Archive for June, 2005

wouldn’t you like to be a blogger too?

Friday, June 10th, 2005

Well, if you’ve ever given it any thought and you’re going to ALA, here’s your chance. Not quite ready to commit to your own blog? The Free Range Librarian details how you can blog (and party) with LITA, no experience required. Over at the Unofficial ALA Wiki, Luke of lbr blog has […]

registration update

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

I just took the radical information-gathering step of calling the GSLIS office directly to see if I could learn anything more about registration for fall courses. Here’s what I learned:

the fall scehdule of courses will be available sometime in the beginning of July
registration starts, like, the 3rd or 4th week of July
none of this is […]

but where are the books?

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

When I was little and went to other people’s houses, I often wandered around, poking my head into whatever nooks and crannies I could find, wondering where these people kept their books. I often feel the same way in library school. I don’t have a place that I keep the books on this blog yet, […]

the user is often right

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

Aaron Schmidt, Dominican graduate, author of walking paper and librarian at the Thomas Ford Library in Western Springs (they’ve got wi-fi and green lamps and a job opening for a magazine reference person (so head over there and apply!) has an excellent post about being user-centered instead of library-centered. If you’ve taken Reference, you’ve probably […]

news roundup

Friday, June 3rd, 2005

Two reasons to be glad you don’t live in Oklahoma–although in all fairness, I have a friend who lives there, and the second link shows there at least a few signs of hope. Anyway, I mention this not only to keep you up-to-date on the Dustbowl but also to point out that American Libraries, the […]