tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205842212024-03-14T02:40:10.626-04:00Practical KatiePractical observations about working in an academic library.practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.comBlogger240125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-60878548215852377292014-01-03T16:01:00.000-05:002014-01-03T16:01:08.067-05:00Books Read in 2013Oh no, I read 78 books in 2012 only 35 this year. I guess I stopped reading in August. Here's to a better year and to more reading.<br />
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Lost Myself, and Got My Cool Back in the New Jersey Suburbs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Friendship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2. Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce<br />
3. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland by Catherynne Valente *<br />
4. Small Acts of Amazing Courage by Gloria Whelan<br />
5. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs *<br />
6. Chance by Robert Parker<br />
7. Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos<br />
8. The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg *<br />
9. Tinkers by Paul Harding<br />
10. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green *<br />
11. Rules by Cynthia Lord<br />
12. The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict by Trenton Lee Stewart<br />
13. Jake and Lily by Jerry Spinelli<br />
14. The Herb and the Crown by Rosin McKinley<br />
15. Ella the Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine *<br />
16. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green<br />
17. Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman *<br />
18. Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston *<br />
19. The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock<br />
20. Henry Higgins by Beverly Cleary *<br />
21. A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suznne Joinson<br />
22. Prairie Evers by Ellen Airgood<br />
23. Persuader by Lee Child *<br />
24. Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis *<br />
25. You're the One That I want by Von Ziegesar<br />
26. Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman<br />
27. In One Person by John Irving *<br />
28. The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist *<br />
29. Paris in Love by Eloisa James<br />
30. Bollywood Nights by Shobhaa De<br />
31. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle *<br />
32. The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly<br />
33. The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth<br />
34. Evie and Cookie by Irmegarde Eberle *<br />
35. Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright<br />
36. Plain Girl by Virginia Sorensen *<br />
37. Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace *<br />
38. Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer<br />
39. A Dog Year by Jon Katz<br />
40. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse<br />
41. Goody Hall by Natalie Babbitt<br />
42. Lulu in Marakech by Diane Johnson<br />
43. Killy Floor by Lee Child<br />
44. The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny *<br />
45. Hundred Dollar Baby by Robert B. Parker *<br />
46. Worth Dying For by Lee Child<br />
47. The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket<br />
48. Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle<br />
49. The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare<br />
50. 61 Hours by Lee Child<br />
51. The Naked Roommate by Harlan Cohen<br />
52. The Enemy by Lee Child<br />
53. Without Fair by Lee Child<br />
54. Heartburn by Nora Ephron *<br />
55. Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos *<br />
56. An Appetite for Murder by Lucy Burdette<br />
57. Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse by George Seldon *<br />
58. Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman *<br />
59. Adopted Jane by Helen Fern Daringer<br />
60. Memoir of the Sunday Brunch by Julia Pandl<br />
61. Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden<br />
62. The Order of Odd-fish by James Kennedy<br />
63. Dogson by Gary Paulsen<br />
64. Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer *<br />
65. The Dean and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer *<br />
66. This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer<br />
67. The Wierd Sisters by Eleanor Brown<br />
68. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson<br />
69. Homesick My Own Story by Jean Fritz<br />
70. Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman *<br />
71. The Best of Friends by Joanna Trollope<br />
72. A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lahane *<br />
73. The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban<br />
74. Wonder by R. J. Palacio *<br />
75. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple *<br />
76. The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming by Lemony Snicket<br />
77. The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay *<br />
78. Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich<br />
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I read the first 50 pages. If I don't like the book after 50 pages, it's out.<br />
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* recommended<br />
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My FAVORITE books this year are <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Wonder</span> (recommendation from Oliva), <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Life As We Knew It</span> (also recommended by Oliva), <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">The Fault in our Stars</span> (after I heard John Green speak), <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">A View From Saturday</span>, and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland</span>. I also read my first Lee Child book and then read as many of them as I could get my hands on.<br />
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I heard John Irving and John Green speak at ALA. Ahhhhhh.<br />
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And I went to the 2012 Newbery/Caldecott Award Dinner and heard Jack Gantos and Chris Raschka. Double ahhhh.<br />
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2012 was a good year for reading.<br />
<br />practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-22876043816334437382012-08-25T14:17:00.000-04:002012-08-25T14:50:25.053-04:00Random Thoughts about AdvisingMet my six freshman from the class of 2016 yesterday. After a week of orientation, I'm a bit brain dead, but here are some random thoughts before I lose them.<br />
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1. Love having a freshman fellow at the group meeting. I know all kinds of things, but I still am not entirely sure about the mechanics of registering, having never done it myself. This year's fellow, Felix, was terrific. I put him on the spot over and over and he came through.<br />
