Each semester, some students put together the “Book Zine” which is a collection of Top Ten book lists and other randomness. If you haven't submitted yet, you should! It's a great little memento of each semester that also will provide lots of great book suggestions. The deadline has just been extended. Here's the scoop:
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Our zine submission deadline has been extended to Friday, November
24th at noon, Mailbox 98 in the Grad Lounge or email your cool, wacky,
and/or inspirational top ten lists to lbussier@uwo.ca
If you haven't received submission info here it is:
1. Write your NAME and book recommendations or funky lists on a 4/5 x 5/5 piece of paper.
2. Decorate it however you like, but in BLACK INK as we just photocopy as is.
3. Drop off your list in mailbox 98 in the Grad Lounge or email submission to lbussier@uwo.ca
4. Contribute and get a FREE copy! Extras will be $2 and available at the Destressor.
5. For inspiration, look at previous issues which are held in the GRC.
Questions, concerns, comments can be directed to Linda: lbussier@uwo.ca
So far we've got some cool submissions such as
“Guide to the Books that Got Me Through Library School”;
“Top 5 Things to Draw During Class”;
“Top Ten Indie Albums of 2006”.
Previous submissions have included
“Top Ten Things to Say to Annoy Your Professors” and
“Top Ten Beers at the Grad Club”.
USE YOUR IMAGINATION — there must be some of it left even if it is 3 weeks from end of the semester.
Good luck & have fun.
Cheers,
Linda B.
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My submission this term was “Top 10 Memories of My Year at FIMS”. I've chosen not to identify people by name to protect the innocent (er, the guilty.)
My Favourite Memories of a Year at FIMS
10. A professor who's sick with a cold asks a student to read the day's lecture notes to the class for her. Admittedly the professor's sick but the illusion that her own lecture managed to put her to sleep when the professor nods off is unavoidable.
9. A student returning from the washroom during the middle of a 503 class goes to sit down on their chair…and misses.
8. Someone asks “What does this have to do with libraries?” during a particularly off-topic 506 class.
7. Someone reads the “fuck” section of the Dictionary of Slang during the Freedom to Read Week student reading in February.
6. The one time a group did a presentation without using Powerpoint (hard to believe, I know!)
5. A group of students show up to class with red eyes and the munchies after smoking a very fragrant cigarette.
4. Two students watching a movie on a laptop during class nearly get caught when the professor suddenly walks down the aisle to ask them a question. (By the way, if you don't think professors know what you get up to when you bring your laptop to class, you're delusional.)
3. In defence of bringing laptops to class, a student is able to point out that the prof's analogy that the Internet is like a “spider web tattoo across the face of the globe” has another meaning…spider web tattooes are also a gang symbol that you've killed someone while in prison.
2. A group of students shave someone's head after a night of drinking (Since I was there, I feel obligated to mention the person volunteered and was conscious, although wobbly, the entire time. Oh, and that it wasn't me that got my head shaved. I was Assistant Barber #2.)
1. An instructor, the following day, facing a wall of beer stench, says sarcastically: “This process is a hangover…is that the right word?…no, a holdover…from the early days of librarianship.”
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