our digital camera finally arrived today after two weeks of waiting, UPS losing the first one that shipped (that's the official line anyhow) and many, many phone calls to New York. It's not as bad as it seems – it was only a week longer than I expected, the hit at the border for […]
