All your FACES are belongs to ME!!!
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I so miss Shotaro and Philip... Thanks for the image. :castlerock:
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.
You and I both know your real dream house would probably be filled with nothing but book shelves.:laugh:
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 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.
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...
How the hell...
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.