Questions abound

[luciab]

It's been a quiet day here in Lake Wobegone... maybe I shoulda made some Powdermilk Biscuits to get things moving, instead of my usual yogurt with fruit. I practiced some calligraphy this AM in preparation for doing the Ten Thousand Villages invitation. Most of it will be a Word font, but the front will have some real live calligraphy from mine

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[zihuatanejo]

I'll be attending SILS in August, if you want an 'in' at library school!

The classes do sound weird, and many of my real live library school friends say, yes, a lot of them are mind-numbingly boring. But there are many parts to a library, and each is *highly* specialized. For instance, I want to do archives, and I'm currently a copy cataloger, thus all the information science and database classes seem like a lot of fun. If you want to be a reference librarian, though, other classes will make more sense for you. The same with children's librarians. The most boring classes, IMHO, are the management ones. But then again, I don't want to be library admin :-) It's also helpful to keep in mind that it's hard to label a class that teaches you how cataloging systems work. The How-To-Wand-In-Barcodes-And-What-That-Does-In-The-Actual-Computer-Software class wouldn't be very popular.

[luciab]

Where are you attending? I looked at UNC and NCCU classes, but I know there's also a school in G'boro.

I really do feel like the surveyor wannabe I mentioned; I don't know what a lot of the more specialized stuff is. I'm not particularly interested in Reference. The special library I'd be interested in, if any, is Design, but I figure there will be very few openings at the Design library. Basically, I do very poorly with juggling many tasks at once, and very well at focusing on one thing at a time. Whatever works best with that sounds good. ;>

[zihuatanejo]

I'm going to UNC. http://sils.unc.edu/... )

[luciab]

Cool beans! We need to talk, I think. I don't mind interacting with people, at least what I've done so far. That would be volunteering at Ten Thousand Villages, where I work the sales floor. I've been reading some of the library lists here, and I can see that I haven't experienced the full range of the public. Heh. I'm also basing a lot of my thoughts on what I see at the Cameron Village, Cary and Apex branches of the Wake Co system. I'm volunteering at Cam Village now and enjoying it. The archiving that you're talking about sounds good, too.

Thanks for the course translations-- helpful.

[zihuatanejo]

We should definitely talk. We seem to have a lot in common--migraines, politics, bookish stuff, Livia (my new neighbor), and art. I've been trying to get started in the SCA illumination world, but I keep getting sidetracked. It's hard to do much in the SCA without being properly outfitted with clothing, first. A-tunic makin', I have been. C'est la vie.

You're volunteering at the CV branch? Cool. What do you do there?