June 30, 2008
Yeah, so that last link I posted to my capstone portfolio was bunk. As in, password protected.
I have a version up on Freewebs. Ignore the freewebs add at the bottom of each page (if you can!)
Currently, I am going through and tweaking the stylesheet so everything looks nice…..remembering all about percentages, padding, spaces, etc….fun schtuff!
June 29, 2008
So, I am almost done with my capstone project. Go through, tighten up verbiage, fix a couple of html kinks that are buggin me, and then to sit and relax.
check it out:
capstone website
June 23, 2008
This is one of those fun things out and about on the internet these days (aka memes). Courtesy of the Jason Griffey, who just happens to have come out with probably a very awesome book on Library Blogging.
Basically, go to Wordle and you create this awesome picture by cutting and pasting text or putting in your del.icio.us username. Fun stuff for a Monday. I have seen a couple that people have done and it is quite awesome.
June 19, 2008
Just when you think there are no more awesome jobs out there, another month passes and BOOM.
Everybody seems to be looking for someone.
And there is good news….there seem to be actual management and supervisory positions available.
Of course, I would like to be a director of a small library, but I also think working in a bigger city and getting my feet wet in management would be a lot of fun as well.
I have to say the best places to look for jobs (for us Midwesterners):
1. LISjobs.com (everything is kind of a distant second to these guys)
2. MPLA jobline
3. KLA Jobs.
I am pretty excited, and for the first time in my job search I have found a Colorado job I would love to have. Mainly because I would be close to some really good friends and my beloved Rocky Mountains. That being said, my true wish is Kansas.
June 14, 2008
So I had so much fun doing the job hunt the first time around, that I have decided to do it again.
The only difference this time is I have decided not to be so open about it.
So if I get a job, you will be the first to know. But if I don’t or I turn it down, nobody but me and that library will know.
Sometimes being open is not so good.
And now that I have read a nice little book about what can and cannot be done (legally) in an interview, it is fun to see how the places I applied at before should be reading this book as well.
June 6, 2008
Here is a link to an article about an elderly gentleman that was struck by a car. Sadly, no traffic stopped to help him, and bystanders just stood there until a policeman who happened to be in the area stopped and helped the gentleman.
http://www.motoring.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4440039&fSectionId=928&fSetId=381
So, could you imagine someone running over your father or grandfather and people just standing there not doing anything about it?
June 5, 2008
Wow! what a last couple of weeks.
Finally off of the job interview trail and very glad about it.
I had a fun time for the most part, and am glad that it gave me the opportunity to do some serious thinking and reflection on where I want to go with my professional life.
Things I learned:
One-I like Eastern Kansas more than I thought. Mainly due to the number of friends I have in this part of the state, but also because my family lives in Missouri and I like being as close to them as possible (without actually living in Missouri).
Two-Royce really likes having health insurance, and I admit I was quite surprised that some places didn’t offer this basic benefit.
Three-It is nice to know I can get a job. I got offered two and wish I could have taken them, but you don’t really know what a job is going to be like until you visit the library board and meet the people.
I think my goal now is still the same, that is to be a library director, but I think my feeling now is that I should be a little more selective of the places I send resumes.
Hopefully, by the end of summer I will have that new job that marks the beginning of the next phase of my library life.
BTW–I wouldn’t mind a cool Regional Library System or State Library Job.
May 21, 2008
(I posted this at BlogJunction Kansas. Go check it out.)
The best time in graduate school is between semesters. This allows the brain to cool down, the body to get a little rest, and for you to become reacquainted with family and welcome any new additions to the family group.
For me, this time is usually spent trying to find something to take my mind off school. Unfortunately, this library science thing has me hooked and I find it incredibly hard to disconnect. Thankfully I have a couple of life tools that keep me going and help me to relax: Catharsis and Serendipity.
The Value of Catharsis
For me, I love catharsis! Whether it be rolling on the floor laughing to “Blazing Saddles” or my face in my hands crying at the end of “Rudy”, having a way to let it all go is great for the spirit. So if you find yourself in need of a good cathartic moment check out these videos (caution: tears may flow):
The Value of Serendipity
Serendipity rules! Embrace it. Let it happen to you.
I am sure we are all the beneficiaries of serendipity in one way or another. You can’t really create moments of serendipity like you can cathartic moments, but you can start to open your mind to the idea of letting serendipitous moments occur. Relax, smile, take a deep breath, go for a walk, let the mind wander, go “left” instead of “right”, etc.
May 18, 2008
Nothing surprising here. Library, time, work, new, people, getting, going, guitar……that sounds like me. wii is bigger than wife, thats is probably not good.
May 15, 2008
Desmond Tutu: Equality of U.S. blacks an ‘illusion’
By Storer H. Rowley, Tribune reporter, chicagotribune.com
May 14, 2008
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu weighed in on the presidential campaign Tuesday in Chicago, praising America’s ability to produce the first viable African-American presidential candidate while describing the nation as haunted by a racial divide that still offers blacks what he called only “the illusion of equality.”
“You are a crazy country,” Tutu, 76, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, said in an interview with the Tribune. “You’re a country that has I think some of the most generous people I’ve ever come across in the world.”
But he chided Americans for getting “very, very upset” with the pastor of Sen. Barack Obama, noting that Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. “may have said more crudely what, actually, almost every African-American would have wanted to say. I mean that is how they feel in your country, that race … is a very, very real issue.”
“And I think on the whole you keep trying to pretend it isn’t,” he added, noting the issue will haunt Americans until there is a way to talk honestly about race, such as holding a reconciliation forum.
Tutu, who headed South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission probing human-rights abuses under apartheid, was here to receive the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation’s Lincoln Leadership Prize, presented by Oprah Winfrey.
Unlike in South Africa’s apartheid era, he said, where blacks were treated as “nothing,” in America, “You say to them, ‘You’re equal, and the sky’s the limit.’ And they keep bumping their heads against this thing that’s stopping them from reaching out to the stars.”
Copyright © 2008, Chicago Tribune
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