Big 10 Mascots parody “Shake It Off”
I started volunteering with INeedALibraryJob.com, a website devoted for and run by (mostly) library and information science professionals, about a year ago as an assistant to the Greater New York City page editors.
My volunteer responsibility were checking a number of NYC-oriented job websites for new postings every week. As I was amidst my own job search, I wanted to help others. Earlier this past Summer I moved up as an assistant page editor and landed my own job. I check a greater number of websites every day and I write job hunting-focused blog posts for the website. So far I have written…
More to come in the months ahead!
Story behind my staff picture: when the head editor asked for a “landscape-oriented picture” with my head in the upper portion, all I had is a picture from NYC Comic Con with some Power Rangers. Hardly a professional portrait, but it works.
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Jennifer Government is a dystopian novel set in an alternate reality where most nations are controlled by for-profit corporate entities and there is limited government political power.
I read this when I was about 14 or 15 — it was on sale at Walden’s in the mall. The book wasn’t exactly groundbreaking or of “that high of quality.” And I don’t remember ever detail of the story, except this concept where schools and students were sponsored by different companies; like the McDonald’s School where students wore uniforms in the colors of the company.
So, I am deeply fascinated when I see articles like these:
How Target is infiltrating public schools to build customers for life
Google wants to save our schools — and hooks a new generation of users
How McDonald’s and corporate america are bringing internet access to rural america
Before I left the library, I had one final display — Summer Jams. I think this was the least-interesting and picked-over display of the summer, and I don’t really blame the patrons. It was a vain attempt to try to get the music CDs and some of our culinary DVDs.
Cassidy B. Charles