Based on the five strategic plans presented today in my Library/Information Center Management class, anyone trying to get into librarianship with a full-time job right now would be better off looking into corporate (privately-funded) libraries/archives/information centers.
Public libraries aren't doing that well, unless you live in a rich community. Thanks a lot/for nothing, Governator.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Server Gerbil Night at the Bar
Once Saturday hits midnight and crosses into Sunday, the central website for our online classes goes down. One of the people in my group for a class project suggested that it will go back up once they put the gerbil back on the wheel.
I thought it was just the server that went offline to go hit the bars. Apparently it's the gerbil that powers the servers that goes to the bars.
This really has nothing to do with school, but I am tired and still have many pages to work through.
I thought it was just the server that went offline to go hit the bars. Apparently it's the gerbil that powers the servers that goes to the bars.
This really has nothing to do with school, but I am tired and still have many pages to work through.
Friday, April 11, 2008
The Perils of Group Projects in Distance Learning
My group has been remarkably relaxed with our Strategic Plan, even though it is due next Sunday. We seem to be in good shape for it, but I have this nagging overachiever tendency to think that more should be done, tempered by the underachiever tendency to do the least work for the most results.
It seems like the other people in the group are not as responsive as I would like them to be to my emails and forum posts, but I am afraid of being more persistent with the emails and forum posts. I'd rather not piss them off.
I don't dislike the other people in my group, I just don't like how this is set up. Somehow I thought there would be the awkward teething stage in terms of getting used to group projects with people I will hardly see face to face or may never see face to face, but it seemed to be gelling better in a group for another class.
Perhaps more constant deadlines and shorter assignments make it easier for that.
This is frustrating; a necessary evil.
It seems like the other people in the group are not as responsive as I would like them to be to my emails and forum posts, but I am afraid of being more persistent with the emails and forum posts. I'd rather not piss them off.
I don't dislike the other people in my group, I just don't like how this is set up. Somehow I thought there would be the awkward teething stage in terms of getting used to group projects with people I will hardly see face to face or may never see face to face, but it seemed to be gelling better in a group for another class.
Perhaps more constant deadlines and shorter assignments make it easier for that.
This is frustrating; a necessary evil.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
A step in the right direction...I hope
Distance learning is taking a toll... on my social skills. I can't really afford to go out much since that usually requires money, which I don't have, since I am currently an unemployed graduate student.
Somehow I think starting a blog will help fix this. Let's see how it goes!
Somehow I think starting a blog will help fix this. Let's see how it goes!
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