Category: classes

First Week of Classes, Complete!

Published on August 29, 2008

Now that I’ve been to all of my classes once–and work a few times–I have some thoughts to post. First off, let me just say, for the sake of any engineers who come to this blog wanting to find out about switching into Library Science, it is wonderful to know,…

A real, honest-to-goodness use for this blog

Published on August 25, 2008

A word of warning: scattered in amongst my other posts will be some assignment-fulfilling text–responses to assigned readings and requests for clarifications of lecture material in my Digital Libraries course, LIS 2670. I’ll try to provide enough context that my normal readers aren’t lost and can find something interesting in…

First Day of School

Published on August 25, 2008

I used to love the first day of school, as a kid. Not really the second day or onward, mind, but the first was always pretty fun. There I was, with some brand new school gear, meeting up with a bunch of people I hadn’t seen since the end of…

Ends and beginnings

Published on August 7, 2008

I’ve changed around my class schedule. I think it’s pretty solid, though I may still want to change sections for one class.Â LIS 2000: Understanding Information LIS 2001: Organizing InformationLIS 2670: Digital LibrariesÂ LIS 2700: Managing Libraries (the real name is longer) You’ll notice there are only four classes there. I…

Less than a month!

Published on July 28, 2008

A month from today, I’ll be completing my first week of school. Assuming my schedule doesn’t change when I meet with my advisor, Thursday is going to be my roughest day–actually, you could say it’ll be my only regularly scheduled rough day–with six straight hours of class. This seems unavoidable,…