I can hardly believe it. When I started pursuing my MLIS I thought it would take forever. Now I’m signing up for my final semester and planning to graduate in December. My final “real” course will be on information needs relating to consumer health topics. Not something that really flips my pages, but two of the [...]
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I just realized I’ve written two almost identical posts in the past week or so, both talking about my Virtual Reference class. I wish I could say that’s abnormal for me, but lately I do stuff like this all the time. It’s called life overload, and keeping you on your toes to make sure you’re [...]
My summer grad school course is on Virtual Reference. I’m hoping that’ll be handy working on the reference desk this summer and beyond. I’m assuming the course will cover things besides Wikipedia, Snopes.com and Cute Overload, three of the sites which have become my fact Bibles. I’m aware of the flaws inherent in Wikipedia. Then [...]
My online grad school course started yesterday. And yes, I am only taking one, which for me is a rarity. I usually tend to overload if anything. The course is on Virtual Reference, which should come in pretty handy especially now that I’m starting my training on the reference desk. I don’t know how many [...]
Opening a can of worms here, but after two semesters of graduate school, and lots of comments from those who are already librarians, I wonder how necessary my thousands of dollars spent on an MLIS actually are. So far I’ve enjoyed my library classes, but what I consider to be most applicable to the real [...]
Summary Grid : Spring 2007-2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School of Library and Information Science Class Session Grade Title L I S 551 Regular A Organization of Information L I S 571 Regular A Information Sources L I S 642 Regular A Reading Interests of Adults Read ‘em and weep! Two semesters, perfect 4.0. For [...]
Coming up to the end of the spring semester of grad school. It’s time all my major projects come due, so if you can remember how that was when you were in school you’ll know how hairy this time is. The good news is I’m done with all but two assignments and one of them [...]
I hope you’re sitting down, because I know this will shock you. Ready? Okay. Don’t say I didn’t warn you: My favorite part of library school so far is the RA course I’m taking this semester. I forgot what it was like to be required to read books for a class, and let me tell [...]
Newsflash!: It’s darn tough going back to grad school in your 40s, more so when you also work (albeit part-time) and have three children also in school, also with needs (drat them). If you also think you can dare have any sort of life outside of that, add on the additional impossibility of it all. [...]
