The emailbag

Item 1. A librarian graduate of an Information School (as opposed to a Library School) responded to my query about required courses. In her school, the required courses spanned the various specialties offered in the school, only one of which was libraries. This meant the required courses were highly theoretical. Not at all what I suspect Gorman had in mind for courses that would prepare librarians for work in the field. I hadn't fully understood the objections some librarians have to I-schools. Mizzou's department doesn't use the L-word in its title (School of Information Science and Learning Technologies) and offers an educational technology degree, but the library half of it is most definitely a library school.

Item 2. A friend of mine, who graduated from my library school almost a year ago, responded to my post about journal reading. Her breadth of reading material has increased now that she works in a library that has routing copies of professional journals. Something to look forward to....

Item 3. I am less emotionally involved with the tragedies in Pakistan and Central America than I was for the hurricane damage on the Gulf shore or for the tsunami damage in Southeast Asia. I feel bad about that. It's probably due to my current busy schedule or to some kind of overload--either way it's a shame. On the other hand, in spite of all the angst, the only practical help I have offered so far is money. I researched charities after the tsunami to decide where to make a donation and I selected AmeriCares. AmeriCares helpfully sent me email to ask if wanted to respond to this new tragedy in the same way, so I will.

Item 4. It hasn't been officially released yet, so I'll link to details later, but I'm on a team for ALA's Adopt a Library program and we just learned what library we will be assisting. I'm really looking forward to doing something that requires something of myself instead of just sending more money.     #

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