is that you almost need to have a love/hate relationship with the patrons. some days i'm totally game for whatever questions they bring and others i despise the bastards for the dumbassery [invented word, i know] they bring to my desk.
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ah, and just for the mad, mad fun of it, the powers that be have made our workstations able to read USB keys and do word-processing. I shall blog my opinions about this later, when my total lack of interest in helping with IT issues kicks in.
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to add to that i have about 30 students in a librarianship for teachers course [insert scorn and derision here] running around with various degrees of competency generally refusing to read things (library policies, hours of operation, where books are located, etc).
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and for anyone wondering why joyous posts about rowing have been absent, it's because late last year i injured my left achilles tendon (acute achilles tendonopathy), and thus rowing is out of the picture. I've been off to physiotherapy for a few weeks now, but if anything, the pain is increasing and I have doubts about the effectiveness of it all.
and thus my erg, the lovely concept 2, sits in my room and just looks pretty. it's very sad.
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Occasionally I have students or potential students who come to the refdesk that seem to think that this is the place where they apply to the school, fill out forms, etc. I answer a certain degree of those questions if they apply to my baliwick or are phrased well, but most of the time it's a redirection to the appropriate office.
Part of the problem is that if you just enter the lobby of my building, there's very little in the way of direction to places like Student Services, or the Registrar's Office; ergo people walk into the library to look for help.
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1) The smell of fear is that of crab salad.
2) Jesus could walk on custard.
Ah, librarianship - the learning never ends.
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To clarify for myself (mostly), the issue is this: I can bugger off to Oz as a librarian (or at least with that as the selling point) within a year (+/- X depending on bureaucracy, where X = unknown time). If I want to change careers in any significant way, i.e becoming a teacher or a welder, etc., then the Oz experience is delayed anywhere from 2 to 5 years - time to get new qualifications, plus 3 years or so experience.
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So it has been an idea for some time to look at working in Australia for a couple of years - if only for the warm weather and change of pace. I've been eyeballing the visa requirements and the skills that are in demand, and thus considering career change much sooner rather than later.
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So as I've not had a question on the desk for nearly 50 minutes (a rarity), I figured I'd chime in for my own benefit regarding casual vs hardcore raiding. All the non LIS/WotLK types can ignore this post, and frankly even the gamers/library loonies can as well.
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Dear AM,
I've heard recently that student application numbers have been down, and you're in a bit of a fuss about that because your whole academic plan is predicated on ever-rising enrollment. I also know that every full-time equivalent student you admit is worth about 12k of the budget, so a shortfall in enrollment has a pretty serious impact on both ambitions and maintenance.
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it may be a comment on the predictability of my existence, but where did Wednesday go? I keep losing track of days.
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So I've been at the new school for a few months now doing reference every day, teaching the occasional research class, and only recently recovering enough professionalism to get back into regular cataloguing. In that time I've made a couple of connections with students who've come to the desk, either with really challenging questions (and a requisite degree of humility), or who are feeling overwhelmed with grad school (the volume of reading, papers, etc).
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I'm wondering what the general opinion on the state of the Faculty of Information Studies is these days. I've heard that the disconnect between the school and the profession grows ever larger (OLA roundtable members complaining that new grads don't have skills, only theory); that the children's aspect of the LIS program is just about dead (and that students wanting courses in this aspect have been forced to justify why to the faculty); and lastly that the new curriculum will kill any actual cataloguing skills (though gossip also says that the current prof is doing that pretty well without help).
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So I was happily mucking about getting coins of the Ancestors last night when a guildie, Warpedmama, came on and asked if I could help her with the Elders of the Dungeons achievement.
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And for those of you who don't understand that phrase, please go forth and get yourself a 10-day free trial.
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and at 10:02 am, it's deserted. 7 hours to go...
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my usual endless font of patience with the terminally stupid hath run dry, and i'm having trouble maintaining the game face one so badly needs for dealing with the sort of people i wouldn't trust to sit properly on the toilet.
maybe i should stop being a librarian.
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