Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread IX: The 24-Hour Version (Fifth Time)

Philosophy is always useful. Lucrative, no. Useful, yes.

PhD = Piled higher and Deeper.

Same with the MBA. A lot of MBA fairs offer guides on how to ensure you'll get a good ROI from the MBA tuition and costs.

My master's is an MLIS. I love (and by love, I mean hate) when people ask "Do you really need a master's degree for that?".

People just don't appreciate that other fields of study can require years of training and experience.

My master's hood has lemon velvet and green and gold satin. It looks like some sort of advertisement for Sprite.

Maybe they can put you in a commercial that goes, "Sprite makes you smarter."

By the hoary hosts of hogath ...

yes! I was filing recently and had to use the dewey decimal system.

it is great once you get used to it but ... i have trouble when something could be in two places ... like "British History" ....

so I just find wherever has more room.

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like their jobs or degrees are so important. (shows how little they know about the subject)

someone asked me recently about my degree and said he didnt even know there was such a thing. i almost said "that dosnt surprise me" or "should you?" or something horribly pithy because he was a stump.

there are PhDs in library science too, most librarians at university (i think) have them and have to do research and publish the same way a professor does.

omg dont get me started library science is so great!

frankly, i think every academic needs a strong back ground in library science ..... mmm hmmm ...

bleh! this makes more sense with an MBA but i still find it gross.

everything dosnt have a monetary value and economics isnt the most important thing. great programs that contribute to ... human knowledge and culture .. have to waste time with beuracratic marketing ...

grrr!

Glad to see you're a library fan, Peebz.

PhDs in library science are kind of rare. Most often folks who have them teach in library science programs or are directors of large library systems.

Speaking of libraries, my wife often borrows digital books from the local library to read on her Kindle. Often (especially with popular books like the Song of Ice and Fire series), she has to go on waiting lists until she can get those books. My question, Rocks, is: if they're digital, why would there be ANY waiting list at all? Couldn't the library lend as many copies as a digital book as it wanted to, theoretically?

My theory is that this is to keep the basic library tenet of loaning out one copy at a time (unless there are multiples) and possibly a deal they have with digital booksellers to insure that limited copies available will still encourage people to buy their own. I figure there's something in the digital book-lending program that allows it to be loaned to one reader at a time that can't be overridden.

Any insight Rocks can give regarding this would be interesting to me!

It's actually a licensing issue. The library only owns so many licenses for the electronic texts and so only a certain number of patrons may access a given e-book at a time. It's all part of an evil plot from publishers to make more money.

Money makes the world go round... the only reason my family wants me to get an MBA is so I can get higher-ranking jobs with higher salaries. Not that it's a bad thing, but if I do get a Master's I'd want it to be in something that really interests me.

My father told me I had a choice of two careers: doctor or lawyer. I told him I didn't want either. I don't think "librarian" crossed his mind.

Rocks are you a crazy organizer in your daily life?

'cause I am!

I once organized all my comics by title and issue number ... but not subject ....

I'm an example of organized chaos. I write things down, but my notes are ordered such that only I can understand them!

I organized my cookbooks last weekend.

The papers on my desk, on the other hand...

Perhaps we're the type, LT, who only organize the things that are truly meaningful to us?

I don't often buy books. I usually check them out of the library. Cookbooks, on the other hand, I buy because I use them again and again. My current favorite is Peg Bracken's I Hate to Cook Book. It's held up remarkably well for a cookbook from the early '60s.

My go to is Betty Crocker's ... damn that is some stable s&^t!

I do a lot of my cooking from Cooking Light magazine. I've been subscribing for over 14 years and there have been some great recipes in there, and every month, here come some new ones.

Lately I've been organizing "out" the older issues.

Betty Crocker was not a real person. She was invented by General Mills (also not a real person).

Duncan Hines, on the other hand, was a real person.

I either just download recipes onto my IPOD, or make/customize from scratch. My favorite part of cooking is taste-testing as I go along.