 So one of the greatest assignments I did was during a readers advisory class we had to do a book group and I picked the book for the group and it was a sci-fi romance book and everyone complained and I don't want to read it and then when we did the book group everyone ended up loving it. So it showed me that first impressions weren't everything for Wilkes and I should stick with my gut when it comes to suggesting books from readers advisories. One of the skills from the iSchool program that I did learn was basically cataloging and mark records. I knew nothing of that and I took a cataloging class and I thought mark was pretty simple. It is not and it was a lot in that class that I learned lots of skills I still use now when I'm cataloging at my new library. So I'm glad that I did take that class. I almost didn't because I was like I don't need cataloging I'm not gonna do that kind of librarian and I do need cataloging even though I'm not that kind of librarian I am doing that still as an adult services librarian. One of the books that from I got from iSchool classes was I believe the library 2.0 class our library our teacher wrote the book but it was a lot of resources for 2.0 at the time which right now is way advanced but things I wouldn't have thought to use for libraries that now we all use like Facebook before wasn't really big in libraries back then now it really is Instagram those kind of things and that class got me thinking about like how can we use the TikToks and the discords and the things like that for libraries because I took that class and you know Facebook at the time was not for libraries was for people. I believe CLA has a lot of resources that are good for California librarians and it's also a community. Maybe if you're a new baby librarian you have questions there are veterans that are part of CLA that you can ask questions to They work really closely with the state library and they're always giving you grants and webinars It's a very good resource for any librarian To help do a lot in your community or learn from others. You know, maybe you're stuck on you know I need a program idea CLA has only a lot of program ideas and then you know We have annual conference where we all get together and We're able to learn from each other. The iSchools program being all 100% online Made it unique in the way that I was able to still have a working life and a social life around school When I went to my undergrad obviously I had to go to classes so that cut into time But with iSchool I was able to you know go to work, but still do school work