My Pro-file

Just a bit about my professional position and ambition, since it ultimately should be the crux of this blog. I entered the MLIS program at OU after getting a part-time job at the reference desk at my local public library, and fell in love with the work -- as much with the social aspect as the page-digging stuff. Since I started teaching the basic and intermediate Internet courses offered for free in the library's computer lab, I've come to enjoy it even more.

This course, even just one week into it, has been a good reminder to me of what most of the folks I teach in those Internet courses must feel like -- excited, motivated, and "pleasantly frustrated" by it all. It's great to hear them say they're leaving the lab a bit fried mentally from all the new input, but inspired because they now know enough to feel comfortable practicing with search engines and the like.

So, I hope to tailor my program toward public library work, with a thoroughly technological bent. LIS 5433 definitely confirms these plans for me -- I'm loving it.

One more thing: I'll practice hyperlinking by directing you toward someone I think is incredibly cool.

Back-patting time

Just popping in to give myself a "gold star" for establishing a Google Reader account and adding all my classmates' blogs (so far) to it! While rudimentary to most of the rest of the cyber world, I'm sure, this is cause for a mini-celebration! I've achieved another mini-goal and learned a bit about something I had no experience with whatsoever.

So, thanks for sharing in it with me -- just for that, you get a gold star, too!

Rheumy Reflections

Welcome to my first-ever post on my first-ever attempt to blog. If you're reading this, you're either enrolled in the same MLIS course at the University of Oklahoma as I am, or you just stumbled across it somehow. Either way, welcome!

Today's useless fact: The dry, crusty stuff that collects around your eyes when you sleep -- cleverly labelled "sleep," where I come from -- is called RHEUM by the biological/medical community.

Since I do most of my studying in the early-morning, still-dark hours, I suspect most of my posts will appear then, too. So, I'll be typing with one hand while the other is busy with rheum removal. *grin* For that reason, too, I'll keep the template colors as bright and cheery as possible -- helps me wake up.

Glad you stopped by!