I have always wanted to keep track of all the pseudynoms she wrote under, but didn't know how I could keep track of them. SO, I am sticking them here.
Victoria Holt, 32 novels, romantic suspense
Philippa Carr, 19 novels, family saga
Jean Plaidy, 90+ novels, historical fiction (this does include a few non-fiction history books.)
Some lesser known pseudo's:
Elbur Ford - a corruption of her maiden name, Eleanor Bluford.
Kathleen Kellow
Ellalice Tate
Thursday, October 18, 2007
secret of being organized:
"The secret of being organized under any circumstances and in any situation is taking charge of your organizational styles rather than letting them take charge of you."
-Wish I had noted where I got that, but I didn't. It's not original with me. Someone else said it.
-Wish I had noted where I got that, but I didn't. It's not original with me. Someone else said it.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
embedded teaching
Well Monday was the last day of my embedded teaching for this semester. I think it went well in a way for my first time - as far as the pedagogy part went. The first class the students had an assignment to do and turn in. That seemed to go well. I am disappointed that some students didn't put forth much effort on such an easy assignment. I guess it was considered unimportant. hmph. How would they get a book if they don't know how to use the OPAC!
I'll admit that databases are a little more difficult to understand. Maybe I should just go straight to teaching the students how to use the databases and not bother with explaining the way they work. For that class I gave them a quiz. Without a couple of bonus questions, the majority of the class flunked the quiz. I required them to take notes and would specifically point out things they needed to take note of. I was disappointed to see such poor results on the quiz. So we'll see. I did ask the English teacher to also do an assessment of my teaching - since I am new at doing this and have not had formal training on how to teach! So we'll see. This year was definitely a guinea-pig experience.
I'll admit that databases are a little more difficult to understand. Maybe I should just go straight to teaching the students how to use the databases and not bother with explaining the way they work. For that class I gave them a quiz. Without a couple of bonus questions, the majority of the class flunked the quiz. I required them to take notes and would specifically point out things they needed to take note of. I was disappointed to see such poor results on the quiz. So we'll see. I did ask the English teacher to also do an assessment of my teaching - since I am new at doing this and have not had formal training on how to teach! So we'll see. This year was definitely a guinea-pig experience.
Monday, October 08, 2007
Celebrating 75 years!
Calvary Bible College and Theological Seminary celebrates 75th anniversary.
Last week we celebrated 75 years of training and educating young people for ministerial service. Special highlights were the chapel services and a workshop with Don Wyrtzen, President’s Dinner with Gracia Burnham as speaker, and special guest, Don Wyrtzen as he accompanied the choir singing his music (on Thursday) and a concert by Don Wyrtzen on Friday night.
Mr. Wyrtzen has a good grasp of a biblical approach to music: Beauty and Love (of God) based on Truth. What has happened in the past is that the evangelical, fundamental churches were so concerned about truth and about being right that love and beauty were ignored. The liberal churches took up the championing of beauty and love and would ignore truth. You need all of these to be the most effective in using music to worship and glorify God.
He also explained the importance of involving the whole person in music – a holistic approach, but don’t let the word holistic scare you. Music needs to involve mind, body and soul. He illustrated how playing the piano does just that.
The eye gate reads and interprets the dots and lines, & sends a message to the brain. The brain then tells the hands what to play, (feet what to pedal). The ear hears what the hands are playing. The entire body and mind are involved. This in turns ministers to the soul as you hear the music played: mind, body and soul.
I Samuel 16:23 demonstrates this thesis. “…when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took a harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.”
1. David took the harp and played with his hand – mind and body
2. Saul was refreshed and was well – mind and soul
When asked what he thought the future held for Christian music, he stated that the piano is not going away, (as some have thought,) as the keyboard is the basis of all other music and instruments. He also mentioned that, with a global society, we will see more Asian and Hispanic influences in future Christian music. It will not be limited, in essence, to the white American style of music. Music will become more global. Already the Praise and Worship style of music has swept the world. He shared an experience of being in the Philippines when the electricity went out. In the dark, he started playing Praise and Worship music and the local people immediately recognized the music and joined in with singing.
All in all, it was a good time of celebrating the years God has given us here. It was refreshing to hear the ministry of others and of God’s word. These insights gave me something new to chew on. Maybe they will you, too.
Last week we celebrated 75 years of training and educating young people for ministerial service. Special highlights were the chapel services and a workshop with Don Wyrtzen, President’s Dinner with Gracia Burnham as speaker, and special guest, Don Wyrtzen as he accompanied the choir singing his music (on Thursday) and a concert by Don Wyrtzen on Friday night.
