With the practicum winding I’m trying to finish up loose ends and still enjoy my time at the same. However Tuesday I found myself out of commission with a day of sickness. Thursday I was much better. Another round of reference desk hours, the weather was a bit gray that morning so we didn’t see … Continue reading »
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Cloth Bound Book Repair: Spine Attaching
Now return to our for our last lesson in book repair. I hope you’ve had fun learning these last three days…no? Oh well =P to you! At any point today we’re going to attach the “new and improve” spine back to our desecrated book. First let’s grab a book. This book was fixed two days … Continue reading »
Cloth Bound Book Repair: Spine Removal part 2
Time for part 2 of my adventures in book repair. If you haven’t read part one go do so now then come back. If you have then this image should look familiar to you. Yes? Great. Last time we left off we had just attacked a slip of bristol paper with PVA glue. Now place … Continue reading »
Cloth Bound Book Repair: Spine Removal
As promised here’s the photos and process break down from my time in Preservation. This is just a section of all the books waiting to have their spines fixed. On most modern books the spine is the first thing to give out after years of usage. The newer textbook like books with paper covers and … Continue reading »
Thoughts on Instruction
With the end of my practicum coming to an end and teaching my last class I thought I would write down my thoughts about instruction. When I first sat down with the Assistant Director of ZSR Reference dept. we talked about me teaching a class or two. I was both interested and intimidated at the … Continue reading »
My Time in Special Collections
I realized that I never spoke about my time in Special Collections. If you’ve read my blog doing the early months then you probably know that I entered grad school believing I wanted to work in Archives or Special Collections. It soon morphed to me not really knowing where I wanted to fit it and … Continue reading »
Practicum Week: Day 21 and 22
Tuesday Again I started the day on the reference desk. I had one scheduled Personal Research Session which I thought would be an easy session. But I’ve learned one of the golden rules of Reference librarianism…nothing is as simple as you think. When the student asked for the session she gave us one topic. Which … Continue reading »
Practicum Week: Day 19 and Day 20
Tuesday Tuesday started with time on the reference desk. Which gave me some much-needed time to finish up some last-minute details and conduct another Personal Research Meeting with a student. This time the topic was political science and dealing with tax havens. I’ve only taken one course in political science and that was a 101 … Continue reading »
One Month and Counting
As of today there is but one month left before I can switch the words MLIS candidate to just plain MLIS (I’ll have to wait about a month before I can hold the actual degree in my hand). I’m a mix between being excited, nervous, and a little sadden at the same time. Another chapter … Continue reading »
Practicum Week: Day 17 and 18
Graduation is almost one month away and everything is starting to blur together. I think I’m going to slammed with writing papers. So blog posting might become even more scarce around here. I will however get the post up about how the conference went last week. Just got to find the time. It turned out … Continue reading »
