This really has been a strange summer. I've been taking vacation in odd bunches here and there, I managed to tweak my back a week or so ago so that was a setback, and nobody at work knows when to expect me in because I'm either at my desk, on vacation or in collective bargaining ( Read more... )

...I've been running searches on various food-related issues to see whether we hold the journals they appear in.

Just ran into consecutive articles related to Elevated blood lead levels in urban moonshine drinkers.

I'll consider myself warned.

Next term I'm going to start booking half-hour research help appointments instead of hour-long ones. And for sure next fall. I've got so many health professions students asking me for appointments that... well, I feel like giving them broth without any bread, et cetera ( Read more... )

The ones who poured through my office all through August, looking for help on their big research project ( Read more... )

I started the day with a 7:30 AM meeting with a student--which I never do, but it was that same physio kid who has the learning disability and the draft of her big-ass research proposal was due at nine, and when she's putting that much effort into her degree I kind of feel like I should help where I can ( Read more... )

Yeah, I totally did not mean to buzz off like that for a week. Last Thursday I flew to Calgary for the Canadian Health Libraries Association annual conference. Terrific conference--there were a bunch of really interesting keynote speakers, a number of good contributed papers, I took a continuing education session on the Friday, about teaching ( Read more... )

--A story, from my teaching days ( Read more... )

I TOTALLY earned my keep this morning ( Read more... )

So I'm filling out the scheduling calendar for the shared reference service our university participates in.

One of the service providers is named "Sandy."

Every single time I type her name, I hear this in my head:

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I'm not complaining, but for her sake I'm grateful we don't work in the same building, because you never know when I might break ( Read more... )

Okay, spending a whole day without LJ was quite a bit more traumatic for me than it probably should have been ( Read more... )