Mr. Wyrtzen has a good grasp of a biblical approach to music: Beauty and Love (of God) based on Truth. What has happened in the past is that the evangelical, fundamental churches were so concerned about truth and about being right that love and beauty were ignored. The liberal churches took up the championing of beauty and love and would ignore truth. You need all of these to be the most effective in using music to worship and glorify God.
He also explained the importance of involving the whole person in music – a holistic approach, but don’t let the word holistic scare you. Music needs to involve mind, body and soul. He illustrated how playing the piano does just that.
The eye gate reads and interprets the dots and lines, & sends a message to the brain. The brain then tells the hands what to play, (feet what to pedal). The ear hears what the hands are playing. The entire body and mind are involved. This in turns ministers to the soul as you hear the music played: mind, body and soul.
I Samuel 16:23 demonstrates this thesis. “…when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took a harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.”
1. David took the harp and played with his hand – mind and body
2. Saul was refreshed and was well – mind and soul
When asked what he thought the future held for Christian music, he stated that the piano is not going away, (as some have thought,) as the keyboard is the basis of all other music and instruments. He also mentioned that, with a global society, we will see more Asian and Hispanic influences in future Christian music. It will not be limited, in essence, to the white American style of music. Music will become more global. Already the Praise and Worship style of music has swept the world. He shared an experience of being in the Philippines when the electricity went out. In the dark, he started playing Praise and Worship music and the local people immediately recognized the music and joined in with singing.
All in all, it was a good time of celebrating the years God has given us here. It was refreshing to hear the ministry of others and of God’s word. These insights gave me something new to chew on. Maybe they will you, too.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Information Literacy and Library Orientation
Today was Library Orientation and we did something different today. In the past the group was divided in half as well as the time. Each group was led by a staff member. One gave a tour and the other (usually the librarian) gave lessons on using the online catalog and the online databases. Then they switched groups (halves).
We are now doing ‘embedded teaching’ in the English class to teach how to use the catalog and databases. So today we had the obligatory tour, a short explanation of the call number configuration; 15 minutes to read the handbook and review special points. We ended with a game they really enjoyed.
The group was divided into four teams. Each team was given a list of various areas in the library with a color to look for. Each team had to go down their list and find a colored sheet of paper that was their color. (Blue team looked for blue paper.) After all their sheets were found they came to the front desk, picked up their quiz and left.
It was a full, packed class hour but they seemed to enjoy the game. Oh yes, one other thing – they had to hold on to each other’s wrist (or sleeve if they objected!) and had 2 ½ minutes to complete it. They seemed to really have fun with this. One student questioned “holding wrists.” I told them that holding hands was against the rules, not wrists, ;-). They wanted to know what to do. I told them “enjoy it!” They got a kick out of that. Interestingly enough a few of these college students felt squeamish about holding someone else’s wrist! I didn’t think anyone at this age would object to that!!! But allowances were made! The goal was accomplished. That was the point. And it was fun.
We are now doing ‘embedded teaching’ in the English class to teach how to use the catalog and databases. So today we had the obligatory tour, a short explanation of the call number configuration; 15 minutes to read the handbook and review special points. We ended with a game they really enjoyed.
The group was divided into four teams. Each team was given a list of various areas in the library with a color to look for. Each team had to go down their list and find a colored sheet of paper that was their color. (Blue team looked for blue paper.) After all their sheets were found they came to the front desk, picked up their quiz and left.
It was a full, packed class hour but they seemed to enjoy the game. Oh yes, one other thing – they had to hold on to each other’s wrist (or sleeve if they objected!) and had 2 ½ minutes to complete it. They seemed to really have fun with this. One student questioned “holding wrists.” I told them that holding hands was against the rules, not wrists, ;-). They wanted to know what to do. I told them “enjoy it!” They got a kick out of that. Interestingly enough a few of these college students felt squeamish about holding someone else’s wrist! I didn’t think anyone at this age would object to that!!! But allowances were made! The goal was accomplished. That was the point. And it was fun.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Embedded teaching
Today I taught the second section of the English class about our online catalog. I really enjoyed it. I hope the students weren't totally bored. Although I did try to involve them as much as possible and as much as I know how - given I really have had no teacher training, well not for this setting anyhow. This is a lot different than teaching children in Sunday School! I like the idea of having the class in two sections. The only problem is the first section probably doesn't get the level of quality the second section does. The first ones are the guinea pigs. The second group gets the improved edition! Next time around we will be learning about databases - but that is next month.
For now, I'll go back to my ordering supplies, training new help, going to or holding meetings, watching the budget, answering questions, overseeing acquisitions and cataloging, freshmen orientation, and getting pictures painted on the office walls - yea, you know, some of that really stressful stuff! - Like tomorrow - a birthday party at our student workers' meeting. But somebody's got to do it. I've got a couple weeks yet to worry about the next English class opportunity.
