I enjoy when students talk about their courses. I find that each department approaches the dicipline and professional practice in such different ways.

Just picked my courses:

FIS2127H - Collection, Development, Evaluation and Management FIS2172H - Readers’ Advisory:Reference Work and Resource FIS2300H - Special Topics: Information Literacy FIS2199H - Special Topics in Info. Studies: Advocacy and Library Issues (no […]

I think the real danger is to see technology as the complete solution. Patrons not coming to the library: must be because there is no Flickr group. Reference service stats down: must be because IM reference is so horrible, or non existent. Teenagers choosing Google over books: we need a Second Life presence.

There is a problem in society and culture right now where people choose cheap and easy information satisfactions over long, difficult but ultimately more enriching ones. True, we should use technology to fulfil the later, but it is not going to do the work for us, nor solve all of our problems.

In about a week it will have been one year since I moved this blog to its own server; in about a month it will have been a year since I began library school. In that time there has been much discussion about the challenges facing the library and its future directions. What these […]

Despite the mythological associations to the contrary, summer has always been a time of renewal, rebirth and personal development. The theme for this summer seems to be “Know Thyself,” as more and more of who I thought I was comes unraveled.

The first thing to admit: maybe Internet culture is not that good.

I’ve been part […]