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2. I'm going to say it publicly. Orientation is too long. It was only day TWO and these students were bored and complaining "there's nothing to do". They're homesick. They're anxious about taking college courses. They want to START, not hang around. IMHO.<br />
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3. They always expect that I"m going to tell them what to take at our first one on one meeting. The number of possibilities is overwhelming. I know in a few months I"ll be able to look back at these first conversations and go "ah, I should have seen it coming". Right now, I'm not sure I can predict who is going to struggle this<br />
first semester and who is going to sail through.<br />
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4. This year's surprise question? After telling one of my students that class started at 9 (or 10 or 11), their repeated question was "at night?". Classes that start at 10 at night???? Oh dear, I don't think college is going to live up to their exotic expectations....<br />
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5. And the most surprising observation came during a conversation about living with a roommate. The observation/question was "how do you take a shower?" Yikes. I can't remember. Walk down the hall in a towel? When do you take your clothes off? I'd forgotten all the little, daily anxieties that come with starting college. <br />
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One student sobbed and sobbed with homesickness and anxiety. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm qualified for this job. But at least I was someone who could listen on the first full day of college.<br />
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<br />practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-23164671329829197072012-01-01T06:57:00.002-05:002012-01-01T06:57:45.246-05:00Seventy Nine Books in 2011Here's the list of the books I read in 2011 - seventy nine! I met and surpassed my goal of reading a book a week. Of course you will see a strong leaning towards children's literature and thus, shorter books. I read the Harry Potter series in a big gulp. I only read a few non fiction books, but they were some of the best I read all year -- Packing for Mars, The No Assholes Rule and Franklin and Eleanor. I had never read Jane Eyre or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn?? Hans Brinker really isn't about Hans but is about his sister? National Velvet is very funny and the horse wins. <br />
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I don't really know how I chose these books. I read Lee Child because he was on a list of favorite authors of Bill Clinton. There were advance copies I picked up at an ALA Conference. Most of the books were sitting on my own bookshelf. Friends gave me books. Some (but not the majority) were from the library. Some were books for our children's book club at work. Have to decide what my goal is for 2012.<br />
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<li>Hitty by Rachel Field</li>
<li>Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel</li>
<li>Shit My Dad Says by Justin Halpern </li>
<li>Bless This Mouse by Lois Lowry</li>
<li>The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson</li>
<li>The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus by Sonya Sones</li>
<li>When You Were Mine by Elizabeth Noble</li>
<li>Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace</li>
<li>Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson</li>
<li>The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes</li>
<li>Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown by Maud Hart Lovelace</li>
<li>Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte</li>
<li>Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater</li>
<li>One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell</li>
<li>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum</li>
<li>Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman</li>
<li>The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman</li>
<li>Belles on Their Toes by Ernestine and Frank Gilbreth</li>
<li>Packing for Mars by Mary Roach</li>
<li>Instead of a Letter: A Memoir by Diana Hill</li>
<li>Falling Out of Fashion by Karen Yampolsky</li>
<li>Bento Box in the Heartland by Linda Furiya</li>
<li>Rat by Fernanda Eberstadt</li>
<li>Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor</li>
<li>A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym</li>
<li>Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski</li>
<li>The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton</li>
<li>City of Light by Lauren Belfer</li>
<li>Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen</li>
<li>Hans Brinker of the Silver Skates by Mary Naples Dodge</li>
<li>The River by Rumer Godden</li>
<li>Indian Captive by Lois Lenski</li>
<li>Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine</li>
<li>The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux</li>
<li>The Mango Season by Amulya Mauadi</li>
<li>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling</li>
<li>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling</li>
<li>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling</li>
<li>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling</li>
<li>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling</li>
<li>Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling</li>
<li>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling</li>
<li>Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns</li>
<li>Esio Trot by Roald Dahl</li>
<li>State of Wonder by Ann Patchett</li>
<li>Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson</li>
<li>The Tall Woman by Wilma Dykeman</li>
<li>Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich</li>
<li>Just Kids by Patti Smith</li>
<li>Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice</li>
<li>These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder</li>
<li>Bossypants by Tina Fey</li>
<li>Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich</li>
<li>Dobry by Monica Shannon</li>
<li>Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson</li>
<li>Love the One You're With by Emily Griffen</li>
<li>A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan</li>
<li>Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson</li>
<li>A Year at the Races by Jane Smiley</li>
<li>Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go by Dale Basye</li>
<li>The No Assholes Rule by Robert Sutton</li>
<li>Go Ask Alice by Anonymous</li>
<li>I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg</li>
<li>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith</li>
<li>Are you Somebody by O'Faolain</li>
<li>Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala</li>
<li>My Antonia by Willa Cather</li>
<li>Hatchet by Gary Paulsen</li>
<li>Franklin and Eleanor by Hazel Rowley</li>
<li>The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine</li>
<li>The Affair by Lee Child</li>