For now, I'll go back to my ordering supplies, training new help, going to or holding meetings, watching the budget, answering questions, overseeing acquisitions and cataloging, freshmen orientation, and getting pictures painted on the office walls - yea, you know, some of that really stressful stuff! - Like tomorrow - a birthday party at our student workers' meeting. But somebody's got to do it. I've got a couple weeks yet to worry about the next English class opportunity.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
New school year, New approaches, New ideas
The new school year is well under way. Where DOES the time go. Registration went the best this year since I’ve been here I think, although our numbers are down by 30 this year from last year.
“We” are trying a new approach this year to Information Literacy. Instead of trying to cram (!) it all in at library orientation, we are trying “embedded instruction” in the English class. This does miss some who elect to take their G.E. classes somewhere else, but hopefully this will catch most. I have two class hours with the class to teach them how to use the online catalog and the online databases. We’ll still have orientation but it will be more “shallow” shall we say concentrating more on the library handbook and the tour.
Here are some websites I found on Information Literacy:
Information Literacy Curriculum
Colorado Standards for Information Literacy
Library Media Learning Outcomes
More sites can be found in this list: Resources for School Librarians
Here’s one in library instruction outcomes from FIU.
Here’s a blog by an Information Literacy Librarian.
Another idea we are pursuing is meeting with the faculty one on one for their book ideas, requests, favorite authors, and what they need for the classes they teach. I have met with four so far. Then I go researching what they want and report back to them what we have and what I have found that we can get if they are interested. Obviously this will take more of my time but I really think that this will improve communication and support between the library and the teaching faculty.
“We” are trying a new approach this year to Information Literacy. Instead of trying to cram (!) it all in at library orientation, we are trying “embedded instruction” in the English class. This does miss some who elect to take their G.E. classes somewhere else, but hopefully this will catch most. I have two class hours with the class to teach them how to use the online catalog and the online databases. We’ll still have orientation but it will be more “shallow” shall we say concentrating more on the library handbook and the tour.
Here are some websites I found on Information Literacy:
Information Literacy Curriculum
Colorado Standards for Information Literacy
Library Media Learning Outcomes
More sites can be found in this list: Resources for School Librarians
Here’s one in library instruction outcomes from FIU.
Here’s a blog by an Information Literacy Librarian.
Another idea we are pursuing is meeting with the faculty one on one for their book ideas, requests, favorite authors, and what they need for the classes they teach. I have met with four so far. Then I go researching what they want and report back to them what we have and what I have found that we can get if they are interested. Obviously this will take more of my time but I really think that this will improve communication and support between the library and the teaching faculty.
Monday, August 20, 2007
An ALA phone poll
...of one thousand people revealed that:
• 91% believe libraries are changing and dynamic places with a variety of activities for the whole family.
• 90% believe libraries are places of opportunity for education, self-help and offer free access for all.
• 88% agreed that libraries are unique because they offer access to nearly everything on the Web or in print, as well as personal service and assistance in finding it.
• 83% believe libraries and librarians play an essential role in our democracy and are needed now more than ever.
Emery-Pratt Newsletter, Issue 4, 2007
• 91% believe libraries are changing and dynamic places with a variety of activities for the whole family.
• 90% believe libraries are places of opportunity for education, self-help and offer free access for all.
• 88% agreed that libraries are unique because they offer access to nearly everything on the Web or in print, as well as personal service and assistance in finding it.
• 83% believe libraries and librarians play an essential role in our democracy and are needed now more than ever.
Emery-Pratt Newsletter, Issue 4, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
Harry Potter strikes again.
The newest and apparently last book of the Harry Potter series is now in the hands of thirsty readers.
I hesitate to get into the foray about the discussion. But here are some links that were passed around on one of my listservs. The first one you may not be able to get into, but I put it here anyway in case you can.
1. Looking for God in Harry Potter, John Granger
2. Critique of Granger’s book.
3. Here is an apologeticist’s point of view regarding the Potter phenomenon. It is written in two parts by James White. You’ll need to go to the Archives and find July 21, 2007. You'll have to scroll down a bit to find them. Harry Potter meets Cornelius Van Til
4. Now this is a different point of view: Straight talk on Harry Potter
5. The Lantern also weighs in on the conversation.
If you wish to find more go to your favorite search engine and type in Harry Potter, book reviews, christian, anti-christian and you will get numerous more articles to raise points for you to consider. I pulled up 632 listings with all the above words. Bon appetit!
I hesitate to get into the foray about the discussion. But here are some links that were passed around on one of my listservs. The first one you may not be able to get into, but I put it here anyway in case you can.
