1) everyone knew what each member brought to the group. Sometimes this was because we’d already worked together, but more often it’s because we took the time to sit down and say what we’re good at (copy editing, powerpoint, public speaking, etc.).

2) everyone knew exactly what was expected of each group member. This sort of transparency helps a lot with accountability.

In all, the group work in library school has been pretty great. Everyone pulling their weight, getting things done on time, etc. Different groups have different personalities, of course, but they’ve all been pretty highly functional.

And like Jennifer, I cannot speak to a course from another school.

I’m sure I’ll probably keep on accumulating as well. I wonder how many more books I could read if I spent less time looking for new ones….

Thanks so much for visiting !

I do have books that have been waiting years to be read, unfortunately. I’m making a more concerted effort this year to read more books in and around all the articles I read. These are on my “Library of Candidates” shelf for this year:

Eli Hirsch – Dividing Reality
Herodotus – The Histories
Nicholas Ostler – Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alain Renaut – The Era of the Individual: A Contribution to a History of Subjectivity
Hofstadter- Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Elio Frattaroli – Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Becoming Conscious in an Unconscious World
Tocqueville – Democracy in America
David Riesman – The Lonely Crowd
Todorov – Hope and Memory: Lessons from the 2oth Century
Ellul – The Technological Bluff
Buschman – Dismantling the Public Sphere
Erik Davis – TechGnosis: myth, magic + mysticism in the age of information
The Information Society Reader (Routledge Student Readers) ed. Frank Webster
Brown & Duguid – The Social Life of Information
Dumas – The Three Musketeers

Clearly, I won’t to get to all of them.