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dream_labyrinthWell,I don't know whether I snore, but this is just to make clear that I am dead tired. But I need to stay awake to watch Six Feet Under.
I rode my bike to town today to go into the library and read some journals. I managed to get through two years of "Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie" (Journal for library science and bibliography). Yeah, it is just as boring as it sounds. OK, this might be a little too hard on poor journal. It is just that I'm not really interested in discussing the Balanced Scorecard for scientific libraries.
As an explanatory note to those unfamiliar with German library system: there is a huge difference between Öffentliche Bibliotheken - public libraries, where you won't get a lot of scientific literature, and Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken - scientific libraries, like university libraries, company libraries, special libraries...
The ZfBB, the journal I mentioned, basically concentrates on the scientific libraries and the Scientific Librarians (that is a degree that requires you to have a degree in another subject first, the top level of librarian hierarchy in Germany). So none of that is really me. However, there were some interesting articles about the RAK and AACR2 (RAK are the German cataloging rules, AACR the Anglo-American). The discussion is whether Germany should switch to AACR2 or keep our own system, which is considered to be more flexible and practical - don't ask me why, cataloging is the most disgusting thing I can imagine in the whole library work. But no matter whether I like it or not, that might be a question in my exam, so I actually feel like I learned something.
But reading through all this and the biking kind of drained me. Maybe I shouldn't have tried to be as fast as that "professional" biker who passed me on the road. Maybe I shouldn't have myself get carried away by the music coming from my portable cassette player (more David Bowie). It is not allowed to listen to music when biking anyway, it's supposed to make you deaf to the noises from the street. Now, if some kid turns up the volume of the radio on Daddy's car, do you think they'll hear anything? So that rule is one I don't follow if I don't feel like it. Haha, I finally discovered the rebel side of me...
I rode my bike to town today to go into the library and read some journals. I managed to get through two years of "Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie" (Journal for library science and bibliography). Yeah, it is just as boring as it sounds. OK, this might be a little too hard on poor journal. It is just that I'm not really interested in discussing the Balanced Scorecard for scientific libraries.
As an explanatory note to those unfamiliar with German library system: there is a huge difference between Öffentliche Bibliotheken - public libraries, where you won't get a lot of scientific literature, and Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken - scientific libraries, like university libraries, company libraries, special libraries...
The ZfBB, the journal I mentioned, basically concentrates on the scientific libraries and the Scientific Librarians (that is a degree that requires you to have a degree in another subject first, the top level of librarian hierarchy in Germany). So none of that is really me. However, there were some interesting articles about the RAK and AACR2 (RAK are the German cataloging rules, AACR the Anglo-American). The discussion is whether Germany should switch to AACR2 or keep our own system, which is considered to be more flexible and practical - don't ask me why, cataloging is the most disgusting thing I can imagine in the whole library work. But no matter whether I like it or not, that might be a question in my exam, so I actually feel like I learned something.
But reading through all this and the biking kind of drained me. Maybe I shouldn't have tried to be as fast as that "professional" biker who passed me on the road. Maybe I shouldn't have myself get carried away by the music coming from my portable cassette player (more David Bowie). It is not allowed to listen to music when biking anyway, it's supposed to make you deaf to the noises from the street. Now, if some kid turns up the volume of the radio on Daddy's car, do you think they'll hear anything? So that rule is one I don't follow if I don't feel like it. Haha, I finally discovered the rebel side of me...
