LIBR 500

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The Journey Of My Life

• LIBR 500
• Foundations of Information Technology
• Prepared by Mei Li
• Mei_at_interchange.ubc.ca
• May 23, 2002

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The Land of My Ancestors

• I was born and raised in China
• My life has felt as if I were climbing the Great
  Wall of China

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The roots of the education are bitter but the
fruit is sweet- Aristotles

• Nanjing University was where I received my first
  Bsc degree in Paleontology
• I studied fossils as a guide to the history of
  life on earth
• Learning from the Fossil Record, scientists have
  been able to piece together the fascinating story
  of our dynamic Earth for the past 3.5 billion
  years.

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Nowadays, One Degree Is Not Enough

• University of North London where was I got my
  Postgraduate Diploma Courses in Library and
  Information Studies
• Concepts I learned
• AACR2
• DDC
• MARC
• LCSH

--images from UNL Website
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Wisdom comes more from living than from
studying. - Native
American Proverb
Iworked in Nanjing University after my graduation
I had worked in Imperial College Library for 5
years
- Ranked as the 3rd university in China
- Ranked as the 3rd university in Britain
--image from IC Libraries Website
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Best Libraries To Work
Hong Kong University
University of British Columbia
- Largest Asian language material library in
Canada
- Largest Academic library in Hong Kong
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Internet Era
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A traveler without observation is a bird
without wings.-Saadi

• Traveling is one of the most relaxing leisure
  in my life. You get to see different places and
  different living styles.
• Here are a few memorable places I have
  visited

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I cannot live without books- Thomas Jefferson
Here are my favourite authors and websites
about them

• Zhang Ailing
• Famous female writer
• Lin Yutang
• Chinese-American writer, translator, and
  editor
• Margaret Mitchell
• Gone with the wind
• Roald Dahl
• Boy and going solo

• http//www.wooster.edu/chinese/Chinese/courses/chi
  nese_youth/writer/zhang_ailing.html
• http//www.encyclopedia.com/searchpool.asp?target
  _at_DOCTITLE20Lin20Yutang
• http//www.filmsite.org/gone.html
• http//www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/3140/
• http//www.roalddahlfans.com/index.php

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The Journey Goes On

• This is not the end. It is not even the
  beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the
  end of the beginning.
• Winston Churchill