The Viewing Globe - Seriously? I'm Still Alive?

[dchoc]

I so miss Shotaro and Philip... Thanks for the image. :castlerock:

 

[angelicnoir]

Haha. Well, I guess that's what happens when the bulk of your work experience is gained in different libraries. :laugh:

[hide]Yeah, you nailed it when you mentioned having to deal with the copyright issues. Copyright is like a nightmare. It becomes even more tricky when dealing with databases and distribution of electronic resources. I think that interlibrary loan staff and librarians face the biggest challenge when it comes to navigating the fickle seas of copyright law. They deal exclusively with the distribution of materials that the library very often does not own and articles/books/journals/etc. available online are muddying the waters of what is legal and what isn't. For instance, I know certain academic journals have specific allowances for distribution and copying that some do not. Furthermore, many university libraries have a limit per copyright laws on the number of journal articles and other electronic sources that they can access per year rather than per patron! Madness.

You're also correct about the nature of modern librarians. Modern library professionals are definitely not the librarians of yesteryear, locked into habits and unwilling to change. If anything the modern librarian is more of an information systems specialist than anything else. That's why you'll notice that over the years the Master of Library Science degree has been largely phased out while the Master of Library Information Systems degree is becoming the norm. OCLC, WorldCat, and other cooperatives have changed the face and practice of librarianship across the world...so much so that modern librarianship requires a very high degree of technological proficiency and willingness to adapt new practices. The notion of old librarians shuffling through the card catalog is ancient history! Thank goodness for that because I sure would hate to go through all that trouble.[/hide]

And as an aside, I imagine my dream house to be much the same. Although with my luck I figure I'd end up with something like HAL 9000 rather than JARVIS.

I do want a really old wooden card catalog as a storage unit for random things, though (like origami paper, pens, and actual cards) :3

I'm probably headed in the direction of a masters in library information systems, but I really like working in the children's department in my library~ so, this whole academic sabbatical would be really finding which niche fits me the most by getting all the work experience and see which higher education degree would work. I do find the idea of being the bowels of a library handling information systems pretty freaking sexy; it's like an image straight out of a action thriller movie.

You and I both know your real dream house would probably be filled with nothing but book shelves.:laugh:

That may be true~ :anime: but I want it to be less like Yomiko Readman from Read or Die and more, Belle from Beauty and the Beast (except the rest of the house looks like Addams Family meets Modern Living Magazine~ lol; God, I'm so weird.)

 

[scikaiju]

Then you fit right in, although I like to think we're differently normal lol

 

[Mr. Underachiever]

I don't know. I'm all for the e-book revolution. I've built up a nice digital library of free (legal) textbooks, which is useful since I've sold/rented so many of them over the years. Beats paying upwards of $200 for a single one.

Plus, there are so many books you can buy digitally for under $5.00 because they were self-published. You can't get that with physical books.

 

[Zander Yurami]

WARNING! INCOMING RANT! WARNING! INCOMING RANT!


**** YOU USPS!

I guess all the "DO NOT DROP! FRAGILE!" I put on the damn thing werent good enough........

 

[DoGu]

What about Project X Zone?

I also recommend getting Virtue's Last Reward. For me, that game was 2012 Game of the Year.

I had Kingdom Hearts, and…I thought it was meh.

Fire Emblem comes out this week too, and then there's Project X Zone.

I tried Virtue's Last Reward demo for the ps vita. I wasn't digging it too much. It's probably different playing the 3ds.

Fire Emblem, I don't have any desire to play that game either. There's only a few games where I would buy right away atm.

I wanna play more on my ps vita, but the library is too small. Not very many game I'm into.

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

Suddenly all this talk about a Library Information Systems degrees makes me want to look into them...

I don't know. I'm all for the e-book revolution. I've built up a nice digital library of free (legal) textbooks, which is useful since I've sold/rented so many of them over the years. Beats paying upwards of $200 for a single one.

Plus, there are so many books you can buy digitally for under $5.00 because they were self-published. You can't get that with physical books.

My school still finds asinine ways to charge us money. You want to buy a subscription to a website where your teacher puts your work online? $250!

 

[Demi-Fiend]

WARNING! INCOMING RANT! WARNING! INCOMING RANT!


**** YOU USPS!


I guess all the "DO NOT DROP! FRAGILE!" I put on the damn thing werent good enough........[/quote]

How the hell...

 

[Zander Yurami]

How the hell...

INORITE!?

That part is designed to COME OFF and NOT break if it gets put under too much stress. I KNOW! I MADE THE DAMN THING!


Can you tell I am a little upset?


I have the guy shipping it back to me to fix it.

 

[Dark Kabuto]

I tried Virtue's Last Reward demo for the ps vita. I wasn't digging it too much. It's probably different playing the 3ds.

Fire Emblem, I don't have any desire to play that game either. There's only a few games where I would buy right away atm.

I wanna play more on my ps vita, but the library is too small. Not very many game I'm into.

Based on everything I'm reading, the 3DS version seems to be better anyways.