shinylib

I am feeling peevish today, sorry shiny readers. One of my biggest pet peeves with students is that they don’t bother to learn the names of things. Who is your instructor? I dunno, she’s got brown hair and works on Mondays. What book are you looking for? That business one with the spiral edge. WHICH [...]

This is totally what happens every time. I sit down with things to say. The phone rings. I spent 20 minutes explaining the process to search our OPAC for streaming videos. Why is it a note field that you have to search? It just is. What’s a note field? A field with notes. Not a [...]

Argh!
Sometimes you just need to begin a post with ‘argh’. It’s true. Why am I so bad at leaving work on time? I swear I had a better reason than I usually do–I was helping a student this time, but still. I am terrible at leaving work on time.
At my previous campus it was not [...]

My freakin’ wrists are killing me. No combination of anti-inflammatory, brace, and stretching has come close to fixing it. A smart person might take this as a sign to type less. Me? I have two handouts to create by Wednesday.
I totally did not apply for ACRL Emersion 08. I really wanted to, and I sat [...]

Phew. The impending arrival of finals week gives me a minute to breathe and compose a post. Of course the knocking on my office door from frantic students looking to find me does hamper the writing somewhat.
I can’t believe that my first quarter as an academic librarian is coming to a close. I have been [...]

Hi. Long time no blog. I have been riding the post-graduation roller coaster: recover from visiting friends and family, have panic attacks induced by the unfamiliar feeling of doing nothing, realize that I have a “real” job that begins in a few weeks, freak out over the former realization, etc… All of this has resulted [...]