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imagine_that) wrote2010-08-09 12:41 pm
imagine_that) wrote2010-08-09 12:41 pm
A Great Professor
I'm sorting through my Simmons papers and notebooks today. And I'm finding that the more I look at them, the more I miss Prof. Allen Smith. I had him only for Reference and Oral History, but he really touched and colored my time at Simmons and my outlook on good library service.
And he was just a genuinely interesting man with passion that showed through in what he did with his life.
An assignment caught my eye where I had written that searching in a particular way was "just a crapshoot." And he wrote next to it, "yes, it is." Gotta love a prof who would not only let you get away with that, but agree with you as well.
(And look at that - a post without a single exclamation point.)
And he was just a genuinely interesting man with passion that showed through in what he did with his life.
An assignment caught my eye where I had written that searching in a particular way was "just a crapshoot." And he wrote next to it, "yes, it is." Gotta love a prof who would not only let you get away with that, but agree with you as well.
(And look at that - a post without a single exclamation point.)