Archive of information science

In which Metafilter links and I fret

on September 16th, 2003 in Cornell, Digital Library, information science, Ithaca, Library school, Linguistics, Michigan by | Comments Off

EEE! I’m quite excited about being linked on Metafilter, but was it just me, or did some snarky person imply that the name Librarian Avengers is a possessive plural? I’m so confused. There aren’t even any adjective-noun agreement issues, and hello, avengers serves as a collective noun anyway. It’s like…

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Revolting Librarians Redux

on April 22nd, 2003 in Avenging, Books, Cornell, information science, Librarians in popular culture, Librarianship, Library school by | Comments Off

The section of the library dedicated to books on librarianship is located outside my office door. I thumbed through a few of them this morning. I was curious what a book on librarianship looked like, since I never really saw that many at “library school”. Most were from the 70s…

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I graduated… where’s my houseboat?

on April 19th, 2003 in Career, Cornell, information science, Library school by | Comments Off

First of all, and lets just get this out of the way: a full-time job is actually a pretty shoddy reward for 2.5 years of graduate school stress. Yes, I’m grateful and all, glad to be here, nice to meet ya, etc. but frankly, I think I was looking for…

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