I starting blogging in early 2012, and I can’t believe I am already halfway through my program at GSLIS! I live in rural NH and enjoy a very long commute to GSLIS West and Boston. I am presently employed as a Library Assistant & Inter-Library Loan Coordinator at my small public library and I volunteer in a prison library.
Becoming part of the Simmons GSLIS program was a mid-life career change for me, and one of the best things I ever did. So if you are over 40, married, have kids, dogs, cats, and chickens, and live really far away, I am proof that YOU can do this too!
March 20, 2013 – 11:24 am
I have a special relationship with my slow cooker. It all started when my daughter’s community theater involvement required me to be in the car, rather than behind the stove at meal time. I was not very creative back then, and we had a few standby recipes that I could throw in the pot early in the [...]
March 13, 2013 – 10:43 am
Back in April of last year, I was contemplating all the places where one might find librarians, and all the places we, as librarians, could choose to work. (Librarian or Batgirl?) Finding the right library niche is a personal journey. We can read about different kinds of opportunities, talk to our peers and professors, but [...]
I took a week off from blogging because I recently started a new volunteer/intern-ish position at a prison library, and I am still trying to embrace the new work schedule and commute, along with my job in a public library, and two classes. (We won’t mention laundry and housework as I am pretending they don’t [...]
February 20, 2013 – 2:34 pm
Over and over again, you have heard (or read) about my small town in New Hampshire. We are the proverbial small New England town, complete with General Store and a gazebo on the Town Common. We have strong agricultural roots, but we are not a hick town. 97% of our population has education beyond the [...]
February 13, 2013 – 7:21 am
In my town in NH, we had only 30 inches of snow last weekend. We were very fortunate and didn’t even lose power. We were all surprised by this since we lose power so often, but we are a very self-sufficient community and generally well-prepared for emergencies. Everyone I know in town has a [...]
February 5, 2013 – 2:02 pm
In case you missed it, here is the Library World’s brief moment in the limelight at the Super Bowl! What I really want to know is who whispers in the library?! Is this still our image? I work in a public library and we are a noisy, fun place, although we try to offer quiet [...]
January 30, 2013 – 3:36 pm
It has been a year since I started the GSLIS program, and it has taken me this long to understand the value of a degree program. I am not just talking about the “getting a job” piece – this is a professional program so it goes without saying that the purpose of the degree [...]
January 23, 2013 – 9:12 am
One year ago, I started the GSLIS program worrying about catching up on technology and the laundry, and filled with both anticipation and anxiety about going back to school. It seems like a long time ago. I am not the same person I was last January. Where there was fear, there is now confidence. [...]
January 16, 2013 – 9:32 am
I like my blogs to be fun but informative, which usually means avoiding politics. Unfortunately, there is a political situation taking place across the nation that just might influence your decision to go to library school. I live in rural NH, and more often than not, rural libraries are staffed only by paraprofessionals. Librarians with [...]
January 9, 2013 – 2:49 pm
Yesterday was a busy day at my local library. A recent phone call from a patron began with, “I can’t believe you have only one copy of this book…” He wasn’t talking about the copy on our shelves, but about our virtual e-collection that we share with other libraries in our state (New Hampshire). The [...]
