I have been meaning to add this photograph taken of our own Cohort 7 to my blog. It was a wonderful week spent with people interested in the same things that I am. Librarians are an interesting breed!

Looking Forward To Next Semester

Wow! Just about finished. I am looking forward to next semester, Retrieving Information and School Library Management. Ordered the books for Retrieving already! I have really enjoyed these classes and I am looking forward to receiving my degree in 2009!

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My University of Pittsburgh Website

I keep forgetting to post my website assignment to my blog. Basically, the website links to my blog, the SIS website, and several of my LIS2600 assignments. Tonight, it will even link to my Thoreau assignment.

View my website here.

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Catching Up...If I Can

My oldest child is fifteen and I've never once been late for a pick-up, until coming home from Fast-Track Week. I was so tired, I slept through my kids' 8:00 religious education pick-up. Fast-Track week certainly was tiring!

It was so nice to put faces with names, and to learn that Debbie is just as nice in person as she is on the DB. It was nice to witness Dr. Tomer and Dr. Alman banter in person, and it was nice to realize that I am doing fine. I can handle these graduate level courses. I am up for the challenge!

So, why did I title this, "Catching Up...If I Can?" I have been so physically exhausted (and a little sick) since I returned that I feel a little behind. Here is what I have left to do this semester:
1. Finish "Linked" plus three other books for LIS2000.
2. Keep up with Hot Topics/Discussion Questions for LIS2000.
3. Put the RSS feed to my blog on my web page for LIS2600.
4. Do Thoreau assignments 1 and 2 and post to my web page for LIS2600.
5. Supplemental readings for LIS2600.

Since writing out this list, I see that I am in the home stretch. If I concentrate this week, I will be able to check items off the list. I am "Catching Up...If I Can!"

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Fast Track Weekend (Week)

Fast Track Weekend is finally here. I am really enjoying the on-campus experience. Dr. Tomer and Dr. Alman are as nice in person as they are in the coursecasts. Debbie Day, too. She is as reassuring in person as she is on the DB. One impression that I have come away with is that they care about the program they are presenting and that they want us to do well. Oh, my fellow cohort members are great. I am already looking forward to the next weekend.

I'm really glad that I switched back to my true passion, school libraries. I tried to sell out and take the track with the most opportunities, but let's face it, I'm a school librarian. I belong with the finger-paint set. I look forward to Dr. Biagini's classes in the future. I can hardly believe there is less than a month left of this semester!

Breaking news: I am three-fourth's of the way done with the web assignment. More on that in my next post!

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The Social Life of Information

As promised, tonight I'm going to "booktalk" The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. It has a lot of fascinating information about the ways that historically information has been stored, passed around and used, as well as predictions for the digital future of information. I chuckled when I read that the popularity of the typewriter spelled the demise of the pencil! Makes me think about the more recent prediction that computers would mean the end of paper (I wish!--paper is the one thing thwarting my goal of total organization). In addition to organizing information, the book show us how to look beyond our obsession with information and individuals to include the critical social networks of which these are always apart.

This was an interesting read! I highly recommend it!

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Just a quickie...

I'm trying to write provocative titles like Dr. Tomer. LOL!

I just returned from my niece's wedding and I am going to quickly work on my web page before I retire to a night of Discovering Computers 2008. On the plane to and from Florida, I finished The Social Life of Information, which I will write more about tomorrow when I recover from my travel-induced exhaustion.

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