<li>National Velvet by Enid Bagnold</li>
<li>Wendy and the Lost Boys by Julie Salamon</li>
<li>We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood by Emily Kimbrough</li>
<li>My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara</li>
<li>Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspread</li>
<li>The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder</li>
<li>The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman</li>
<li>All-Of-A-Kind Family Downtown by Sydney Taylor</li>
</ol>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-61318401519758181092011-10-26T16:49:00.000-04:002011-10-26T16:49:03.673-04:00The Bare Essentials<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Let's start at the beginning
with toilet paper. Is it really too much to ask to have a roll of toilet
paper that actually rolls? A roll of toilet paper that doesn't force me to claw
like a hamster to pull out a thin, square of paper? These two pictures were
taken in a Wegman's (of course) restaurant. Not only was there free
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I would like to wash my hands with water. I don't want to wave my hands up and down and side to side in front of a faucet. I want water when I want water. How many times have I had to simply GIVE UP and use the little bottle of </span>Purell<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I've learned to carry with me every where for just these situations. Sigh. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And last but not least, if and when I am successful at getting water, I want to be able to dry my hands on PAPER TOWELS. I don't want to hot air blowing on my hands. Note I specifically didn't say hot air *drying* my hands, because it never does. And the automatic hand dryers have the same flaw as the automatic faucets do; I can never figure out how to wave my hands in such a way as to turn them on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Next post will include photographs of public bathrooms that exceeded the bare essentials standard.</span></div>
<br />practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-32488941624552819002011-10-18T14:06:00.001-04:002011-10-18T14:06:42.794-04:00A Few Observations on BooksAnother fall, another group of freshman. Here are a few comments about books from the beginning of fall semester.<br />
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<li>Freshman are clueless as to how to buy their books. It makes sense. They never had to buy their books in high school. Though you would think an RA or someone would tell them about buying books. (This observation comes from seeing dozens of hysterical comments in the freshman facebook page.)<br /></li>
<li>Freshman still buy a lot, maybe even most, of their textbooks from the bookstore. They pretty quickly figure out that it's less expensive to buy them online. But initially they think they MUST have the textbook for the first day of class. Of course that's not true, and there are many classes where the textbook is rarely used. By sophomore year, they mostly seem to buy them online.<br /></li>
<li>Anecdotally we seemed to have lots more inquiries at the circulation desk from students asking if we have their textbooks. Is it because of the downturn in the economy? Are tour guides telling them we have textbooks? WE have some, especially in the Carlson Science and Engineering Library, but certainly not all of them. I wonder if we should pursue them more aggressively?<br /> </li>
<li>I have one freshman who is renting an online textbook. Who knew??? </li>
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<br />practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-84137741450473109322011-09-01T06:02:00.000-04:002011-09-01T06:02:18.920-04:00First Day of School<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yesterday was the first day of school for the Class of 2015. I took a minute to jot down my impressions of my six freshman advisees and I guess advising in general. And yes, some of them are contradictory.<br />
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1. This is the first group I've ever had who weren't afraid to email a professor or go ask questions at the Advising Fair. What a huge advantage to already know they need help and can ask for it.<br />
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2. And yet, they are overwhelmed by the amount of new information they have to absorb. What is "R"? Answer: Thursday in the online schedule. <br />
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3. Like all my previous classes, they are already thinking about majors (double), minors (lots) and of course, jobs when they graduate. <br />
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4. I periodically read through the 2015 Facebook page. Where are my classes? How do I know what textbooks to buy? I forget that in high school, i.e. 2 months ago, all their classes were in one building. They were given their textbooks. They worry if they'll have enough time to eat lunch. Oh yeah, there was a lunch period in high school.<br />
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5. They're very excited to be choose classes that let them sleep in past 9 a.m. <br />
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I love their unedited enthusiasm. Advising definitely keeps me humble. Every semester I learn some huge thing that I should have known. I also have a view of the university I never had before. I'm certainly not the best advisor there is, but I also know I'm not the worst. As long as they'll have me, I'm going to keep doing it.practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-83010285078638081802011-04-22T13:23:00.000-04:002011-04-22T13:27:14.764-04:00Undergraduates Have Never Used a PhonebookMy goodness. It's been a long time since I posted anything. This is sort of a cheat because it's really <a href="http://www.library.rochester.edu/carlson/staff-info">Trina</a>'s story not mine.<br /><br />"We got new phonebooks delivered today. As I was switching the new ones for the old ones I asked the 4 student employees who happened to be around if they had ever used one before. ALL shook their heads, mystified as to why anyone would have a need to. Plus one of them (super smart, going to the Simon School right now) shook her head and admitted she had no idea even how to use one.<br /><br />A little while later, I was coming upstairs with a 2nd set for me, and a student who is applying for a job saw that my hands were full and offered to help me. When I gave him the white and yellow pages, he asked: “what are these”? He found my answer amusing I think!"<br /><br />We could start our own "Beloit" list. They probably don't know what a "dial tone" is either...practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-72063541653414537002011-02-03T16:59:00.004-05:002011-02-03T17:01:51.421-05:00Video with an iphone app<span style="font-size:130%;">I took pictures with my iphone as I went through my day last Tuesday of Rush Rhees and Carlson Libraries. 