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Here Come the Trading Cards

Published by Iris on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

I had my photo-shoot for this year’s trading cards. We got a couple of good pictures (I promise I’ll let you know when we’ve decided on one), and I had a blast tapping my inner super-hero… until I found out that the entire shoot had been held during the normal staff break time right outside of the windows to the break room. Apparently our metadata librarian turned to my supervisor and asked, “Why is half your team out there posing for each other.” Oh well. At least we had it better than my co-worker who had the president of the college walk past her while she did the same thing yesterday. (Although, I gotta say, to all of the prospective students and their parents who were in that college tour that walked past us today as we tried to figure out the super-est super-hero poses possible, we really aren’t insane. Really, we aren’t. Please keep Carleton on your radar even if it’s librarians are a little out there.)

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Good Day

Published by Iris on Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

After weeks of working and working all day every day and not feeling like I was making any progress on any projects, to day was great. It felt like every few minutes I could stand up and put a big red line through another item on my white board’s To Do list. I was on such a roll that I ended up staying an hour late! With another hour tomorrow morning, I should be able to catch up to where I wanted to be by tomorrow.

Oh, and tomorrow is the day I get my picture taken for my 2006-2007 trading card. Wish me luck!

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So Culturally Illiterate

Published by Iris on Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Ok, so it’s that time of the year again: time to come up with the information we put on the backs of our trading cards. This time of the year is fun, exciting, and MORTIFYING. Suddenly all the years I didn’t spend reading comic books rise up to whip me in the face. How should I know what characteristics go on the backs of these things?

So far I’ve come up with my Arch-Nemesis: Bad Puns. (Or should those be my vulnerability?) But I’d like something else cool and witty on there to make me seem hip and down with these millennials (though I suspect using “hip” and “down” would probably alert any college freshman to my un-hip-ness and my un-down-ness).

My other co-workers have already come up with things like “secret hideouts” and “sidekicks” and “catch phrases.” And then there’s me. I don’t really want a vehicle, and I’m not in need of a weapon (after all I have super powers, remember). Help me out here. What other characteristics do anime/super-hero types have?

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Trading Card Buzz

Trading Card Buzz

Published by Iris on Monday, June 19th, 2006

Wow! What a morning. I logged into my aggregator this morning to find that my library’s Librarian Trading Cards were featured on both The Shifted Librarian and Library Stuff! If you want to see the full run (different every year since 2002), they’ll be displayed as a poster at ALA. (I won’t be there, but six of my colleagues will.)


These cards were a blast to make (says she who didn’t have to build each one in Photoshop). And I’m really looking forward to making next year’s because when we made the current batch I’d only been working here for a couple of weeks and was still a bit hesitant about building some humor into the card. (Someone noted in a comment that only the guys have funny vulnerabilities. This is a symptom of having the concept evolving while the cards were already in production. When I was asked for information for the backs of the cards they hadn’t come up with the idea for vulnerabilities yet.)

Bigger Version of the Trading Cards
Oh, and my Libraries and Living Memories post got included in this week’s Carnival of the Infosciences (which is hosted by …The Thoughts Are Broken…). How much link love can one blogger stand in one day!!! This is quite the banner day for me, I tell ya.

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