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Why a miscellanea page?


          I'm including this miscellanea page, because I didn't feel like certain information fit within the context of other areas but was still important, and I wanted to share a few of my hobbies to give everyone a flavor for who I am. You can take this page or leave it, but I'm keeping it in. Enjoy!

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Courses I've Taken

  • LIS 500: Introduction to the Life Cycle of Information
  • LIS 507: Preservation of Library Materials
  • LIS 510: Information Behavior
  • LIS 520: Reference, Resources and Collections
  • LIS 530: Introduction to Information Organization
  • LIS 531: Catalogs, Cataloging and Classification
  • LIS 533: Advanced Cataloging
  • LIS 536: Indexing and Abstracting
  • LIS 540: Systems Analysis, Architecture and Information Retrieval
  • LIS 545: Introduction to Programming: JAVA
  • LIS 546: Networking and Systems Administration
  • LIS 550: Information in Social Contexts
  • LIS 551: Intellectual Freedom
  • LIS 560: Information Literacy, Teaching and Training
  • LIS 570: Research Methods
  • LIS 580: Management
  • LIS 587: Management of Library Automation Systems
  • LIS 590: Directed Fieldwork: Washington Center for the Book
  • LIS 598: The Information Industry
  • LIS 598: Reader's Advisory Service
  • LIS 600: Independent Study: Book Review Writing

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iFreaks: matinee movie club

          Growing up I was always around cable television, and from a very young age I was exposed to independent and foreign films of all sorts. But I didn't see movies like this in the theater too often, because Cincinnati's theater scene was mostly popular national level cinemaplexes. There were only two major independent theaters, and during my time in the city one of them closed.

          So, much to my surprise I discovered Seattle's independent theater chain: Landmark Theatres. And I dove right in. I volunteered as an usher and ballot counter at both the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival. After a couple of months I was going to see all kinds of movies by myself, at least once or twice a week, and so I decided to get other students in on the act. I sent an open email to the chat list and solicited names of people who wanted to either a) go see a movie every weekend or b) recieve the email about what we're going to see every weekend. There were over twenty people on the list, and to manage things I developed a small website for the iFreaks.

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Trivia Night at the CIP

          Midway through my first year at the University of Washington Information School the College Inn Pub began hosting a trivia night. There are three round of 25 questions and topics can vary from "Starts with 'Q'" to "Astronomy." Teams can contain up to four people, and entry cost $4.00 per round. A team made up of Information School graduate students mixed in with the occasional English Ph.D. student here and there pitted mind against mind for money and beer. Of course a team of Librarians and Information Professionals is bound to get along fairly well at trivia, and teams Infosmack!!! and Hell's Librarians usually won 1 or 2 games out of 3.

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Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition

           Before moving to Seattle I was involved in a two year Werewolf campaign. Moving away from that story was really difficult, but early in my second year of graduate school I turned back to role playing games with some of my friends from the English department. We began playing Warhammer 40K, but being terribly unskilled in large scale military strategy and not knowing the futuristic weaponry my armies were decimated every time. After a while we turned to Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, because the third edition manuals had finally been released. Recently we've: Fallen through a planar gate that led straight to the first layer of hell, Forged the river of blood, Entered another gate that led to a city on the inside of a Torus shaped planet, Went on a mission to Asgard to acquire three flaming yule logs, Destroyed a snooty elvish restaurant when we brought the yule logs back through the women's bathroom, and Spent days and days poring over books in the hall of records with the gnome librarians. Currently we are on the verge of death in a dwarven stronghold overrun by orcs and twisted dwarves, and all we want is a book that tells us about the plane we came from so we can go home.

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What I've Learned about random pages

  • Random pages help to provide a bit of personality to what might be an otherwise dreary website.

  • People have lives outside their profession that are just as worthy and valuable an experience as what they do in their profession.

  • Experience points in Dungeons and Dragons don't count for anything on a resume. Unless you're applying for a job at a gaming company.

  • That I just love being in Hell's Librarians.


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