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I even had a fantasy at the beginning of the week that I could keep track of what I did all day. Ha Ha! It also turned out that a significant percentage of what I do is confidential and I can’t share the details. So how about some broad comments about what an AD does over a the course of a “typical” week?</span></p> <ul style="font-family:arial;"><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>I go to meetings, a lot of meetings. I have on average four hours of meetings every day, sometimes more. I eat my lunch at my desk almost every day. Most days someone still comes in and talks to me. I don’t know exactly what that says about ME that people are content to watch me shovel food into my mouth….<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>In addition to attending a lot of meeting, I schedule and reschedule meetings. It seems that one of my roles is nothing more than bringing the right people together into a room with a problem to solve.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>Over a week, I have staff vent anger at me. I have staff cry. I encourage. I cajole. I give candid feedback. I am a cheerleader. I am a problem solver. I organize parties. I write and edit emails, job descriptions, and announcements.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>I accomplish very little on my own. Almost everything I do involves working with other people. So I never feel I should really take credit for much of anything because I didn’t really do it myself. </span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">And that’s all I can write in a few minutes of unscheduled time!</span></p>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-66039741040124367522010-12-31T07:41:00.004-05:002010-12-31T14:30:13.580-05:00Books Read in 2010<div>I read more books than last year and averaged more than one a week! Of course the majority of them are children's fiction; five Newbery Award winners. My favorites were "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever", "Still Life", "The Lonely Polygamist", and "The Help". My favorite REreads were "A Little Princess", "Winnie the Pooh" (surely I had read this) and "Straight Man". I read books in print, on my kindle, on my itouch, my iphone, and my ipad. I have a long plan trip next week and I am determined to read "Watership Down" and "The House of the Spirits". There, I've made a public commitment. </div><div><ol><li>Pollyanna</li><li>A Little Princess</li><li>Stuart Little</li><li>The Doll's House</li><li>The Chisselers</li><li>Henry and Beezus</li><li>Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.</li><li>The Summer of the Swans</li><li>The Big Steal</li><li>The Best Christmas Pageant Ever</li><li>Freaky Friday</li><li>Winnie the Pooh</li><li>Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe</li><li>The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing</li><li>Straight Man</li><li>The Corrections</li><li>The Hills of Home: A Vermont idyll</li><li>Five for Sorrow Ten for Joy</li><li>Digging to America</li><li>Adam of the Road</li><li>Little House on the Prairie</li><li>Plainsong</li><li>A Candle for St. Jude</li><li>The Botany of Desire</li><li>The Railway Children</li><li>Bergdorf Blonds</li><li>The trumpet of the Swan</li><li>Five Little Peppers and How They Grew</li><li>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</li><li>The Devil Wears Prada</li><li>Winter Solstice</li><li>The Lightning Thief</li><li>It's Like This, Cat</li><li>Breakfast at Tiffany's</li><li>My Side of the Mountain</li><li>The Urban Hermit</li><li>Pretties</li><li>The Wanderer</li><li>The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole</li><li>Sizzling Sixteen</li><li>Tangled</li><li>Every Last One</li><li>Uglies</li><li>The Graveyard Book</li><li>Too Much Money</li><li>The Lonely Polygamist</li><li>Mostly Good Girls</li><li>Savvy</li><li>Brave Girl Eating</li><li>Dark Song</li><li>One More Theory About Happiness</li><li>Listening Is an Act of Love</li><li>Charlotte's Web</li><li>Wicked</li><li>The Professional</li><li>The Ballad of West Tenth Street</li><li>Howl's Moving Castle</li><li>Siam</li><li>Mrs. Mike</li><li>George's Marvelous Medicine</li><li>The Help</li><li>Ginger Pye</li><li>The Fortune Cookie Chronicles</li><li>Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes</li><li>Blue Willow</li><li>Looking for Alibrandi</li><li>Still Life</li><li>Warriors #1</li><li>A Year in the Merde</li></ol></div><div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate;"> </span></span> </div>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-50561010396021829312010-12-16T16:33:00.000-05:002010-12-16T16:38:52.539-05:00Tweets by Undergraduates on the libraryI've collected (in an extremely unscientific sample) comments on the library and books by the undergraduates I follow on twitter. Lots of procrastinting especially in Gleason and lots of comments about food!<br /><br />should change her permanent address to somewhere on the academic quad... class/lib-ing it up is really taking a toll on my drunk bitch time.<br /><br />Lazy day in Gleason with Camille, the Brownie, and the Bear. I love my life. Oh and James brought me steak...beeeyatchesss!!<br /><br />Too tired to function at the moment. My shift ends at 6 and I still have to lib it up today. Can someone please shoot me?<br /><br />Once again in the lib...so this makes it over 2 weeks of my life. Anyone up for a euthanasia?<br /><br />@ Let me know when you want to do that quick walk through Rush Rhees<br /><br />@ thanks katie haha I'm just sleep deprived from the late nights at the lib...it's awful.<br /><br />Cracking up at the fact that our library is on the cover of the Princeton's Review top college book. Our lib must be so baller<br /><br />Me + Garrett + Lib+ Late Nights = why the hell am in the library on a Friday night? What the hell has happened to me?<br /><br />In the lib trying really really really heard to do this French workbook. It's not really working for me...shiiiit.<br /><br />yeah sitting in gleason and I really need to find a table. PRONTO.<br /><br />After waking up at 3, I'm finally in the library. Wooo!<br /><br />It's so quiet in the Art and Music Library that I can actually hear the silence... maybe I should just stick to Gleason.<br /><br />Is doing anything but studying. Thanks, Gleason.<br /><br />doing nothing at Gleason like a TRUE U of R student.<br /><br />In Quieter Study Area of Gleason with Julia and Christina :D... @UR_FASA study session!<br /><br /><br />The library is so full on a Saturday night, it's hard to find seats #onlyatuofr<br /><br /><br />Added "Gleason Library" to my places on twitter because it's basically my home and deserves to be repped.<br /><br />girl with obnoxiously loud ringtone at a quiet study area got stares from everyone #learnyourlesson<br /><br />I get to make a pyramid out of books and take a picture of it for 15 points extra credit. #awesome<br /><br />Is it weird that I love using books but hate using online sources when I write research papers? Stuck in the 20th century, heh.