Do Not Invoke the Wrath of the Librarian

Are they really that bad?

Mariah does not get Scholastic packets anymore, since changing schools - I really miss them. And they don't have library - weird, eh? They do have the book fairs though, once or twice a year during conferences.

I was thinking about how kids get hooked on reading, and I think the monthly Scholastic orders is what really did it for me. I always ordered a couple of books. I still have some of the paperbacks from 2nd and 3rd grade. Hard to believe they lasted so long.

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They don't have a library at her school?!

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To both of you - she is in a k-8 school; the library seems to be used by the k-5 kids only.

The older kids have reference materials and (I think) some rec reading material in the classrooms. I think most research is done on-line though.

But they don't have library time to go and choose a book to read, etc. That just seems wrong to me.

Good question about research materials ... I'll have to ask her.

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It's just a lot of back-breaking work and long hours. The kids love it and it makes quite a bit of money for the media center, so it's worth it (I guess).

No library! How do they do research? Please please don't tell me the Internet. Wrong answer. Online encyclopedia? Subscription database?

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... I do know Wikipedia is not a citable reference source though.

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Yay for that!

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Or that your conference paper is due and you keep getting late recommendations from your supervisor. And remember that it will be on the internet for the rest of your life for people to mock. *twitch*

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*offers tea and sympathy*

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Twitch indeed. Thanks, emmaco, you have made me feel much better about next week. :)

I hope you are not as distraught as the little folks in your fabulous icon. No one would dare mock your paper, I'm sure.

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*belatedly offers Checkers tea* I never thought about how the books got set up for a book fair. You just walked in one day and there they were! :)

I'm worried that I will want to mock it in future years...I disapprove of keeping our research accessible FOREVER on the internet so we can be shamed. Actually, my workplace recently found out that some of our reports are IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY! And some of the them are sooooo not good enough for that. *runs around like icon people*

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hence Megan's request we delete her comments after a month! I can SO understand!

*makes a LARGE pot of tea, for you and Checkers, and offers a side carafe of wine*

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ICON LOVE!

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It makes me feel better looking at it. Checkers hadn't heard of the little saying I think of when I watch it so maybe you haven't either: when in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

The paper is that one I was working on last week - it's about my PhD case study which is a government environmental program. But this paper has STATISTICS in it, which aren't my strength. I foolishly thought it would be good to get feedback at the conference before submitting my thesis but now I wish I had just done something I knew was good! :)

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I think I have heard that before, but it's been a while. Sounds like my philosophy, though. :-)

Sounds like a fascinating subject, though I agree that statistics are no fun at all. (I never even took the math class, for crying out loud.) But I'm sure it will be fine! *encouragement and pom poms and cheers*

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I just submitted it! With a little footnote on the front page "please note this paper represents work in progress" :)

Thanks everyone for tea and cheering. *looks at time and remembers she has to go to Australia Day BBQ*

Sorry for hijacking your comments, Checkers :)

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Oh, no problem. You deserve an Australia Day BBQ after submitting that.

I'm going to show my cultural ignorance again, here. Tell me about Australia Day, please.

from checkers, the ugly American.

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and also sympathy. What's your paper on?

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oh, book fairs! I used to love book fairs, until I went to middle school and my mommy, who volunteered (and coordinated the volunteers) at the elementary school, would never be home during the book fairs, but I'd never get to go anymore.

So I understand both sides of the coin, I think. Anyway, good luck!

(another possible interpretation is that your eye has known subconsciously what you did not: your "readings for the week" in your history class include pages 1-93 in the textbook, along with at least 15-page excerpts from three other readings, and that you should have started three days ago, instead of tonight.)

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That is what conclusions in readings are for :)

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alas for primary sources and papers demanding discussions thereof. ;.;

(but I'll remember that tip for the 93-page reading. XD)

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You, too, have made me feel better, Jade. Thanks. Go read. :)

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*offers sympathy and chocolate*

... and takes away access to chatzy and lj!

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(the above was for Jade, not Checkers or Emma, who of course are much more responsible, being adults and all).

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*looks shifty* That's right. Adults who never procrastinate :)

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...wait, wh--

*access is taken away; buckles down and reads about Savonarola and Thomas a Kempis*

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*goes to take a bubble bath, being the responsible adult she is*

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*goes to take a shower, being the responsbile roommate she is*

:-b

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... Did you see that explosives discussion in Chatzy two nights ago?

Well, I suppose checkers did call the police.

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Or Homeland Security. All that talk of explosives.

Wait, do you think Avian might be in JAIL?

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*sends Get Out Of Jail Free cards to Avian*

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Today I was helping the librarians set up for a book display of all the new nonfiction books for the teachers. I feel your pain-- thought it wasn't that bad I can imagine how it must be to do a whole fair...

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This is funny. We get extra points from the book company if we have a "student crew" but we don't have any student assistants or anything, so I've asked the In School Suspension teacher if I can borrow her delinquents for an hour tomorrow to set it up. They'll probably never misbehave at school again.

*dreams of bossing them around*

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LOL! What was that, rule number 6 of being a librarian, you get to boss everyone around!

Take it, Checkers. Feel the power. ^_^

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Yeah for Power!

Maybe they will pick up a book in sheer self defense and become avid readers.

*pick up a book to read, not throw!*

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*offers cookies*

Is it odd, that in times of stress, everyone begins offering everyone else food? :) I just read Emmaco's comments and realised that really, we have it pretty easy.

I'm listening to your first readaloud chapter (she's about to cut off his hand!) You have a lovely reading voice. :) Completely absent of wrath.

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