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Best. career guide. ever.
The instructor for my Public Library Services for Youth class has been circulating his copy of this book around our class as part of his general crusade to turn us all into rockstar librarians. In contrast to the miles of thick career books taking up the shelves of every bookstore from here to never, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko is short and to ( Read more... ) -
Our new apartment
I think it might take me a week or two to stop feeling like I live in a hotel. I have lived in apartments before, but not the midrise variety where I go in a keyed entry, take an elevator up, and enter my home from a carpeted hallway of identical doors. Theophan is considering putting up a whiteboard on the door so we can pretend we live in a ( Read more... ) -
Memory eternal - Mary Helen
My grandmother reposed early this morning after a battle with cancer. She was 72 years old, with four children and ten grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. May her memory be eternal.
The last time I saw my grandmother was a few weeks ago. We met her at the train station to see her off on her way to her Hawaiian cruise. That was what she ( Read more... ) -
Stupid cold/flu thing
I blame the paper. I think it made me sick. However, it is finished and turned it, even if it did degenerate into a rant about how we can't just focus on access without paying attention to information literacy, which I'm pretty sure is not what I was supposed to be writing about. I was supposed to be discussing some reports and articles on the ( Read more... ) -
550 can bite me
I am in the middle of a paper on the policy of digital divide (see my previous, massively over-simplified explanation to Xara) and I feel like screaming. I recognize that an understanding of the complex social and political aspects of information is a good thing for a librarian to have, but I am intellectually unsuited to this area of study. I ( Read more... ) -
Prize quote of the day
"Studies that control for media exposure have also reported that readers or viewers with more prior knowledge of a topic are better able to assimilate new information." Viswanath and Finnegan, quoted in an article on digital divide by DiMaggio et al ( Read more... ) -
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Phrase of the day from collection dev. class
Noise to achievement ratio
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LIS 520 - Final class notes /sob
Final project details ( Read more... ) -
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Snow!
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Reference titles that make me smile
Bolton's Catalogue of Ants of the World, 1758-2005
Encyclopedia of Diet Fads
I won't be including them, but the fact that they came up in my searches made me smile.