<br /><br />super quiet library. super loud stomach growls. match made in hell.<br /><br />Restless in Gleason. Methinks I need Chinese food to concentrate on my readings for "Politics of Insurgency and Terrorism."<br /><br />Why yes, I am that crazy girl who brings a bag to library to hold the 30+ books that I need to check out.<br /><br />To all the engineers that go to UofR, please stop thinking that since you have a "hard" major you can play Blink 182 loudly in library.<br /><br />The library is incredibly peaceful right now.<br /><br />Procrastinating in the Wells-Brown Room. Typical finals week.<br /><br />Curled up in the Wells Brown room, editing a book review on "Lying Awake," and drinking a fantastic cup of coffee. Life is good.<br /><br />sitting in the library. no noise other than someone quietly hacking up phelgm and someone else cutting their nails. awful awful awful.<br /><br />I've rekindled my love with Carlson...yes, Carlson Library <3<br /><br />apitlyk I think that the only thing that I'm going to miss about the U of R is Rush Rhees (the library, not the tombstone of the man).<br /><br />Not happy that the PRR and Great Hall will be closed for #meliora. Three midterms in the next two weeks AHH.practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-46691802132893379262010-10-27T09:45:00.004-04:002010-12-20T04:48:20.083-05:00Waiting for the Mail is Old SchoolWhen I was a college student our mail boxes were inside the front door of our dorm. We checked them several times a day -- when we left for classes, when we came back from classes, walking by on the way to the television (no, we didn't our own televisions in our room...) etc. Fast forward. University of Rochester students each have a CPU box in the university building that houses the post office, but not in their dorms. They rarely get print mail. Their parents call them and text them. They <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">facebook</span> and text their friends. They almost never GET mail so they almost never go and check their CPU boxes. As one student told me, they're mostly filled with chinese take-out menus...<div><br /></div><div>So why does the University still send *important* notifications in print to CPU boxes?? As an adviser, I get copied in on these official letters. I immediately scan the letter and resend it by email with a follow-up on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">facebook</span>. On more than one <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">occasion</span>, my email is the first time that the student has learned that they are in danger of failing, being expelled, etc. etc. Yikes!</div><div><br /></div><div>Why on earth do we insist on communicating with students the way we did when we were undergraduates? </div>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-45141645369327961632010-10-19T09:38:00.002-04:002010-10-19T09:42:04.542-04:00We need stack locations<strong>I sat next to Stephen a few weeks ago in a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Stackmap</span> demo. He pointed out something to me that I had never registered in TEN YEARS. Sigh. Our catalog records don't include a floor location for Rush <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Rhees</span> library. This isn't a problem for art books with the notation "Art Stacks - Art/Music Library". However this is a HUGE problem when you're <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">looking</span> for a book on one of the thirteen floors of stacks in Rush <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Rhees</span>. Users have to take the call number, go to a little map on the wall which translates to the floor and then go to the floor. Not only are our stacks <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">scary</span> (lights on timers...), we make it really hard to find things. I over heard a campus tour guide the other day announce to her group "books are really hard to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">find</span>". I'm afraid I would have to agree.<br /><br />I'm sure there was a good reason for not include floor locations originally, but I think it's time to revisit that decision. Yes, we do shift books from floor to floor. But we don't shift them every day. While the current arrangement makes OUR life easier, it makes finding the books really really difficult for users. </strong>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-84683459739048557082010-03-18T06:27:00.004-04:002010-03-18T13:21:19.433-04:00Checking out Print Journals<span style="font-size:130%;">I've been following a conversation on the PAMnet list serve about policies for checking out bound journals from an annex. I feel out of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">sync</span> with the general sentiment which is to limit circulation anywhere from no circulation at all to just a few days. Last semester under my direction (pressure?) we standardized our circulation policy for bound journals; we now circulate all bound journals for two weeks. This is a huge change for us. Our circulation policies differed from library to library and even from journal to journal. The loan period ranged from two hours up to two weeks. Obviously the policy was confusing to users. But the more compelling argument was looking at the circulation statistics and noting that they were very low. With a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">commitment</span> from our fantastic <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Inter Library</span> Loan department to get, without question, articles from any volumes that may be checked out, we took the leap and all our bound journals now have a two week circulation period. To *my* knowledge, there hasn't been a single problem or complaint. (I hope I'm not cursing myself with that statement.) I predict than in a year or two, we'll have the same circulation period for journals that we do for books.</span>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-22456398341248716662010-02-25T16:06:00.002-05:002010-02-25T16:11:17.408-05:00More textbook pricesI pulled up one of my advisee's course listing for this semester and looked up the cost of textbooks. It turns out that the bookstore has an online site, of course. The only question I have is why does anyone buy any books from the bookstore???<br /><br /><strong>Biology 113</strong><br />Biological Science by Freeman - package<br />Bookstore New $76 Amazon New $70<br />Bookstore Used $57 Amazon Used $20<br /><br /><strong>Chemistry 132</strong><br />Chemical Principles - package (used for fall and spring)<br />Bookstore New $335 Amazon New $237<br />Bookstore Used $ 251 Amazon Used $119<br /><br /><strong>German 102</strong><br />English Grammar for Students of German<br />Bookstore New $19 Amazon New $17<br />Bookstore Used $14 AmazonUsed $13<br /><br />Na Klar<br />Bookstore New $222 Amazon New $109<br />Bookstore Used $167 Amazon Used $30<br /><br /><strong>Math 165</strong><br />Linear Algebra<br />Bookstore New $148 Amazon New $99<br />Bookstore Used $111 Amazon Used $15<br /><br /><strong>TOTALS</strong><br />Bookstore New $800 Amazon New $532<br />Bookstore Used $600 Amazon Used $197practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-64388622237463501612010-02-24T11:29:00.004-05:002010-02-24T11:54:15.827-05:00The Cost of Textbooks<span style="font-size:130%;">The use of reserves is on the rise this semester. There are more books being put on reserve and they are being used more often. Why? So during a fire alarm I went over to the bookstore to see how much textbooks actually cost. Unfortunately the textbook area was roped off, but the student behind the desk was bored and happy to look up prices for me.