Category Archives: Carleton

Friday

By Iris | Published: Friday, October 30th, 2009
It’s been a weird week. I’m feeling very get-off-my-lawn-ish about a bunch of things that really don’t deserve my ire (as well as a couple of things that do). It’s cloudy and very windy and generally feels like I’ve stepped into a scene from Wuthering Heights. I’m tired. So yeah, things are generally blah. Luckily, it [...]
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Course and College Integrated Instruction

By Iris | Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
It has been an odd but inspiring week at work. It was odd because my department members and I took one entire day to sit down together and write a couple of documents on a very tight deadline. It was inspiring because one of these documents mapped our experiences with last year’s first-year seminars to [...]
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Low-Key Cooperative Continual Professional Development

By Iris | Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2009
A few years ago, my library decided to start a cooperative blog where we’d alert each other to developments in the wider world of librarianship, highlight interesting things we’d learned, and generally help each other keep up. There was enthusiasm, there was drive, there was an interesting blog… and then it died. As far as I [...]
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New Research Guides Went Live!

By Iris | Published: Monday, September 14th, 2009
This is probably only really exciting for me, but I’m SO EXCITED, so I thought I’d share. Those libguides we were working on over the last few months? Well, they went live today with the start of classes. I give you … [insert drum roll here] … Gould Guides! Now, as with any transition, some things [...]
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New Trading Cards!

By Iris | Published: Friday, September 11th, 2009
We decided to change things up again. For years there were baseball trading cards, then for a couple of years there were anime trading cards, the last two years were classic comic book covers, and now… LP album covers! Here’s mine: And here are the rest of the gang’s. Like Unlike
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