I’m in my seventh and final semester of library school and I suddenly have a piece of advice for people who are starting library school this semester:
Buy a tablet.
Ideally, buy a 10-inch tablet. Doesn’t have to be an iPad, there are a few similarly-sized tablets out there, including a Galaxy model.
My library school experience has been what I’d roughly estimate at 90% PDFs and 10% books. Possibly fewer books.
Sometimes, during a class, I want to write about something it brought up that is in no way related to the assignments and probably not relevant in class discussion. What’s a girl who owns her own domain, used to work as a Wordpress back-end consultant, and writes her own Wordpress themes for kicks to do? Oh…right. This. [n.b. the site moved from Wordpress to Hugo in early 2020.]
Right now, I’m taking two classes: Intro to Archives (LBSC 605) and the Organization of Information (LBSC 670).
Wednesday, the 27th, is the one year anniversary of losing my mom. It’s been a rough year for our family, but we’ve made it through. I’m no longer crying regularly…so that’s an improvement, right?
Mom was only 65 when she died and had been facing terminal cancer for more than 5 years. Yet up until the last 6 months or so, when she started truly dying, she did her best to live as full a life as she could.