I realized I've been in school for almost 6 months now and have not blogged about it ONCE. Probably because it's pretty dull, but maybe I'll share anyway, yes?
I'm in the Library and Information Tech, Accelerated, program here at Seneca College. It's "accelerated" because they took the first 2 semesters and crammed them into one for us, so it's a one year program instead of a two-year program. It's not exactly rocket science, so that's not really as crazy as it sounds. Even condensed, the first 2 semesters worth of classes seemed pretty slow to me. I was worried that with 10+ years of library work under my belt, this would be almost entirely review and therefore incredibly dull for me. Well, it's still pretty dull, but there's also some good, useful stuff. A lot of things that I'd learned on the job, I'm starting to see more of the exact hows and whys of them. Cataloguing, primarily. Nothing has been terribly challenging so far, but it's been less dull than I had feared.
Which isn't to say there aren't many moments of extreme boredom. For instance, probably half of my blog posts have been written during classes in the computer lab (like today's, in a class on blogs of all things). In a week, though, things should get a bit more interesting, at least temporarily. One of our requirements for graduation is to complete 3 different 2-week field placements in different types of libraries, as assigned by the field placement coordinator (we don't get to choose, or there's no way I'd be going where I am for my first placement). It's unpaid, but still, it's like going back to work, and I'm looking forward to that. Even if my first placement is at a Government special library - the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Strategic Planning and Implementation Branch. Woo! It's downtown, too, which is both a plus (I'll have a chance to explore more of downtown) and a minus (I have to take 3 separate subways to get there). I'm going to try to keep an open mind, though - it could be much more interesting than it sounds. I hope. It starts on the 22nd, and lasts 2 weeks, so even if it sucks, it'll only suck for a little while.
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The placement portion sounds awesome. Not so much for you since you've already got so much experience, but for newbies to work at 3 different places in such a short time sounds awesome and really informative.
Learning by doing! What else will those crazy canadians think of.
It's like your b-day wish has come true. Government + library = lots of checking email and all holidays off.
:) Nicole
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