The working life of a librarian with dreams of being a published author. I write mainly science fiction and fantasy with everything between those two extremes.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Just a quick note
Well I'm in between classes until Thursday and I don't start
my new job until next week so I'm hoping to get some writing and some reading
done. I have not written anything on my novel for about two weeks and I'm
feeling bad about that. But I was in very research intensive course with my June
class. The class was basically how to be a research librarian. Not bad but man
now I understand why every librarian I ever asked for help from loved me. We
were given real questions that either the professor who was teaching the class
or what the other professors had really been asked over the course of the years
as librarians. For example one question was this- A GTA comes to you with this
problem. Her professor is writing an article and wants to use a particular
reference. But neither the GTA or the professor know the title of the article,
who wrote, if it was published in a scholarly journal or in a trade journal.
They think that they know what publishing house published the articles but they
are not sure about that. The GTA does have a quote from the article but it may
or may not be right. That was really one of my questions that I had to answer.
I would never ever have walked up to a librarian with that question. I
facepalmed when I finished reading it. I was able to find the article but man
it was a pain in the a$$ mostly mine but a pain none the less. Don't feel too
bad for me but pity my partner because he got to hear all about it, with full
adjectives and very colorfully. He's a great guy with much patience. Well see you next week!
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