1. Looking for God in Harry Potter, John Granger
2. Critique of Granger’s book.
3. Here is an apologeticist’s point of view regarding the Potter phenomenon. It is written in two parts by James White. You’ll need to go to the Archives and find July 21, 2007. You'll have to scroll down a bit to find them. Harry Potter meets Cornelius Van Til
4. Now this is a different point of view: Straight talk on Harry Potter
5. The Lantern also weighs in on the conversation.
If you wish to find more go to your favorite search engine and type in Harry Potter, book reviews, christian, anti-christian and you will get numerous more articles to raise points for you to consider. I pulled up 632 listings with all the above words. Bon appetit!
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Progress
One day a week (Tuesday) we take off from regular work and have a 'workday' on campus. We have used that in the library this summer to get our Bound Periodicals moved to a new room. We finished moving all the periodicals today and have now started taking down the shelves and moving them to the storeage room for other use (Book sale and cataloging of donations). It is exciting to see some actual progress.
When we get the old periodical area emptied we have plans of putting up partitions for some much needed office space for the library director and for staff. It will be an exciting day when that happens. To date, the library director is the only department head on campus that does not have a private and much needed office. Our current office will be turned over to the student workers for book processing and book repair. Woo Hoo!!!!
Oh yes - I'm back from vacation. I returned to work Monday (yesturday) for a much needed rest. :-) Not sure I got one today, though with all the moving we did.
When we get the old periodical area emptied we have plans of putting up partitions for some much needed office space for the library director and for staff. It will be an exciting day when that happens. To date, the library director is the only department head on campus that does not have a private and much needed office. Our current office will be turned over to the student workers for book processing and book repair. Woo Hoo!!!!
Oh yes - I'm back from vacation. I returned to work Monday (yesturday) for a much needed rest. :-) Not sure I got one today, though with all the moving we did.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Happy Fourth
Happy Independence Day to all
I will be going on vacation starting tomorrow and will be gone for a week and a half. So there's not apt to be anything posted till I get back. I'm going to Arkansas to help do crafts at camp for Junior age kids.
I will be going on vacation starting tomorrow and will be gone for a week and a half. So there's not apt to be anything posted till I get back. I'm going to Arkansas to help do crafts at camp for Junior age kids.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Acquisitions and Budgets
For the first time in the 6+ years that I have been here, I feel like I have finally been able to achieve what I have always wanted to do in dividing the budget. This institution has struggled financially in the past quite severely. When I first came I only spent 1/6 of the amount that I spent this year. So we have improved significantly.
About 4 years ago we were working on accreditation. The acquisitions budget was divided (into percentages) by the Accreditation Steering subcommittee. I am on that committee so I did have some input. With 4 years behind us I have been able to catch up in areas that we were lacking. Yet there is always the drive for balance. I did not feel we really had acheived that balance.
I have now written up a proposal, and received approval from two key faculty members to adjust those percentages. This will now go to the appropriate Accreditation Steering subcommittee. Furthermore, I have divided each of three major areas into "areas of study" so that within these three areas, each professor gets the same amount of money spent on them as the others.
Balance can be looked at in several ways. In General Education vs theology we have improved. Where we are still unbalanced is within these categories. Some Gen Ed professors did very well in submitting requests. So we are now heavy in two areas of Gen Ed, but still lacking in others. The same can be said for Bible and Theology.
I'm sure we all have similar difficulties. Some faculty members are very dutiful in giving you requests/lists of books to order. Others do not. This year I am going to meet with each faculty member and do the looking for them. This should help with the disparity of requests.
When it came to deciding how to subdivide the major sections of the budget, I was in quandry for some time how to do this. Do I divide it by number of majors we offer? Do I divide it by number of professors? Do I divide it by ratio of students to a class/subject? What to do, what to do.
I finally came up with looking at "areas of study." This was an easier handle. We are a small school so we don't have full fledge deparments in some cases. Those are called "programs" with program directors. Others are big enough (with more than one professor) to be called departments. Most of our teachers are full time, but some are part time. But they all teach classes that are necessary. So how do I divide and be equitable to all.
In these areas of study I have mixed in the faculty with them. Most cases have one, maybe two professors to each area. This is particularly true in our General Education "section." I came up with 12 "areas of study" for Gen Ed. They get about a third of the budget. So that is divided by 12 and I now know how much will be spent for each of those "areas of study" for Gen Ed.
Within Professional Education/College (PEC) there are 3 major areas. These are subdivided into a total of 14 "areas of study" with the appropriate faculty assigned to each. I gave them all equal weight, however two areas have two faculty assigned to one area. (They get one "bite" so to speak.) PEC also gets about 1/3 of the acquisitions budget. Their third is divided by 14.
