[Editor's Note: For Liz's loyal readers -- you may be interested in knowing that she, along with Jennifer O'Keefe, one of our other librarians, have published their first scholarly article which describes the historic archives we have at the Stephen B. Luce Library. Check out the summer issue of Metropolitan Archivist pp 26-27. Congrats Liz and Jen! Now on to our regular program...]
Whoever said “the only constant is change” must have been
a sailor. In an attempt to get back into
the swing of things after yesterday’s Sunday at Sea, cadets were mustered after lunch for dress inspection. Special events may arise while we’re in
Gibraltar which call for dressing up, so everyone needed to show that they’ll
be ship-shape in no time flat. This
includes wearing a combination cover with the proper seal of Maritime College
and their rank, shoulder bars, insignia, white shirt (no wrinkles), black pants
(no wrinkles either), and highly polished leather shoes.
I’d like to mention two cadets who stood out in
particular today: Cadet John Lovell, who is looking forward to Gibraltar for
his first experience (and food!) in an overseas country, and Cadet Theo Greene
who just celebrated his 21st birthday.
For the library, I gave my first Information Literacy session at sea. OK, you might ask yourself -- what the heck is that? In a nutshell, information literacy is instructing students (or in this case cadets) in how to find and assess the best resources for research and study. In this case, I introduced Christian Sweeney's ship business class to the dreaded CFRs (Code of Federal Regulations) to which we have print and electronic access aboard the ship.
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