Musings on library school, books, technology, and other things by a library school student, computer geek and bibliophile.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2006
Crunch time has come for my summer job (for those that don’t know, I’m the Graduate Assistant for a summer course that’s the intro course for UA’s library program). We’ll be entertaining nearly 90 new librarians-to-be for all of next week and all of my free time between now and August 1st I now consider [...]
Posted in Allegedly Funny on Jul 18th, 2006
Okay, I think I may have found my dream town: Forks, Washington. The Mayor of Forks was interviewed on “All Things Considered” yesterday because Forks was predicted to have the lowest high temperature in the country. During the interview the mayor mentioned that people in town start complaining about the heat when the temps climb [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 18th, 2006
If you’re reading this, then the behind the scenes renovation to Adventures in Library School has been completed and nothing went terribly wrong.
Posted in England Trip, Libraries, UNC Oxford Seminar '06 on Jul 17th, 2006
Friday was an eventful day at the seminar, with two scheduled presentations (one on preservation and one on emergency planning for libraries) and a tour of the botanic gardens. I also managed to get in on an unexpected tour… but I’m getting ahead of myself.
How to Have Fun in Libraries Without Killing the Collections: The [...]
Posted in England Trip, Libraries, UNC Oxford Seminar '06 on Jul 16th, 2006
Thursday was our excursion to London to take a tour of the British Library, and it was interesting to see the contrasts between it and the Bodleian.
While both the Bodleian and the British Library are legal deposit libraries and both have major research collections (and to some extent, a similar focus in offering their research [...]
Posted in England Trip, Libraries, UNC Oxford Seminar '06 on Jul 16th, 2006
Wednesday was actually a fairly light day for the seminar, there were only two presentations (although one was quite long and involved much group participation).
Overview of Qualification Routes for UK Librarians/Career Paths
The first presentation concerned qualifications for librarians in the UK and was officially presented by Gill Powell, Staff Development at Oxford University Library System, [...]
Posted in Allegedly Funny, Classification, Geekery, Libraries, Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2006
So, what do geek librarians in training do on a rainy Friday afternoon? We translate the Dewey Decimal System into Binary, of course! (For those of you who are unfamiliar with binary numbers, the following article from Wikipedia will tell you more than you probably ever wished to know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system)
So, here I present the much [...]
Posted in Life in Tucson, Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2006
I think I may have to stop badmouthing the Tucson climate (at least temporarily), for it appears that we are actually going to have a Monsoon season this year (there was an official announcement that the season had started on the radio today). I think I’ve seen more rain here in the past week or [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2006
Some behind the scenes maintenance I’ve been working on this past weekend seems to have goofed up some of my administrative controls, and I’ve discovered that perhaps I didn’t install my WordPress software quite where I should have. Oh, who am I kidding, I’m just being obsessive-compulsive and I want to neaten everything up.
As a [...]