Professional Education/Seminary (PES) has 4 faculty and areas of study. They, too, get about 1/3 of the pie. Divided by 4 they do get bigger individual servings. But given that Seminary resources are so lacking, and given that most of their resources are also usable by the upperclassmen of college, this is still worth the pieces being divided this way.
We do have 10% of our budget that is devoted to reference and non-curriculum subjects. Once that 10% is taken off the top the rest is more easily divided into the thirds mentioned above, (give or take 5%).
Even though we are required to purchase one copy of all textbooks, they can still be assigned to each of the three areas mentioned. Overall, this plan will give us a much better sense of what we are purchasing for what area and not be heavy in one area and lean-to-nothing in another. This gives me great relief. Time will tell this time next year if this worked like I am hoping it will.
About 4 years ago we were working on accreditation. The acquisitions budget was divided (into percentages) by the Accreditation Steering subcommittee. I am on that committee so I did have some input. With 4 years behind us I have been able to catch up in areas that we were lacking. Yet there is always the drive for balance. I did not feel we really had acheived that balance.
I have now written up a proposal, and received approval from two key faculty members to adjust those percentages. This will now go to the appropriate Accreditation Steering subcommittee. Furthermore, I have divided each of three major areas into "areas of study" so that within these three areas, each professor gets the same amount of money spent on them as the others.
Balance can be looked at in several ways. In General Education vs theology we have improved. Where we are still unbalanced is within these categories. Some Gen Ed professors did very well in submitting requests. So we are now heavy in two areas of Gen Ed, but still lacking in others. The same can be said for Bible and Theology.
I'm sure we all have similar difficulties. Some faculty members are very dutiful in giving you requests/lists of books to order. Others do not. This year I am going to meet with each faculty member and do the looking for them. This should help with the disparity of requests.
When it came to deciding how to subdivide the major sections of the budget, I was in quandry for some time how to do this. Do I divide it by number of majors we offer? Do I divide it by number of professors? Do I divide it by ratio of students to a class/subject? What to do, what to do.
I finally came up with looking at "areas of study." This was an easier handle. We are a small school so we don't have full fledge deparments in some cases. Those are called "programs" with program directors. Others are big enough (with more than one professor) to be called departments. Most of our teachers are full time, but some are part time. But they all teach classes that are necessary. So how do I divide and be equitable to all.
In these areas of study I have mixed in the faculty with them. Most cases have one, maybe two professors to each area. This is particularly true in our General Education "section." I came up with 12 "areas of study" for Gen Ed. They get about a third of the budget. So that is divided by 12 and I now know how much will be spent for each of those "areas of study" for Gen Ed.
Within Professional Education/College (PEC) there are 3 major areas. These are subdivided into a total of 14 "areas of study" with the appropriate faculty assigned to each. I gave them all equal weight, however two areas have two faculty assigned to one area. (They get one "bite" so to speak.) PEC also gets about 1/3 of the acquisitions budget. Their third is divided by 14.
Professional Education/Seminary (PES) has 4 faculty and areas of study. They, too, get about 1/3 of the pie. Divided by 4 they do get bigger individual servings. But given that Seminary resources are so lacking, and given that most of their resources are also usable by the upperclassmen of college, this is still worth the pieces being divided this way.
We do have 10% of our budget that is devoted to reference and non-curriculum subjects. Once that 10% is taken off the top the rest is more easily divided into the thirds mentioned above, (give or take 5%).
Even though we are required to purchase one copy of all textbooks, they can still be assigned to each of the three areas mentioned. Overall, this plan will give us a much better sense of what we are purchasing for what area and not be heavy in one area and lean-to-nothing in another. This gives me great relief. Time will tell this time next year if this worked like I am hoping it will.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Library Surveys
This spring’s surveys in some ways told us nothing new – mostly satisfied with resources, staffing and services. There are always those who complain about it being too loud or too quiet, or never any new books, even though they walk by a New Books display every time they come into the library. But this year, about half noted that the New Books display was found helpful. I think it is becoming slightly more noticed. But you do wonder if some even realize the new books that you do buy. We send the faculty a list of new books every month. Maybe we should send this to students as well. Another thought I have is posting it on the library’s webpage each month – anything to raise awareness.
It turns out that the Textbook display is a big hit, even though we weren’t able to get all of them. Hopefully we will be able to add to it, this fall. This is very helpful to those who haven’t gotten theirs in yet or don’t have the money to buy them. Money is always tight, no matter what decade you live in I have discovered.
Surprising was how many actual do pay attention to our Special Books display on a 4-tier cart; and to the bulletin board. The fact that anybody notices them is thrilling for me.
