I probably have nothing deep or thought-provoking to say today. It’s lovely out here, on the Mall or the Cut–whatever CMU calls the area between the UC and Purnell–and the drama students are providing me with immense entertainment. I like this almost autumn-like weather; my energy level is highest at…
So, I set out to chronicle my experiences in library school, with an eye to my background in engineering, because, you know, there aren’t a million blogs about that out there already. (Maybe not the engineering part!) Having that goal, I feel like I should make some effort to write…
Overall themes: interoperability, modularity. A Framework for Building Open Digital Libraries has me totally sold on the ODL concept and on the extension of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI_PMH) to build every future Digital Library ever. I think it’s a great idea; interoperability is a desirable…
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 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…
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…
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,…