http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/01/24/eavesdropping/ ... the online home of a librarian in Perth, Western Australia Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:57:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/01/24/eavesdropping/#comment-2059 CW Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:22:38 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/01/24/eavesdropping/#comment-2059 So far so good, Penny :) Mind you a lot of people are still away on summer holidays. And as for Chinese engineers, there do seem to be many at MPOW. I hadn't realised! Now I have to improve my vocabulary in the areas such as soil deformation and oligonucleotides... So far so good, Penny Mind you a lot of people are still away on summer holidays. And as for Chinese engineers, there do seem to be many at MPOW. I hadn’t realised! Now I have to improve my vocabulary in the areas such as soil deformation and oligonucleotides…

]]> http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/01/24/eavesdropping/#comment-2058 Penny Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:51:57 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/01/24/eavesdropping/#comment-2058 how's the engineers? I had 2 Chinese librarian colleagues when I worked in the Engineering Library, & they would often conduct phone conversations in Chinese with some of our clients. We often commented that Mandarin would be really useful for Engineering librarians to learn. how’s the engineers? I had 2 Chinese librarian colleagues when I worked in the Engineering Library, & they would often conduct phone conversations in Chinese with some of our clients. We often commented that Mandarin would be really useful for Engineering librarians to learn.

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