Today is Thanksgiving Day.  There are many things for which I am grateful.  One of them is being able to be in school and to be doing well. I am grateful for my health and my professors.  I am grateful for my loved ones and the people who supported my application to apply to school.  When I think of all the infrastructure that must be in place for me just to get to and from class every week and for the amazing human mind and body that is intact and functioning I am doubled over with thanksgiving to a God that/who is evident in my life daily.

Education is very important. Through colleges and universities the wealth, values and principles of the culture are passed from one generation to the next.  The work and the effort to create a college or university is staggering and to have it up and running is sheer determination and focus. So I give  thanks for the people who work and and run the college-from the janitors and the sales clerks to the president and his staff, not to forget the professors. Let us not forget the students without whom there would be no generation to whom to pass the knowledge.

I was privileged to attend Howard University College of Liberal Arts and the College of Medicine. I am grateful to have attended and to have been graduated.

I am privileged to be attending Queens College and am grateful to be here.

I am plodding along with the health sciences library scenario assignment. I am at the  typing up phase.  The assignment is challenging and fun.

I just viewed the Special Libraries Association website.  It was packed full of useful information.  I would like to participate in several development seminars, which I may do if they are free.

Today, I attended the 145th annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island and ran into the librarian of the library of the Mercer School of Theology.  I had met him several times before when I was at the school for meetings.  He seemed particularly enthusiastic when I told him that I was in library school and he invited me to volunteer.  What a surprise!  Of course, I plan to take him up on it.

I am finally getting my sea legs, that is, getting used to the Queens College village and in the swing of being a student again.  I have discovered that when I have an assignment that I should begin work on it as soon as I get home and not wait to work on the assignment “later.”  My commute is one and a half to two hours-two trains and a bus.  I do a lot of reading on the train, including assigned readings.  I find that if I work to keep up on the readings my life and my capacity to function in class are enhanced. I have a tendency to write in my books, so I could never resell them.  I keep them and they become useful references when I decide to explore a topic.

The hunt for money for tuition and conference expenses is ongoing. I get the feeling that post graduate librarians are always seeking money for projects and conference expenses.

It has been 35 years since I first set foot on a college campus and I find it even more exciting and stimulating than I did then. Of course, being back on the college campus brings back many wonderful memories.  As an older student, I find the younger people young and beautiful.  Their ideas are often innovative and provocative.

This blog is about my pursuit of a career in medical/ health sciences librarianship.