School librarians are wizards

I enjoyed reading Chapter 9 about the reference interview. To sum it up I wrote a Classified ad:

Wanted - A well-read person with friendly, approachable personality (positive, respectful, encouraging), an attentive listener,knows as much about the students as possible, knows library collection thoroughly, is knowledgable about current, past and future events, knows hundreds of age- appropriate websites , promotes careful and concise work at every stage of inquiry in research, keeps communication open and flowing, and.."maintains curent and in-depth knowledge about the complete range of educational and informational materials, has a knowledge of the resources -- general, reference, and community. Someone who will patiently instruct students how to 1)access information efficiently and effectively 2)evaluaate information critically and completely adn 3) use information accurately and completely. In spare time will read as many books as possible so as to be a reader's advisor. After hours, must shelve books, tidy up the library, attend faculty meetings, be an active participant in community affairs in order to market the library and its services.
Get the idea? We need to be wizards. I am glad I can take this class while I'm not a librarian. I have a little extra time to investigate web sites and read books.
Is there anyone who is challenged with our assignments on Skype or Flickr. If at anytime y'all would like to meet as a group and play around with this..let me know. Two or three heads are better.

Can this be for real?

Four long weeks of computer anarchy and I'm finally able to start blogging. Yeah! I feel like I've pushed through the barriers I've had. Mentally, when you've been burned and had such trauma at the keyboard, it takes courage to try again. The frustration level was extremely high.

I will begin by posting my lifelong learning habits.
1. I have always loved collecting knowledge about life, the world, people,..you name it. I pick up anything and everything printed, when I get a minute. I have books in EVERY room of my house. I have always loved school. Traveling is a passion; I feel it is twice the education as sitting in a classroom.
My strengths would be: a)Accepting responsibility for my own learning. No problem here. No one but me is going to care if I learn or not. b)Creating my own toolbox. I have files of things to help me. c)Teaching or mentoring others..and d)Having confidence in myself as a competent, effective learner. I am 56-years-old and I have to use more tools than ever to retain what I learn. There's so much in my brain. Also, I am a visual learner; I can't just read about it. Over the years, I have learned what I have to do and what kind of learner I am.

My weaknesses are:a) b)Play. I do forget to take time to play. Sometimes I'm too tired to play. c)Begin with the end in mind. I would do well to write down small-term goals for the day and work hard to accomplish them. I'm sure it would help me to say,"No," when I get requests that pull me off my destination. b) I enjoy looking up things on the computer. I would like to use technology to my advantage but have much to learn.

Habits that come naturally to me are: a)View problems as challenges. At my age, I realize I just have to tough it out and gain whatever knoweldge comes from the challenge.