a bigger post will follow later this week (once i catch up on sleep and the job-that-pays-the-bills) but as of this morning, i am finished my master’s degree.
i’m a bit stunned that it’s suddenly over. leaving my job in vancouver to finish my undergrad so that i could go to library school – that all [...]

pecha kucha (pronounced “hootchie kootchie” by those of us who were tired of sounding like idiots) is a rockin’ great way to present at a conferences.
here’s the dirt: you get 20 seconds to talk about your slides, and 20 slides for your presentation. the slides advance automatically (well they’re supposed to – aaron was taking [...]

so i’ve been working on a project for class which requires me to make a mini machinima (machine + cinema – think SL movie). since i tend to spend most of my life on a Mac (i have an Intel iMac though, and for work i occasionally need to run programs using the “evil side” [...]

photo credit: jambina
think my prof will believe that my assignment is late because my cat is impeding my highlighting capabilities?
ya, me neither.
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for those of you unaware of who Stephen Abram is, he’s the president of the Special Libraries Assocation and has an oh-so-fun blog (Stephen’s Lighthouse).
(as an aside, i attended the SLA conference in baltimore just prior to beginning my MLIS and it confirmed my decision to go into the LIS field. i still have all [...]

thanks to some great folks i’ve met in the twittersphere, i’ve been able to check out what other soon-to-be MLISed people are doing CV-wise. both, like me, are looking at working in academia, and also like me, are technologically-inclined (though i really know very little next to them – i like what Meredith calls [...]

yesterday i tweeted that i was not going to join any more associations unless they furthered my career, were fun, or were for a cause that i believed in.
in response Wayne (one of my Twitter friends) promptly invited me to join the Librarian Glee Club for the Homeless.
he even designed a tshirt for me.

thanks [...]

fifth recalled book in three weeks.
i am never gonna finish my research project if peeps keep recalling my books! (think i’ll get any sympathy from my supervisor…?)
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Jessamyn West was at McGill for two, count’em!, TWO days speaking to students and professionals at a workshop i had a hand in coordinating.
not only is she a rockin’ fun person who inspires spontaneous limbo competitions (think i’m kidding?) but her talk, especially to us library students, made us feel all warm n’fuzzy about our [...]

i love twitter. i love it because i get updates on all the fun things fellow LISers and tech-types are up to. over the past few weeks, a number of these folk have been “tweeting” about professional development and online life.
Karin over at nirak.net (subscribe to the RSS feed NOW!) had a killer post about [...]