We had 2-3 students this year that were challenging in following the no-talking rules this year. Correspondingly we had 2-3 surveys that complained about the no-talking rules. (Hmmmm!) I have noticed this is almost always freshmen. We will see if they return this fall and if they continue the same point of view. But someone else will take their place.
We have a huge disparity of those not using the services of requesting books from other libraries in our consortium. It looks like that will be our focus this next year. Besides the regular one-shot orientation, we are going to try “embedded instruction” to also help students to connect the need to knowing how to use the library in a timely manner with actually using it to their best advantage in fulfilling their assignments.
It turns out that the Textbook display is a big hit, even though we weren’t able to get all of them. Hopefully we will be able to add to it, this fall. This is very helpful to those who haven’t gotten theirs in yet or don’t have the money to buy them. Money is always tight, no matter what decade you live in I have discovered.
Surprising was how many actual do pay attention to our Special Books display on a 4-tier cart; and to the bulletin board. The fact that anybody notices them is thrilling for me.
We had 2-3 students this year that were challenging in following the no-talking rules this year. Correspondingly we had 2-3 surveys that complained about the no-talking rules. (Hmmmm!) I have noticed this is almost always freshmen. We will see if they return this fall and if they continue the same point of view. But someone else will take their place.
We have a huge disparity of those not using the services of requesting books from other libraries in our consortium. It looks like that will be our focus this next year. Besides the regular one-shot orientation, we are going to try “embedded instruction” to also help students to connect the need to knowing how to use the library in a timely manner with actually using it to their best advantage in fulfilling their assignments.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
ACL 2007-Signs of a good conference:
Finding others in similar situations as yours
Aching feet and bleary eyes on the first night
Handouts you read again when you get home
Social engagements scheduled for afterwards
Not enough exercise and too tired to get any
Keeping in touch with your roommate
Answers to nagging questions
New ideas swapped over lunch
Getting your pick of door prizes
New books purchased or ordered
Positive feedback from your workshop
Someone remembered you from last year
Using suggestions from a fellow colleague
168 pictures uploaded to an online photo service
Being glad to be back in your own comfortable bed
(Figure out what the outline of this list looks like)
Renewing friendships face to face
Changing methods you held dear
Getting to visit new places
Discovery of new resources
New thoughts shared in workshops
Making plans now for next year
Hint*
Left home
Good turnout
Missed friends
New inside jokes
List of new emails
Gaining four pounds
Winning a door prize
Freebies you will use
High rating on surveys
Professional networking
Finding a fellow hobbyist
Following up on contacts
New board game learned
Smooth-running schedule
Pages and pages of notes
Pile of new business cards
*(squint your eyes)
I would have suggested you cut and paste this into a word processor. But when I did this the length of lines changed in the bottom part. You can try it and see if it helps you or not. Be sure and reduce the image to about 25%. That gives you the best overall view of what the list looks like. Have Fun!
Aching feet and bleary eyes on the first night
Handouts you read again when you get home
Social engagements scheduled for afterwards
Not enough exercise and too tired to get any
Keeping in touch with your roommate
Answers to nagging questions
New ideas swapped over lunch
Getting your pick of door prizes
New books purchased or ordered
Positive feedback from your workshop
Someone remembered you from last year
Using suggestions from a fellow colleague
168 pictures uploaded to an online photo service
Being glad to be back in your own comfortable bed
(Figure out what the outline of this list looks like)
Renewing friendships face to face
Changing methods you held dear
Getting to visit new places
Discovery of new resources
New thoughts shared in workshops
Making plans now for next year
Hint*
Left home
Good turnout
Missed friends
New inside jokes
List of new emails
Gaining four pounds
Winning a door prize
Freebies you will use
High rating on surveys
Professional networking
Finding a fellow hobbyist
Following up on contacts
New board game learned
Smooth-running schedule
Pages and pages of notes
Pile of new business cards
*(squint your eyes)
I would have suggested you cut and paste this into a word processor. But when I did this the length of lines changed in the bottom part. You can try it and see if it helps you or not. Be sure and reduce the image to about 25%. That gives you the best overall view of what the list looks like. Have Fun!
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Traits of Catalogers...
-compiled from a recent listserv (UNscientific survey)
(Love of) team sports
Card games
Forest ranger/lumber jack
Create order out of chaos
Diagram sentences
Puzzle solver (all kinds) (in ink)
Large personal library
Service oriented
Dog lover
Orderly desk
Interest in preservation
Law enforcement officer
Word games
Sort M&M’s by color (or Skittles)
Sort out mixed nuts
Create own mazes or puzzles
Cat lover
Eat food in certain order
Messy desks
Separate food, so it doesn’t touch
Rule-based games (not strategy)
Paper arts
Needle work (e.g. counted cross stitch)
Beading? – No, just bead sorting!
