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.
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Showing posts with label LIS 2600. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LIS 2600. Show all posts
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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!"
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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Sunday, June 17, 2007
Scopus/Bloglines Assignment
After working all night, here is the link to the Scopus/Bloglines assignment. The URL for my bloglines feed is http://www.bloglines.com/public/amyryan.
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Saturday, June 16, 2007
Always working...
I have been working so hard. For LIS2000, I started The Anarchist in the Library, and for LIS2600, I have finally finished tagging (although the directions still aren't all clear--what are we supposed to do with Zotero?) I've moved on to Bloglines and Google Co-op assignments. This is the first time since the courses started that I feel behind technology-wise. It is quite an uncomfortable feeling, and an unusual one for me. I have been checking the DB for clues and even posing a few questions myself to figure out the assignments. The good news is that I have presented my hot topic with my group, and feel relieved to have gotten this assignment completed. I will not have to worry about it again (except for posting to other hot topics).
Back to work...
Back to work...
Monday, June 11, 2007
Sometimes I Just Need a Break...
After the trying weekend of tagging this and tagging that, along with putting the finishing touches on my report of the three books for LIS2000, I just needed a break. I put on the teakettle and sat on the porch swing...and nearly caught the kitchen on fire. I forgot about the boiling water!! No tea for me!Break is over...back to LIS2600 and tagging.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
German-Masontown Public Library
I identify myself as a school librarian, but in the last year I moved closer to my family and gave up a beloved school library job. Unfortunately, in this semi-rural area, all of the school jobs were taken, so I took a part-time position at the local public library. I will give you a little history on the library, discuss the pros and cons of being in a public library versus a school one, and then conclude with a decision I made about my career and schooling connected to this library.
The German-Masontown Public Library used to be a synagogue, but our neighborhood didn't have a large Jewish population and in the 1960's they went elsewhere and gave their building up with the stipulation that it become a public library. By the late 1960's that vision became a reality! By the way, the Star of David is still evident at the front entrance of the building.
In my part-time position, I am the Library Director and the only librarian on staff. The pay is what you would expect of a small rural library, and I only took the job to get out into the community and meet people. I work with Shirley, a clerk who has been there 25 years, and Rachel, the weekend clerk. A good circulation day would be checking out fifty items; a great day would have over one hundred! Unfortunately, in this count of fifty items, half of the check outs is due to videos. That is on a good day or a great day--the usual day has about 20-40 items checked out.
The pros I've found working in a small rural public library are that there is less stress and ample opportunity for "visits" with the townsfolk. There are a lot of visits because people don't think we really work there. Maybe that is a pro for the patrons more than for me!
The cons of public library service for me are a lack of professionalism among the staff (not only in dress but in library operations such as cataloging), a measure of unsafety (no locked entry doors like at school) and most importantly, it's just not a school!
Nevertheless, working here is a nice way to pass the day. That is why my decision to resign my post is so shocking to my Board of Directors. They wanted to know why I was so unhappy I wanted to quit; they offered me eight more dollars per hour (this made my day because they really are tight!) and they even offered to let me bring my four children to work with me during the summer (wouldn't the kids have been thrilled?) The real scoop is this: Even though I have applied for a school librarian opening, I really want to spend the summer with my children (and have time to do LIS 2000 and LIS 2600). When they offered me more money, I was able to tell them that I wasn't after more money (the tack of previous librarians), I didn't yet have a new job, I just wanted the summer!
The German-Masontown Public Library used to be a synagogue, but our neighborhood didn't have a large Jewish population and in the 1960's they went elsewhere and gave their building up with the stipulation that it become a public library. By the late 1960's that vision became a reality! By the way, the Star of David is still evident at the front entrance of the building.
In my part-time position, I am the Library Director and the only librarian on staff. The pay is what you would expect of a small rural library, and I only took the job to get out into the community and meet people. I work with Shirley, a clerk who has been there 25 years, and Rachel, the weekend clerk. A good circulation day would be checking out fifty items; a great day would have over one hundred! Unfortunately, in this count of fifty items, half of the check outs is due to videos. That is on a good day or a great day--the usual day has about 20-40 items checked out.
The pros I've found working in a small rural public library are that there is less stress and ample opportunity for "visits" with the townsfolk. There are a lot of visits because people don't think we really work there. Maybe that is a pro for the patrons more than for me!
The cons of public library service for me are a lack of professionalism among the staff (not only in dress but in library operations such as cataloging), a measure of unsafety (no locked entry doors like at school) and most importantly, it's just not a school!
Nevertheless, working here is a nice way to pass the day. That is why my decision to resign my post is so shocking to my Board of Directors. They wanted to know why I was so unhappy I wanted to quit; they offered me eight more dollars per hour (this made my day because they really are tight!) and they even offered to let me bring my four children to work with me during the summer (wouldn't the kids have been thrilled?) The real scoop is this: Even though I have applied for a school librarian opening, I really want to spend the summer with my children (and have time to do LIS 2000 and LIS 2600). When they offered me more money, I was able to tell them that I wasn't after more money (the tack of previous librarians), I didn't yet have a new job, I just wanted the summer!
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