And worst of all, no one here thinks I’m funny

I’m in a class called Storytelling, which is, in fact, a class that teaches students to be better storytellers.  Although I took it with the desire for a more light-hearted summer course I admit that I’m really enjoying it.
This week we’ve been working on family and personal stories.  Although I feel that I’ve got some [...]

Another use of Zotero

Dear Non-Library Nerds,
You can stop reading now.
Signed,
This Girl
I started using Zotero to manage my documents for class.  Although this bibliographic tool (it stores documents, allows you to add notes and tags, inserts citations into your Word document, and then builds a bibliography based upon the documents you use–all built seamlessly within the Firefox browser) is [...]

You know you’re not actually a librarian, right?

When I worked at a library in college I sometimes called myself a “librarian” just to make it easier when I explained my job to others.  Somewhere along the way I stopped that practice because I began to recognize that it was kind of like calling myself a doctor when I was just a candy-striper.   [...]

what kinna patois you speak’n there, girl?

Maybe it’s grad school.  Or all the living in my head I do.  Or the Grammar Girl podcasts.  Or maybe I’ve reached that point where my mind has found a heightened sense of intellect. (I hardly think it the latter)
But I’ve noticed that my writing style has changed (I’ve started using words like latter) and [...]

Keep on keep’n on

I’ve been rather MIA since leaving Champaign last weekend (or, since March, really).  You’d think that ending classes would have positively impact a person’s schedule, but I’ve been working on putting my ideas together for a poster presentation at LOEX tomorrow.  My room is currently in shambles–piles from the semester, last week’s trip to Champaign, [...]

with or without you

In class yesterday the professor was discussing the upcoming midterm–giving specifics as to length, etc, and easing people’s apprehensiveness.  For the laptop users in the class, she is allowing the use of a word-processor as long as we promise not to search the internet during the exam.
I raised my hand and asked if one decided [...]

“First we’ll make snow angels for a two hours, then we’ll go ice skating, then we’ll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookiedough as fast as we can, and then we’ll snuggle.”

Sandy and I spent the last 24 hours celebrating Christmas in all its joy. After I worked all day on my paper we took the train into the city to watch and discuss Elf with nuns. It is one of my top Christmas movies and I laugh at it as if I am [...]

Not that I’m an expert or anything

I’ve been sitting at the reference desk (thats right, that age-old place where a librarian is willing and ready to answer your questions) for a number of weeks now.  Mind you, they are not very willing to give us more than an hour a week, and I try to milk it for all its worth, [...]

grabbing at the air

I went to my hometown library this past week and couldn’t believe how small the space was. It is interesting to visit such places, as I now look at them with a different eye and wonder what type of budget they’re under. The place isn’t anything special, but it is certainly active, which [...]

Filling in the gaps.

I was at a conference over the weekend and between sessions stopped at the University library of the DePaul campus to ask the reference librarian to look up mass times for that day.  In short, the experience was horrendous as far as my classes have taught me and I was busy analyzing ever detail in [...]