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Electronics Arts’ cellphone librarian | Technology | Los Angeles Times [via] Sounds like a fun job. Do you need a MLA for that?

One of the reasons I decided to go to school Full time in person and not by distance is the opportunity to join associations for further exposure to the industry and of course, networking. One of the activities set up by the SLA Student chapter this week was a real highlight: a tour of the [...]

It’s taken two weeks instead of one to get used to the ischool schedule. Due to some class size issues, I moved just about 75% of all my classes this term around on Friday of last week. So, this week, it was like week 1 again for me trying to check out my courses; getting [...]

School does not expect us to buy computers for school or buy specific software, unlike those in the MBA program During my undergraduate program, I had a computer, but it was a PC. It was used almost more for irc and email than school papers. Most of what I studied in school consisted of pages [...]

[via] IT competencies for metadata librarians I find these particular quotes very intriguing and exciting: Question 1: What are the IT competencies for metadata librarians? • Metadata librarians should know XML. • Relational database design: may not have to be an Oracle programmer, but should understand the structure, and be able to form queries • [...]

I’ve been keeping this some what under wraps for a while. At first because I didn’t want to jinx myself. Then it’s because it doesn’t seem quite real yet. For those who friended me on facebook has been seeing some updates, and of course, I have told people in person. But for the official announcement [...]