Meghan Ecclestone, Rookie Librarian

A project that was a mere figmant of my imagination, and which came about around pints of beer is now FOR REAL.

The Faculty of Information Quarterly (F/IQ) is live and in the the Internets! I’m pretty excited. This first edition takes on a very diffent format than subsequent ones: We got a bunch of interviews with professors from the Faculty of Information to get their views of our faculty’s recent integration in the “iSchool” caucus – the move from a tradition LIS/Archives school to this new information school format has produced some really interesting insights and discussion. We’re hoping that this faculty-driven content will spark lots of thought and debate from students in the coming editions (students: be sure to submit!!).

Check it out here: fiq.ischool.utoronto.ca

Hooray!

This is an article about me in the Faculty of Information’s alumni magazine, Informed. It was featured back in September, but I only just stumbled across the online version, and thought I would put it up here. It’s pretty great to be credited like this… Sometimes when I find myself fantasizing about buying a one-way ticket to Mexico instead of dealing with the one million assignments I have due this month, I look back on this article and, combined with a stiff drink, I come to my senses.

The text reads as follows and, for the record, that half-marathon never actually materialized. 21 km is like, REALLY far:

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