[77] Into the Weekend
Feb. 17th, 2006 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filmnoirAhh, the weekend is here finally! I think I'm going to see Capote this weekend before P.S. Hoffman wins the Best Actor Oscar. It's good to see this Hoffman rise above his former habit of being a marginal character actor who was known to buddy around with a marginal director like P.T. Anderson (though one could say that Hoffman's true talent was first evident in Anderson's Magnolia).
I'd like to begin the entry by saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY, INFINITE_RES!! May this new year for you in this life be enlightening and enriching, particularly with your teaching, your family and anything else. :)
As part of helping the Reference Department out at the library, I am occasionally asked to give newly admitted students for future terms tours of the Library & Technology Center (or LTC; in librarianship, avoiding acronyms of any sort is an impossibility). What it is essentially is a tour of the library telling what it has of course but it's also more a PR thing (read: propaganda) to basically help convince these future students and often their rich parents that they have made the right choice in attending our school. The problem with this set up is the Admissions office does not often communicate with whomever is leading the tours whether there actually is a tour or not (such as what has happened the last few times with me, including yesterday). But because of our recent shake-up in the Ref Dept. [see 51], schedules have had to shift around until they can get someone else in here (who is hopefully much saner than the last one) and thus I've been slated to do another one today. I usually do very well (hell, I've toured countless faculty candidates through three floors of library back in Michigan, this one is no big deal), including one-on-one tours for ones who showed up late after the large group (last one was for an absolutely beautiful woman named Melodie).
I think it's often good that there is in some sense some cooperation here between Reference (public service folks) and the Technical Services folks (the ones who do all the real behind-the-scenes work) at this library because it is not always a common thing in the library world. Ref folks still don't know the fundamentals of cataloging and as such should really not go into cataloging as a rule; however, some cataloging folks (not all by far) can also be great reference people; funny how that is. I only know of one instance where a person who worked several years as a Ref librarian was able to make the shift to becoming a cataloger (my friend at WSU). However, our parent company's Phoenix location has just hired a cataloger who has only reference experience before and it is like starting at square one, step one with her in not only the concepts of cataloging (which was apparently forgotten from library school if she was required to take any such classes) much less actual physical processing experience of materials. As I was telling my colleague (Ju., the systems librarian), for someone starting out at square one and taking into account the individual's learning curve, it could take the concept part a full year to get down with both the concepts and processing synthesis a good two years before things are meshing as they should (and those are generous estimates). We'll see if the Phoenix woman is able to last this time frame.
Finally, dear readers, I've been officially offered some volunteer work at a local women's shelter to do tutoring. I will be assisting in reading, English as a Second Language, and library work at this place not too far from my house. I'm happy to get back into instruction and I feel good about this chance to participate more in my community.
Coming inside from a night that smelled like sweet candy.
Lovely eyes looking from car rear view mirror in front of my car.
Full moon still hanging around in the morning like a night watchman.
Night silhouettes of 2 women talking animatedly outside Chinese restaurant.
Movies watched this week
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964)
Zorba the Greek (Michael Cacoyannis, 1963)
In Country (Norman Jewison, 1989)
Wisdom (Emilio Estevez, 1987)
Most played tracks (#723)
1. Talk--Coldplay
2. Bend and Break--Keane
3. Earthquake Weather--Beck
4. Animals-Nickelback
5. Yesterday Never Tomorrow--The Stills
(new tracks: "Savin' Me"--Nickelback (20.); "Our Truth"--Lacuna Coil (28.))
~avec plaisir~
I'd like to begin the entry by saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY, INFINITE_RES!! May this new year for you in this life be enlightening and enriching, particularly with your teaching, your family and anything else. :)
As part of helping the Reference Department out at the library, I am occasionally asked to give newly admitted students for future terms tours of the Library & Technology Center (or LTC; in librarianship, avoiding acronyms of any sort is an impossibility). What it is essentially is a tour of the library telling what it has of course but it's also more a PR thing (read: propaganda) to basically help convince these future students and often their rich parents that they have made the right choice in attending our school. The problem with this set up is the Admissions office does not often communicate with whomever is leading the tours whether there actually is a tour or not (such as what has happened the last few times with me, including yesterday). But because of our recent shake-up in the Ref Dept. [see 51], schedules have had to shift around until they can get someone else in here (who is hopefully much saner than the last one) and thus I've been slated to do another one today. I usually do very well (hell, I've toured countless faculty candidates through three floors of library back in Michigan, this one is no big deal), including one-on-one tours for ones who showed up late after the large group (last one was for an absolutely beautiful woman named Melodie).
I think it's often good that there is in some sense some cooperation here between Reference (public service folks) and the Technical Services folks (the ones who do all the real behind-the-scenes work) at this library because it is not always a common thing in the library world. Ref folks still don't know the fundamentals of cataloging and as such should really not go into cataloging as a rule; however, some cataloging folks (not all by far) can also be great reference people; funny how that is. I only know of one instance where a person who worked several years as a Ref librarian was able to make the shift to becoming a cataloger (my friend at WSU). However, our parent company's Phoenix location has just hired a cataloger who has only reference experience before and it is like starting at square one, step one with her in not only the concepts of cataloging (which was apparently forgotten from library school if she was required to take any such classes) much less actual physical processing experience of materials. As I was telling my colleague (Ju., the systems librarian), for someone starting out at square one and taking into account the individual's learning curve, it could take the concept part a full year to get down with both the concepts and processing synthesis a good two years before things are meshing as they should (and those are generous estimates). We'll see if the Phoenix woman is able to last this time frame.
Finally, dear readers, I've been officially offered some volunteer work at a local women's shelter to do tutoring. I will be assisting in reading, English as a Second Language, and library work at this place not too far from my house. I'm happy to get back into instruction and I feel good about this chance to participate more in my community.
Movies watched this week
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964)
Zorba the Greek (Michael Cacoyannis, 1963)
In Country (Norman Jewison, 1989)
Wisdom (Emilio Estevez, 1987)
Most played tracks (#723)
1. Talk--Coldplay
2. Bend and Break--Keane
3. Earthquake Weather--Beck
4. Animals-Nickelback
5. Yesterday Never Tomorrow--The Stills
(new tracks: "Savin' Me"--Nickelback (20.); "Our Truth"--Lacuna Coil (28.))
~avec plaisir~
