This panel was very very insightful. The panelists were all recent grads of the University of Washington’s iSchool. They were Alex Berta, Rebecca Blakewood, Ann Glusker, Elizabeth Gould, and Beth Sanderson. Joe Janes and Nancy Gershenfeld professors at the iSchool gave us an intro.
University of Washington was the first school that decided [...]

I’m finally reading Everything in Miscellaneous - and it’s awesome. The irony is that I’m taking a two day subject cataloging class. While the instructor (who is awesome and full of energy) talks about how getting the most specific subject heading is our goal and having things in alphabetical order is good - [...]

It’s finally here - I promised that I’d write this ages ago, but I wanted to get my thoughts in order.
When I started at Drexel a little over a year ago, I was completely panicked! I hadn’t been in school for 5 years and when I graduated last time I had sworn that I [...]

That’s right, the diploma has arrived! I am now a “real” librarian. My only complaint about this piece of paper - well - two complaints. First it’s too big - why is it so darn big? Second, shouldn’t it say “Master of Library and Information Science”?
Anyway, it’s all over, [...]

That’s right - I finally have the results for you. You can browse the survey results on Survey Monkey here, but I don’t feel that that gives you the full picture, so I did a little bit of analysis of my own.
First, I went through and made school names conform to one standard (where [...]

That’s right folks, it’s official. I now have my final grades and am done with library school! I am now an MLIS graduate of Drexel University (and will be paying for the rest of my life). I’ve promised a what I learned in library school post - and it’s coming, I just wanted [...]

I’m working on cleaning up the results for this survey right now (making university names the same, etc) and I’m seeing a few people pointing me to the library websites for their required courses (”You can always look on the schools’ websites for this info.”). I probably need to clarify what I was interested [...]

I have gotten such an amazing response to my little survey on library education that I had to pay for a SurveyMonkey account - which means I’ll probably create a more in-depth survey to really get to the meat of what we’re all learning in library school - keep an eye out.

Lately, I’ve been talking to students at other library schools as well as library staff here as I do a bit of homework for my “What I Learned in Library School” post. I realized that I needed a bit more information so I’ve created a 5 question survey for library students and librarians. [...]

I just called my husband into the room to share in my momentous occasion. I have submitted my final MLIS paper ever!!! That’s right folks, while I do not have my final grades yet, the work is done!!! Now I can come home from work and veg if I want to, I [...]

A post at Tame the Web by Juliette Loebl (an MLIS student) makes me a bit jealous!
I am not tech-savvy. I would never hire myself to design a professional-looking website, or create a complex database. Yet, during the last year and a half, in library school, I have had the opportunity to experiment with new [...]

I have just received my grades for my third term - straight A’s! Now I have one more term (starting on the 25th) and then I’ll have my MLIS! Boy, will that be a relief!

I have submitted all of my finals! That means I have time to read and time to write again Keep and eye out as I catch up on everything I’ve missed.

Homework & Finals Pile
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Lately all I’ve had time to do is write my finals. I have a legal pathfinder, a legal final exam (all essays), a cataloging exam (10 questions), a cataloging project (4 originally cataloged records) and a paper on how to apply six sigma to a library! This [...]

I’ve been talking to a lot of new people lately - students and librarians alike - and in those talks, something has become very clear to me - no one is teaching people the simple techniques to keep up with our profession. I’m not talking about the power user style of keeping up (subscribing [...]

In addition to everything else, I have finished registering for my summer classes - my last term!!
This term I’m taking:

Information Services in Orgs (Info 643)

Library Automation (Info 664)

Medical Bibliography (Info 675)

Should be interesting!

So, spring term starts on Monday! It’s my 3rd of 4 terms and then I’ll have my MLIS!
This term I’m taking:

Managing Information Orgs (Info 640)

Legal Bibliography (Info 681)

Cataloging & Classification I (Info 660)

It’s going to be a pretty heavy workload - but I’m looking forward to it - specifically the management class. Stay [...]

I have written and submitted one term paper and have written and need to edit the other!! It was a productive 4 day weekend.

I have taken off of work for a long weekend to finish my term papers. Starting after work today I will be in serious writing mode (I hope). I’m writing a Review of Literature on Undergraduate Information Seeking Habits when applied to web resources - not sure what the title will be. [...]

Yikes! I just noticed that one of the classes I was going to take is either full or not offered anymore - so now I’m in a pickle.
This was what I wanted for summer:

Managing Information Orgs (Info 640)

Information Services in Orgs (Info 643)

Library Automation (Info 664)

But I’m going to have to change that because I’m [...]

Back in July I plotted out my entire MLIS program - but it looks like one of my spring classes has been canceled. So now I need to pick between these - what do you think?

INFO 681 - Legal Bibliography
Introduces the fundamentals of legal research, including sources and research strategies.

INFO 622 - [...]

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That’s right - my Digital Libraries professor has asked my classmates to read my blog post on The New Shape of Knowledge (my summary of David Weinberger’s presentation from KMWorld) - that’s pretty darn neat!!
On a side note - I have also published this post in the DUSLA (Drexel University SLA Student Chapter) Newsletter that [...]

That’s right - flu’s gone, homework is up to date - and I’m going to stay on top of things this week!!

This happened last term too - the first week is what I’m going to call “Panic Week”. The term started on Monday and I’ve been running around like a Chicken with it’s head cut off trying to get into the swing of things - I’ll probably be quiet for a bit - but I [...]