<br /><br /><br /><br />Introductory Biology - $76<br />Introductory Chemistry - $300 (used for both semesters)<br />Calculus - $228 (used for the whole calculus series)<br />Physics 114 - $200 (they actually use two text books)<br />Mechanical Engineering 120 - $163<br /><br /><br /><br />Yikes! A freshman science major could spend more than $500 their first semester on books? Of course, it would be much less the second semester, but that's a lot of money even to me. I need to go back with a real course schedule and see how much the textbooks would cost.<br /><br /><br /><br />By sophomore year they know to buy their books on Amazon. I'll have to check that out with a list of real books to see how much money they save.</span>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-864506405016021272010-02-09T09:13:00.002-05:002010-02-09T09:19:42.203-05:00Sophomores<span style="font-size:130%;">What a difference there is between freshman year and sophomore year. I met with one of my sophomore <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">advisees</span> this week.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">1. She has learned she can save a lot of money by buying her textbooks used from Amazon rather than full price from the campus bookstore.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">2. She is choosing a subject matter she loves as her major even though the classes are hard and her grades aren't the hardest.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">3. When she has papers and exams in the same week - she gets the paper done a week ahead of time.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">4. She's in a sorority but knows she often has to say "no" to parties because she <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">needs</span> to study.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Yes, I take some of this with a grain of salt, but in general I don't think they have much to gain by impressing *me*...</span>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-48721692973420906612010-01-14T04:39:00.003-05:002010-01-14T04:44:35.599-05:00Advising<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Advising goes in spurts. Weeks go by and I do nothing and feel guilty that I'm being paid (yes, that is correct) for doing it. Then I have a week where I think I'm not being paid enough. Letters of academic probation?? Another steep and fast learning curve about that topic. I've decided I need to go to some sessions on getting into medical school. I have so many </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">advisees</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> who are "premed" and I don't think I'm giving them good or honest or realistic advice. And that's all I'm going to say on that topic.</span></span>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-9944895603248651962010-01-11T07:25:00.009-05:002010-01-11T09:04:13.599-05:00More Reading on the Kindle<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: normal;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Now that I have my *own* kindle, I have more to say about the reading experience. At my nieces recommendation, i bought the first book in the series, "The Warriors". The book is about cats, with very similar names - firepaw, moonpaw, starpaw, etc. etc. If I had read the book in print, I would have occasionally flipped back to the beginning to review the list of characters. I think you can do it on the kindle, but I don't know how and it's not intuitive. The barrier is too high for me to bother to figure it out. There is also a map in the front of the book, that my niece went out of her way to point out to me. I never even thought to look at it on the kindle. The resolution was poor and again I was flummoxed by how to flip to the front of the book.<br /><br />I also find it difficult to *find* books on the kindle. It's not made for browsing, which is surprising, because the Amazon site is all about browsing.<br /><br />On the plus side, I *love* being about to download a sample chapter for FREE. I downloaded at least a dozen sample chapters over the weekend. I will try them and if I like them, I can just buy them while I'm travelling. O.K. That's the best thing about the kindle - I can buy a book almost anywhere, anytime!</span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"></span></span></span></span><br /></span>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-65230912809472482952009-12-31T07:51:00.005-05:002009-12-31T07:56:12.821-05:00Nine Screens in My Daily Life<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I just heard a commentary on "Morning Edition" about the number of screens people use in their daily life. I have eight, wait nine. Is that average?? Frankly I wish I could </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">consolidate</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> some. It's a pain when I travel and take my </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">itouch</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, kindle, camera, cell phone, and laptop.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><ol><li><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">itouch</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">kindle<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">t.v. <br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">t.v.<br /></span></li><li><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">MacbBook</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> at home<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">laptop at work<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">cell phone<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">portable DVD player<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">camera</span><br /></li></ol></div>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-22622658061436165662009-12-30T16:10:00.002-05:002009-12-30T16:19:38.306-05:00Abbreviations<span style="font-size:130%;">When I first became a reference librarian, I spent a lot of time deciphering journal abbreviations. Once you had the title you could search the online catalog, which initially didn't have keyword searching! I just saw that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">CAS</span> has come out with an </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/dining/09bento.html?scp=1&sq=bento&st=cse"><span style="font-size:130%;">abbreviation tool </span></a><span style="font-size:130%;">for free on the web. Helen and I have been arguing about whether anyone but librarians really use these kinds of things anymore. Certainly the number of questions coming to us has decreased dramatically. I've seen lots of students use google to figure out abbreviation.s You type in as much of the citation as you have and maybe a more complete citation will come up or even the full text of the article. Cool tool but that horse may have already left the stall.....