Seems I may have actually written something intelligible to others, or at least the primary intended recipient, for once. Yay, me! [Other than academic work, which based on grades received I can only surmise that I'm writing intelligibly. Of course, grades could also mean many other things or nothing….]
Joy has updated her lists of MLS student bloggers and recent graduates.
I did, in fact, use Joy’s initial post and my musings to decide to try and focus a bit more in my blog, for now anyway. But it was because Joy’s timing was good (for me), not because she made me think I had to. But, I also decided to stay myself. I am one person who does many different things and has many different interests, but I am not a collection of roles. I am a whole person.
I was not suggesting that Joy was limiting us, but I am happy that she is broadening her "purposes" for the list.
I may use this newfound identification with student bloggers to focus my posts a bit and it sounds like Mark might, too. That can be a good thing. But I would hate for any of us to feel like we somehow needed to represent the group and blogging anything else would be cheating.
Worse, I’m afraid that by listing those purposes, I may have inadvertently discouraged some student bloggers from joining in. … So, I’m thinking I need a broader and simpler mandate. Something like this: to represent the glorious diversity of library and information science student bloggers. [Emphasis mine]
I like that addition to the initial purposes. Because, whether or not you write things that neatly fall into the four initial purposes, we should be celebrating our diversity.
As I said in my response to Joy’s initial post after thinking things through and coming to the conclusion that she had a good idea that was more accurate of myself than I had initially thought:
I guess I just have to admit that Joy is smarter than me.
I still have my concerns, and I’m not really sure what the first group(s) may find in those posts, but they do address schooling from various angles. … And again, I think it is a great idea Joy.
These are the kinds of conversations I enjoy. The ones where we learn from each other and grow in the process. "Thank you Joy!"