Read encyclopedia, dictionaries and atlases for fun
List maker
Familiar with a foreign language
Learning about something new every day
Alter sewing patterns
Buy less fabric then required for above patterns
Creative
Visual
Oh yeah, and a love for books
PS: someone once said - When Hinkley tried to assassinate President Reagan, a news broadcaster interviewed a psychiatrist who described Hinkley as having a mental disorder that was "common to" librarians and forest rangers. Honest.
Original source unknown: They can test for that now (the above mentioned disorder). During a tour of a local mental hospital that acted as a library, a visitor asked what the criteria were which defined whether an applicant should be institutionalized and which duties they should be assigned.
"Well", said the tour-guide, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a fork, a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to each applicant and ask that they empty the bathtub."
"Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would ignore the fork and use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup."
"No," said the tour-guide, "a normal person would pull the plug and get out of here."
"As for qualified applicants, patrons demand everything in a bucket, reference librarians want to serve in a cup, catalogers would analyze every spoonful, and administrators are puzzled as to why so much falls through the tines."
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I am off again next week as I will be attending the ACL annual conference, this year in Grand Rapids, MI then spending the weekend at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN (a genealogist's dream).
(Love of) team sports
Card games
Forest ranger/lumber jack
Create order out of chaos
Diagram sentences
Puzzle solver (all kinds) (in ink)
Large personal library
Service oriented
Dog lover
Orderly desk
Interest in preservation
Law enforcement officer
Word games
Sort M&M’s by color (or Skittles)
Sort out mixed nuts
Create own mazes or puzzles
Cat lover
Eat food in certain order
Messy desks
Separate food, so it doesn’t touch
Rule-based games (not strategy)
Paper arts
Needle work (e.g. counted cross stitch)
Beading? – No, just bead sorting!
Read encyclopedia, dictionaries and atlases for fun
List maker
Familiar with a foreign language
Learning about something new every day
Alter sewing patterns
Buy less fabric then required for above patterns
Creative
Visual
Oh yeah, and a love for books
PS: someone once said - When Hinkley tried to assassinate President Reagan, a news broadcaster interviewed a psychiatrist who described Hinkley as having a mental disorder that was "common to" librarians and forest rangers. Honest.
Original source unknown: They can test for that now (the above mentioned disorder). During a tour of a local mental hospital that acted as a library, a visitor asked what the criteria were which defined whether an applicant should be institutionalized and which duties they should be assigned.
"Well", said the tour-guide, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a fork, a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to each applicant and ask that they empty the bathtub."
"Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would ignore the fork and use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup."
"No," said the tour-guide, "a normal person would pull the plug and get out of here."
"As for qualified applicants, patrons demand everything in a bucket, reference librarians want to serve in a cup, catalogers would analyze every spoonful, and administrators are puzzled as to why so much falls through the tines."
************
I am off again next week as I will be attending the ACL annual conference, this year in Grand Rapids, MI then spending the weekend at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN (a genealogist's dream).
Monday, May 14, 2007
Proud of my staff
Since my last post we had graduation (Sat., 5th) and finals the next week for the rest of the students. They were all officially gone by 2 p.m. last Thursday and the army moved in at 4! - Yes, the Army.
There is an Army Reserve post down the road from us and they needed lodging for their unit getting ready to go to Iraq. So they are staying on campus for 30 days. It was an awesome task to get everything ready, but we 'got 'er done'!!!
Last Sat. (12th) my husband was in a motorcycle accident and ended up with broken ribs and a partially collapsed lung. So my staff has stepped up to the bat for me and will 'carry on.' I know they will do a fine job. They're a great bunch. Fortunately, the semester is over and I have nothing on my schedule for this week.
I may not be posting for a while, but as soon as "things and husbands" are back on their feet I will be back.
There is an Army Reserve post down the road from us and they needed lodging for their unit getting ready to go to Iraq. So they are staying on campus for 30 days. It was an awesome task to get everything ready, but we 'got 'er done'!!!
Last Sat. (12th) my husband was in a motorcycle accident and ended up with broken ribs and a partially collapsed lung. So my staff has stepped up to the bat for me and will 'carry on.' I know they will do a fine job. They're a great bunch. Fortunately, the semester is over and I have nothing on my schedule for this week.
I may not be posting for a while, but as soon as "things and husbands" are back on their feet I will be back.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Sunflower houses
I found some (4) websites that give information on how to plant a playhouse for your kids. I also finally figured out they are called Sunflower houses. I have added the info about the links in my entry below in: Last Day in April. Have a look.
Oh, and by the way (btw), I went through my postings for the last several months and saw where some of you folks have left comments that I didn't catch before. Thanks for visiting and leaving your thoughts. Please do so any time.
