CM Magazine: From the Editor

________________ CM . . . . Volume I Number XIII . . . . September 8, 1995

From the Editor:
School Days and Some Homework

Our executive assistant, Peter Tittenberger (the guy who designs CM and who you call with technical questions) told me he had a back-to-school graphic that I should write an editorial to justify using. So I began thinking back nostagically to those happy days in Oxford, punting down the Thames, eating cucumber sandwiches, and meeting all manner of eccentrics. But it turned out I was just remembering Brideshead Revisited; on reflection, my own school days were considerably more like The Blackboard Jungle.

So I hope you're all settled in and happy, teachers and students alike; I never was, not until I snuck into the University of Saskatchewan with an adult admissions test, a grade eight diploma, and the faint hope of finding a good date.

A bad school is a prison for young minds; for me, the library was the only escape, which is probably why I have this job today.

So I have a fall assignment for you all to help out; we intend to run more features in CM in the coming year examining professional, social, and literary issues with particular attention to resources schools and libraries can use to address them. Please send in any and all suggestions, and proposals. What would you like to see us look at? Youth Gangs? Forgotten Canadian classics lingering on the shelves? Preparing students for the new economy? We have plenty of room; let's have your ideas.

Have a good year, and as always, send any comments or suggestions to the address beneath my name.

To comment on this title or this review, send mail to cm@umanitoba.ca.

Published by
The Manitoba Library Association
ISSN 1201-9364

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