</span>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-80912687384615448702009-12-29T19:08:00.010-05:002009-12-29T19:27:47.188-05:00A Book a Week for 2009<span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;">I set a goal for myself last January to read a book a week and lo and behold I did it! Many were children's books and several were re-reads, but they still count!</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Alan Bradley 2009 KINDLE </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead 2009 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Un Lun Dun China Mieville 2008 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Cocktails for Three Madeleine Wickham 2001 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl 2007 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Diary of a Wimpy Kid #1 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney 2007 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Anywhere but Here Mona Simpson 1992 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, No. 7) Janet Evanovich 2002 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Tennis Partner - A Doctor's Story Of Friendship And Loss - Abraham Verghese 1998 <br /></span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Moorchild Eloise McGraw 1998 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Cutting for Stone: A novel Abraham Verghese 2009 Hands down the best book of 2009 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Room for One More Anna Perrott Rose 1950 Reread </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Finn Family Moomintroll. Tove. Jansson 1989 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Moominsummer Madness (Puffin Books) Tove Jansson 1973 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Light a Penny Candle Maeve Binchy 1983 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 2008 Reread, but still love this book </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Matters of Chance: A Novel Jeannette Haien 1998 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell 2004 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Certain Girls: A Novel Jennifer Weiner 2009 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) Stephenie Meyer 2006</span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A Fatal Grace Louise Penny 2006 KINDLE This was a close second for "best"</span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Archivist: A Novel Martha Cooley 1999 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin 2007 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann 1997 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">All-of-a-kind Family Sydney Taylor 1980 Reread</span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Witches of Worm Zilpha Keatley Snyder 1986 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2007 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Fearless Fourteen Janet Evanovich 2008 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Whistling Season Ivan Doig 2007 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Talk Before Sleep A Novel Elizabeth Berg 1997 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung Martha Mason 2003 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Finding Betty Crocker Susan Marks 2005 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Senator's Wife Sue Miller 2009 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Coraline Neil Gaiman 2006 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Great Gilly Hopkins Katherine Paterson 1987 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Eat Cake Jeanne Ray 2004 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World Vicki Myron 2008 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger 2004 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan 2001 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year Michael Stein 2009 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Water for Elephants: A Novel Sara Gruen 2007 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Lucky Everyday Bapsy Jain 2009 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: A Memoir Giulia Melucci 2009 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Know-It-All A. J. Jacobs 2005 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 2006 Stanza </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Twelve Sharp Janet Evanovich 2006 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Hungry Monkey Matthew Amster-Burton Good enough to read twice in one year.<br /></span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Laws of Harmony: A Novel Judith R. Hendricks </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Academy X: A Novel Andrew Trees 2007 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Middle Kingdom Andrea Barrett 1992 </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited Elyse Schein 2008 <br /></span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Back When We Were Grownups Anne Tyler 2004 </span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Times;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <br /></span></span></li></ol>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-40384137124663170592009-12-14T19:27:00.007-05:002009-12-14T19:33:19.927-05:00This Reference Librarian Made a Difference<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Frankly I live vicariously through my reference librarians. I push papers all day. I guess I do make sure my advisees remember to register for classes, but what I do seems very far removed from real students most days. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Here is an email (with personal information removed) from a student to one of my reference librarians. Wow. This made my day and the praise isn't even for me!</span><br /><br /></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><em>"Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with me!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Your help was just what I needed to finally get my paper right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It hasn't been graded yet, but the TA really liked it when he reviewed my rough draft!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was a really fun paper to research and write, and I honestly would not have written a paper as good as this one without all the sources and database know-how you taught me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I am very grateful and I hope you have a great holiday!"