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Hm. I am bummed. I just got word that a nursing student has threatened to file a grievance against one of the nursing faculty. The student received a poor grade on a paper due to the ridiculously non-APA citations she submitted.
The student alleges that a librarian told her that the citations were fine. She also [...]

Man, sometimes you just get on autopilot and there’s nothin’ to be done for it.
I prepped for a reading class tonight and when I went to teach the class I was told, “But that’s not their assignment!” It was however the assignment the instructor had sent me…twice.
So, I pretty much had to make it up [...]

Since I posted about my quest for moon boots the other day I’ve been thinking and rethinking some of my views. I’ve also been using our current housebound-due-to-snow status to catch up on a lot of reading. I suspect I’m about to go on a really long ramble.
I’ve talked in the past about the debate [...]

I taught this writing class last night and had a really awesome time. The students were very with it and into what was going on. Y’know, the type who actually respond when you ask them stuff.
But this one guy was especially interesting.* He was prone to outbursts as well as various mutterings.
I can’t for the [...]

I have been thinking about instruction a lot recently. I’m the kind of nerd who actively thinks about teaching when she’s not doing it. This relates directly to why I don’t have a life, but that’s kind of outside the box. Anyway, I was thinking about the nursing students in particular over the summer because [...]

Man. It’s been a while since I’ve had much to say…or more to the point, since I’ve had time to say anything.
We’re just entering week 2 of the Fall term here. Our instruction schedule is just a wee bit scary, although certainly not unmanageable. There’s been a lot of speculation about what’s driving the current [...]

I had been ignoring the passion quilt meme for the most part, but Ellie <3 libraries prompted me to think about how to use this meme to sum up some of my thoughts on my IL instruction process. Maybe this will get me off my rump and moving forward on that article I should be [...]

There has been a recent discussion on the Community and Junior College Libraries listserv regarding the use of Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress classification schemes in community college libraries. Not surprisingly, members of the list have been quite vocal in expressing their views on the use of either.
Much of the discussion centers on the [...]

Well, I made it home from Midwinter in one piece. The same really can’t be said for my luggage. I think Delta has some kind of beef with me… that’s another story for a different blog.
There have been many occasions in my life where I have blamed a general lack of alertness (alertitude?) on jetlag; [...]

I was talking with a colleague (an on-call librarian) last night about the reality of being a librarian here in Portlandia. Usually you have to cobble together umpteen part-time and on-call jobs in hopes of coming away with a semi-decent resume. {Before I was offered my current temporary FT position I was looking at three [...]