Category: personal
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Post-graduation, post-Boston
It’s hard to believe that the last two years went by so fast, but yes, I’m now an official, bona fide librarian. Not only have I graduated and received my MSLIS (yes, I’m a master of science), but I got a real librarian job, to boot. I will be the new Systems/Metadata Librarian at Whitman…
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A new librarian’s on-the-job guide
Today is my last day of graduate school. As of May 11, I will be an official, bona fide librarian! The perfect time to read an excellent bit of advice from the blog Info Career Trends: Ask Permission Later. Rachel gives some excellent advice for new librarians, encouraging us not to be fearful in our…
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My Tweets
Sean came up with a way to output your Tweet stream and input it into Wordle. It’s pretty fun. I love visualizations.
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Winter is Evil
Sean put it best when he wrote this, about the challenges of massive snowfall for those on foot. I had decided that I was going to try to be positive about winter this year, seeing as it will be my last New England winter and I’m vowing not to waste energy being angry about unchangeable…
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Back to school, back to school, to prove to Dad I’m not a fool
Oh, how lame am I? I don’t post in weeks, months, eons, and when I finally do, it’s just to say, “This chick is saying something pretty cool.” I’m back in the swing of things in my second year of Library School, and wow! This year is way busier than last year. I mean, I…
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Oooh, surveys are fun
I just saw this one on Alison’s awesome blog, Spinstah. No, I wasn’t tagged, but I don’t even care. I’m going to answer it because I have a weird fondness for survey questions and these are good. And I would tag Miss Crystal with this one, but I highly suspect her blog won’t be updated…
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New new job
Life really has been changing drastically, and quickly, since I started library school, and now there is more big change on the horizon: I just got a new job. The opportunity came about so suddenly; I really expected to be at the Schlesinger for at least a year but passing up this job would have…
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My First Day at the Library
Today was my first day working as a public services assistant at the Schlesinger Library. This job practically landed in my lap and I can’t imagine a better place to start my new and improved career in librarianship. It’s almost as though the Schlesinger’s collections were designed with me in mind–American women’s history and culinary…
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Why is it harder to write about words?
Well, I certainly floundered at the starting block with this one. In the month since setting up this fancy blog, dedicated to books and libraries and other nerdy ephemera, I have written all of…oh wait, yup…nothing. It’s not that I’m not reading something. I’m always reading something. Usually multiple somethings. Currently, the hot ticket on…
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Words for nerds?
Besides cooking, the other major time sucker in my life is reading, so I figured, since I’m apparently on a roll, everyone should be subjected to my thoughts on books and various text-sources, right alongside my thoughts on tortillas and tortellinis. (I also figured my thoughts on the final two time suckers in life, beer…