I’ve been meaning to give an updated run-down of the classes I’m taking and my general opinions of them, but school and life and bronchitis (yeah, again, but I’m on the mend) got in the way, like they do. To make it up to you–and because I am waiting for…
My first class of the spring semester happens today. It is not 12pm-3pm, as I had mistakenly remembered, but 3pm-6pm. (So, in order to leave myself one weekday for doing homework, I think I may move my internship hours from Tuesdays to Mondays.) I have a cold and am considering…
I’ve started a few posts in my head, but only today did I realize that I didn’t, you know, post any of them. It turned out that I didn’t have the kind of down-time I expected to have during the break: classes (and projects) ran until the 11th, work kept…
I made a schedule change, folks. See, my backup plan, should I end up hating academia in five years (look, I know I would like to be some flavor of academic librarian, certainly, but I’m also aware that I have yet to fight my way through real-life academic politics; Masters…
I am, for all intents and purposes (give or take a moderated post to a discussion board or three), done with LIS 2700, Pitt’s not-so-briefly-named “Managing Libraries & Information Systems & Services.” I have a “management portfolio” to show for it–an environmental scan, needs assessment, budget, staffing plan, and business…
I’ve been pretty bad about posting my class essays up here, for a number of reasons. One of the big ones is that they are so specific to the questions, and I make kind of lazy references to books that I don’t expect everyone on my blogroll to have read.…
For folks in 2670, I hope this helps. For folks outside of 2670, I recommend against using Greenstone Digital Library software, but if you find that you have to, I hope this helps you install it, at least for local use. If I find any good tricks for using Greenstone,…
So, I picked my classes: LIS 2002: Retrieving Information (required core course, blended format)LIS 2405: Intro to Cataloging and Classification (online only course)LIS 2690: Information Visualization (blended format)LIS 2879: Academic Librarianship (blended format) You’ll notice two things about them. One, it’s a pretty fun and interesting set of things to…
I feel like I’m neglecting this blog–SNL videos and class assignments aside–but there hasn’t been much to say: I’ve been sick for about a month (bronchitis and a never-ending cold), which has left me completely drained and not really feeling up to the time, energy, and brainpower requirements of my…
I loved the following quote (from our Week 8 Readings): Google has taught us, quite powerfully, that the user just wants a search box. Arguments as to whether or not this is “best” for the user are moot—it doesn’t matter if it’s best if nobody uses it. Moreover, as both…