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Please don’t feed the monkeys!

By petercoyl | Published: September 3, 2010
Above the bookdrop slot next to my desk is a large glass window looking out onto the stairwell landing.  I told a co-worker that sometimes I feel like its a zoo or a prison where people can pass a food tray or what not.  He laughed and then the other day I found that another [...]
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School days

By petercoyl | Published: August 27, 2010
We spent the last week with the primary school teachers here at school.  We has our meetings in the Library and the returning teachers were all impressed with the progress I made  I really am not sure I have made much progress but the sentiment was appreciated.  I shifted the books once so I could [...]
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Month one

By petercoyl | Published: August 20, 2010
I have successfully moved the circulation desk.  The previous Librarian had the circulation desk in a spot that was not close to the door or the book drop, so I moved it today.  It just makes more sense to have it by the door so I am right there and can greet people, etc.  I [...]
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Arrival

By petercoyl | Published: July 31, 2010
I have arrived in Taiwan safe and sound.  I found an apartment that is owned by a lady who has 2 daughters at the school.  It is new and I’ll be the first person to live in it.  On the bottom 2 floors will be her tea and flower show, and above me are 2 [...]
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Where I am going (in 3 weeks!)

By petercoyl | Published: July 9, 2010
In 3 weeks I’ll be back in Taiwan. I lived there for a year before studying Chinese and teaching English. I blogged about my time there on my old blog. Last time I was in Taipei, the capitol. This time I’ll be about an hour southwest in a city called Hsinchu and I’ll be the [...]
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ALA Annual in DC

By petercoyl | Published: July 8, 2010
I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, DC 2 weeks ago. It was a very informative and educational and I am quite glad I attended. I was able to go to sessions on nurturing early reading habits, including programs that could be done at school and at [...]
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SLA New Orleans

By petercoyl | Published: June 19, 2010
I had the honor of being given one of this years Knower Awards from the Philadelphia Chapter of the Special Library Association. [you can read about it here] At the Conference the opening session was given by Mary Matalin and James Carville. They spoke mostly on how the diminishing number of media outlets is actually [...]
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The future is now? Why Libraries need to offer eBooks

By petercoyl | Published: June 9, 2010
eBooks. The wave of the future. The end to publishing as we know it. Blah, blah, blah. I didn’t believe it when it first started in the late 90′s with the first eBooks. I was working at a Library that bought 6 of them and loaded them with genre related materials (one was SciFi, the [...]
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Fall programing update

By petercoyl | Published: June 8, 2010
Beginning in early August, “Adventures of a Guybrarian” will no longer be published in the United States. This week I was offered and accepted a position as the Librarian at the Hsinchu International School in Hsinchu, Taiwan. For those of my readers who are at this moment thinking, “Is he crazy?!” I can assure you [...]
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Why Louisiana should close its Library Science School

By petercoyl | Published: May 27, 2010
Louisiana State University has proposed to close its graduate School of Library and Information Science. Among the reasons people oppose this action is the face it is the only program in the state. [See this article.] What opponents don’t take into account is the current job market. I have been looking for a job for [...]
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