</em></span></p>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20584221.post-48547099990365752022009-10-26T09:43:00.016-04:002009-10-27T13:16:12.954-04:00A Bad Bathroom Can Ruin a Trip<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rUtfv7CaEhA/SuWo87MIEMI/AAAAAAAAA5s/bHOCf6hYX_w/s1600-h/philadelphia+flooded+bathroom.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396905493107577026" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rUtfv7CaEhA/SuWo87MIEMI/AAAAAAAAA5s/bHOCf6hYX_w/s320/philadelphia+flooded+bathroom.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Am I overstating my case? No! A bad bathroom can ruin an entire trip. I went to a conference in Philadelphia in January 2008 and arrived late afternoon. The hotel was overbooked and the only room that was available was a handicapped room. It was dark. It was January. It was a big city. What else could I do but grab the room? It never even crossed my mind that it would be a nightmare. I didn't understand that handicapped bathrooms do not have tubs or even show stalls. There is a shower (with a curtain for what that's worth) in the corner of the bathroom with a drain in the middle of the floor. The theory being that you can just roll your wheelchair under the shower head and away you go. The theory is good, in practice, not so good. Apparently my bathroom floor was not leveled correctly because instead of water going into the drain, it covered the floor. I don't mean a little dampness on the floor, I mean an inch of standing water all over the entire bathroom floor. I had to use every towel I had to blot up the water after every shower. I was afraid if I dried my hair standing in an inch of water, I would electrocute myself! No matter how briefly I showered, all the water pooled onto the floor and I had to go through the towel blotting exercise. After four mornings of this, I could not wait to come home to a functional shower. Other people come back from Philadelphia with memories of Reading Market. I will never forget the standing water covering my bathroom floor every morning.<br /><br />I was recently at a conference in Chicago. The hotel front desk asked me whether I would accept a handicapped room. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!<br /><br />Follow Bathroom Blogfest on Twitter at #ladiesroom09 or check out the website </span><a href="http://www.bathroomblogfest.com/"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://www.bathroomblogfest.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;">.<br /><br />You can visit the participating bloggers for Bathroom Blogfest ’09:<br /><br />Susan Abbott at Customer Experience Crossroads </span><a href="http://www.customercrossroads.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://www.customercrossroads.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Reshma Anand at Qualitative Research Blog </span><a href="http://onqualitativeresearch.blogspot.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://onqualitativeresearch.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Shannon Bilby at From the Floors Up </span><a href="http://fromthefloorsup.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://fromthefloorsup.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Shannon Bilby and Brad Millner at My Big Bob’s Blog </span><a href="http://blog.mybigbobs.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://blog.mybigbobs.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Laurence Borel at Blog Till You Drop </span><a href="http://www.laurenceborel.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://www.laurenceborel.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Jeanne Byington at The Importance of Earnest Service </span><a href="http://blog.jmbyington.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://blog.jmbyington.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Becky Carroll at Customers Rock! </span><a href="http://www.customersrock.net/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://www.customersrock.net/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Leslie Clagett at KB Culture </span><a href="http://www.kbculture.blogspot.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://www.kbculture.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Iris Shreve Garrott at Checking In and Checking Out </span><a href="http://circulating.wordpress.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://circulating.wordpress.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Julie at Julie’s Cleaning Secrets Blog </span><a href="http://cleaningsecrets.greatcleaners.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://cleaningsecrets.greatcleaners.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Marianna Hayes at Results Revolution </span><a href="http://www.resultsrevolution.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://www.resultsrevolution.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Maria Palma at People To People Service </span><a href="http://www.people2peopleservice.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://www.people2peopleservice.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Professor Toilet at Professor Toilet’s Blog </span><a href="http://www.professortoilet.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://www.professortoilet.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />David Reich at My 2 Cents </span><a href="http://reichcomm.typepad.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://reichcomm.typepad.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Bethany Richmond at The Carpet and Rug Institute Blog </span><a href="http://www.carpet-and-rug-institute-blog.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://www.carpet-and-rug-institute-blog.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Carolyn Townes at Becoming a Woman of Purpose </span><a href="http://spiritwomen.blogspot.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://spiritwomen.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Stephanie Weaver at Experienceology </span><a href="http://experienceology.blogspot.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://experienceology.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />C.B. Whittemore at Flooring The Consumer </span><a href="http://flooringtheconsumer.blogspot.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://flooringtheconsumer.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"> and Simple Marketing Blog </span><a href="http://www.simplemarketingblog.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://www.simplemarketingblog.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Linda Wright at Lindaloo.com: Build Better Business with Better Bathrooms </span><a href="http://lindaloo.com/" target="new"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://lindaloo.com/</span></a>practical katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02407483503291519173noreply@blogger.com16