The academic year is beginning, and the busiest, most exhausting time of year has started for me at work. This is the time of year where I have to meet-and-greet hundreds of new students, give numerous presentations on library resources, research skills, referencing, EndNote and whatever else a new student wants to know about these [...]
Why do people do senseless things? Here’s Senseless Act Number One. Yesterday at the library where I work some of my colleagues were greeted with the pleasant sight of human excrement stuffed into our overnight returns chute. It was a complete and utter mess. Some books were irreparably damaged and had to be thrown away, [...]
I’ve been thinking about cultural traditions and how they get passed down over the generations. I’m usually surprised at the fact that some cultural practices continue to be maintained, even if the older generations don’t provide any particular or overt teaching about why they’re done. Still, I think it is undeniable that cultures change with [...]