Category Archives: Faculty

Papers already? Didn’t we just start class?

September 22, 2010
Jason Homer
– 10:22 am

Luckily Library Science (much like my undergrad, English) does not involve that many written tests. I will take writing a 10-page paper over taking a 2-page test any day! But if you are not in love with writing papers like me, this fact may freak you out. To that I would say: “Never you fret [...]

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Age in the classroom is irrelevant

April 27, 2010
Sasha Nyary
– 10:23 am

A word about being an older student: ItÂ’s not a big deal. My friends ask about this from time to time, and my experience is, in short, that the classroom is ageless. IÂ’d say most of my classmates at GSLIS West, at any rate, are in their late 20s to early 40s, and I gather [...]

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The Key…

March 10, 2010
Karen Bingham
– 4:12 pm

Like I mentioned before, did I mention it before?? Well, if not, here goes… I am a proud (and loud) lover of libraries from the wide open skies of Montana. I grew up there enjoying the mountains and open space. One of the things I had to get used to when I moved here to [...]

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Thanks for all your amusing and informative anecdotes, GSLIS profs

February 19, 2010
Jane Schlech
– 11:52 am

I’m in my fifth and last semester at GSLIS, and looking back on my classes I realize that the things that have stayed with me all stem from my professors’ real life experiences. I was skeptical about graduate school, and worried that it would just be so much abstract theory. I didn’t want to be [...]

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