Jul
15
2006
Erica Firment
ne of the things I managed to learn in Librarian School is that you can (and probably should) research everything. So about an hour into The Food Poisoning, I got online and found a bunch of handy tips, which included such things as “drink tons of water” (no matter what happens to it afterward). The handy tips seem to have helped, and I’ve now worked my way up to drinking ginger tea WITH HONEY. The best part is I can rest assured that I’m vomiting in a reasonable and well-researched way.
4 comments | posted in Librarianship, Library school, Life
Mar
25
2006
Erica Firment
did a talk at a convention in Detroit a few weeks ago in which I encouraged people to become librarians. I started out with this quiz. Now it’s your turn.
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Am I Geeky enough to be a Librarian?
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| 1. I enjoy acronyms. |
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| 2. I own a cat. |
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| 3. When confronted with a pile of books I think "Hmm…first I would sort by author, then by title? |
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| 4. I am obsessive enough to appreciate the difference between 345.065 and 345.605. |
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| 5. I possess a useless undergraduate degree. |
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| 6. Being surrounded by books makes me lather with delight. |
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| 7. The idea of someone preventing me from reading Orwell because they don’t like it strikes me as Orwellian. |
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| 8. I am comfortable with the Internets. |
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| 9. If my house caught on fire, one of the things I would grab is my favorite book. |
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| 10. I possess a useless graduate degree. |
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| 11. I can daisy-chain a herd of Ubuntu boxes faster than you can say FreeBSD. |
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| 12. These kids today. I swear. If they would just read a damn book once in awhile, they wouldn’t be blowing each other up so much. |
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| 13. I could find out the middle name of your high school boyfriend with just ten minutes on the Internet. |
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| 14. I could find out the first line of A Tale of Two Cities with just ten seconds on the Internet. |
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| 15. I know the first line of A Tale of Two Cities. |
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| 16. I am a disenfranchised intellectual. |
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| 17. The idea of arming the public with knowledge appeals to me more than, say, arming them with pitchforks and torches. |
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| 18. I would rather do something cool than get rich. |
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| 19. I possess a useless doctoral degree. |
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| 20. I can say "Colon classification" without laughing. |
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Scoring
Under 5 = I think the “We hate libraries” meeting is down the hall.
5-10 = You are geeky, but can you HANDLE the acronyms?
10-15 = I’ve got some library school applications under my desk you big dork
15-20 = Quit your job immediately! Grab the nearest child and teach him to read! Oh, and start stocking up on acid-free paper.
59 comments | posted in Favorite Posts, Librarianship, Library school
Feb
1
2006
Erica Firment
“That’s the duty of the old,” said the Librarian, “to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.” -Phillip Pullman, The Golden Compass
Sorry about my lack of posts this week. Work just decided to grow teeth and latch onto my leg like a rutting badger. I’ve been enjoying your comments about library school. I think in lieu of a decent series of posts, I’m going to dig out my old library school blog and put it up for your amusement.
Of course, we called it Information School back then.
3 comments | posted in Library school
