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Breaking the Mould

Breaking the Mould

Sophie Bury, Business Librarian & Head Bronfman Business Library Published Friday Nov. 23, 2012 My name is Sophie Bury and I’ve been at York University since May 2003 and boy has time flown since then! My role at York during the past nine years or so has primarily been one of business librarian. I love […]

Confessions of a recovering journalist

Confessions of a recovering journalist

Carey Toane, Business Reference Librarian Published Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 My name is Carey, and I have database envy. Or rather, I did, before I started working as a reference librarian at Bronfman. I haven’t always been a librarian, you know. In my past life, I was a journalist. Aside from the occasional freelance newspaper […]

Getting to know you…

Getting to know you…

Handshake by Aidan Jones, via Flickr It's a very ancient saying, But a true and honest thought, That if you become a teacher, By your pupils you'll be taught. Anyone? Anyone? No? Le sigh. Okay, well that was from The King and I. Wait… how about this? ♪ ♫Getting to know you, Getting to know […]

April is the cruellest month

April is the cruellest month

Some of you may recognize the title of this blog as being the first line in T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land.  For the rest of you - does this line resonate with your current condition? I can always feel the shift in the atmosphere as March ends and we move to April.  Students […]

What happened to the fall semester?

What happened to the fall semester?

I am horrified to see that I haven't posted anything since last May!  Is anyone still bothering to visit this blog? It's not that things haven't been happening but rather that too much is going on and I seem to be continually playing catch-up.  But enough whining on my part.  Let me up-date you. Xuemei […]