Category Archives: Skills

Slow Cooking and Library School

March 20, 2013
Julie
– 11:24 am

I have a special relationship with my slow cooker.  It all started when my daughter’s community theater involvement required me to be in the car, rather than behind the stove at meal time. I was not very creative back then, and we had a few standby recipes that I could throw in the pot early in the [...]

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Library Lesson Learned II

December 17, 2012
Sarah Barton
– 3:04 pm

On my way home from the train a few days ago, I ran into a woman who frequents the library where I work. The library stays open until 9 pm two nights per week, and she is almost always there at least one of those nights watching videos and shows on her laptop. I say hi to [...]

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‘Tis the Season to be Reading!

December 15, 2012
Maggie Davidov
– 8:51 am

Indeed! Classes are over. Perhaps  you have a vacation of sorts on the horizon. Whatever shall you do?  Well, I’ll tell you what I’ll be doing. I will be doing some professional development. Wait! It’s not as boring as it sounds. Here’s my rationale: I’m going to a wonderful school that costs a lot of [...]

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And so it is over

December 7, 2012
mayabery
– 2:40 pm

2.5 years at Simmons is officially over for me.  The last project has been submitted, the second practicum binder has been handed in, and I am ready to move on to the next chapter and start my professional life. Last Friday, I went in for a job interview for a maternity leave position, a long-term [...]

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Transferability

November 16, 2012
mayabery
– 4:45 pm

It often amazes me just how transferable the skills I have gained as a school library teacher in training are to the wider world. It brings a measure of comfort to know that should (heaven forbid) I one day find myself struggling to find a position that I will not have a useless degree.  On [...]

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