Aquarius Horoscope for October 07, 2009
Are you postponing taking that next big love step because you're afraid? And are you afraid because everything's not 'perfect'? The stars tell you to snap out of it and stop asking yourself, 'What if?' or you could talk yourself out of a situation that may not be 'perfect,' but is actually perfect for you. You were born to love deeply, so embrace an adventure that has the potential to change your life for the better.
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interesting horoscope today... not that there's any love interest at the moment to apply this one. haha... (insert bitter laugh)
had the first cohort session of the reference module this morning -- showed me a lot about reference that i did not know. drawing from my own experiences, since i've only worked in 2 special libraries, the patrons i've dealt with varied from wanting the direct answer to wanting a more plentiful explanation. mostly, they just wanted to know where something is and how to get there. sometimes i've had to explain how the catalog works, but that's all technical detail. today's exercises showed me that there's a lot about the information world i need to learn.
like refworks. we did an exercise where "users" wanted to know how to do a short bibliography in chicago style. the "librarians" pointed them to refworks as an online tool and towards the end added that there's a print copy available, but seemed to discourage the use of print (saying "it's lengthy" and "digging through") and to use one of the tools like refworks and endnotes. evelyn said we should go as far as to even help them set up a refworks account and show them how to generate a page. i guess i'm more of a traditionalist in this sense and think a book would have been better. however, i suppose in the long run, it would save the patron more time to learn the program and use it for future papers. i'm just wary about relying so much on technology to do our work for us.
BUT this is where i need to learn objectivity and put my biases aside. however, i have to point out, pushing for refworks is also a bias. i have to figure out a way to present both without favoring one or the other.
the other exercise was a question on finding scholarly articles on the recent Iran election. i dont have the knowledge of what databases to use and what actually constitutes a scholarly article so i feel like i kind of fell short on that exercise.
between this session and the next (in two weeks) i have to shadow some reference librarians for 10 hours in various locations. i'm thinking of doing 2 hours each at 5 locations. is 5 too much? maybe 3 places. two seems restricted... i'll have to talk to meg about it either tomorrow or friday. (i still have to finish my pretest and draft a learning contract).
sigh... mayhaps i'm not meant to be a reference librarian? must build some confidence fast...ROAR
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