Oh, and by the way (btw), I went through my postings for the last several months and saw where some of you folks have left comments that I didn't catch before. Thanks for visiting and leaving your thoughts. Please do so any time.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Graduation is upon us
Second blog entry of the night, (see next entry):
History of Graduation sites found here and here and here.
This is an interesting site on traditions.
Here’s a blog that tells about regalia being based on ancient traditions.
This website talks about the school Mace and the President’s Chain of office, something we don’t do here at CBCTS.
History of Graduation sites found here and here and here.
This is an interesting site on traditions.
Here’s a blog that tells about regalia being based on ancient traditions.
This website talks about the school Mace and the President’s Chain of office, something we don’t do here at CBCTS.
Last Day of April
“We” worked in our flower bed this weekend, guess that got this writer in the mood. Saturday was a beautiful day, so I “staked out” 2 of my dogs and got all the dead weeds and grass pulled out and new bark bedding put in. It is not one of my “top loves” but it is for a lot of people. Maybe it’s too late to begin planting a flower garden or any kind of garden for that matter (you can see how much I know about gardening) but here are some websites I found that might be helpful or enjoyable. “Forward, Hoe!” (Yeah, that was an intended pun! Sorry friend. Well, no not really.)
Kids Page: “Sow what? Plant a flower or vegetable garden”
Flower Garden design – list of links. It co-incidentally lists a Kansas City website, work "home" of this writer.
Play house for children made from live plants:
Sunflowers, Sweet pea and other climbers are planted to form the walls of your play house – leave a doorway-space. Poles and strings can train the climbers so that you even have a roof over the top. You can make this as simple or as elaborate as you wish. A friend did this years ago. You could probably find plans on line, although we didn't look for any. (Additional note: found this on another website. Look for "Living Playhouse". Here is a different idea for a living playhouse. Ah-ha, I found another site when searching for 'sunflower houses'. This one actually gives you plans. Earlier I found a similar sight that mentioned adding morning glories. O.k. this site is probably the best given as far as instructions are concerned, but she still didn't mention adding the morning glories I found elsewhere.)
Flower Garden help with tools, plans, seeds, plants appropriate for you area and more.
Don’t forget Amazon.com for any book on garden you can imagine.
Here are some other options:
Raised beds here,
Container gardens here; and here;
one more from Better Homes and Gardens website;
Water garden here and here, (a “How-to” );
and vegetable garden options.
This gives Cooperative Extension Service links for every US state.
If you ever watched “Ground Force” on TV, (Miss) Charlie Dimmick has several books on water features. Alan Titchmarsh has also published books on gardening. There were over 200 hits on Amazon.com but I am not sure they are all by the same “Alan Titchmarsh.” Tommy Walsh has published about 16 books it looks like. Check out “Ground Force” with any of the above named authors in google and there should be links to Amazon. Or go directly to Amazon and look. I couldn’t pull up anything with just author’s names, but I didn’t play around with it to find books by them.
Kids Page: “Sow what? Plant a flower or vegetable garden”
Flower Garden design – list of links. It co-incidentally lists a Kansas City website, work "home" of this writer.
Play house for children made from live plants:
Sunflowers, Sweet pea and other climbers are planted to form the walls of your play house – leave a doorway-space. Poles and strings can train the climbers so that you even have a roof over the top. You can make this as simple or as elaborate as you wish. A friend did this years ago. You could probably find plans on line, although we didn't look for any. (Additional note: found this on another website. Look for "Living Playhouse". Here is a different idea for a living playhouse. Ah-ha, I found another site when searching for 'sunflower houses'. This one actually gives you plans. Earlier I found a similar sight that mentioned adding morning glories. O.k. this site is probably the best given as far as instructions are concerned, but she still didn't mention adding the morning glories I found elsewhere.)
Flower Garden help with tools, plans, seeds, plants appropriate for you area and more.
Don’t forget Amazon.com for any book on garden you can imagine.
Here are some other options:
Raised beds here,
Container gardens here; and here;
one more from Better Homes and Gardens website;
Water garden here and here, (a “How-to” );
and vegetable garden options.
This gives Cooperative Extension Service links for every US state.
If you ever watched “Ground Force” on TV, (Miss) Charlie Dimmick has several books on water features. Alan Titchmarsh has also published books on gardening. There were over 200 hits on Amazon.com but I am not sure they are all by the same “Alan Titchmarsh.” Tommy Walsh has published about 16 books it looks like. Check out “Ground Force” with any of the above named authors in google and there should be links to Amazon. Or go directly to Amazon and look. I couldn’t pull up anything with just author’s names, but I didn’t play around with it to find books by them.
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