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The summer term is starting up tomorrow at FSU. I’m signed up for two classes at the moment: Health Information Resources and Information Architecture. I want to take both — really, really badly! – but I am not sure if I can handle two graduate classes at the moment… (On a side note, I am [...]
The geek in me likes that the Government Printing Office has a youtube account. In honor of my LIS 5661 government documents class, I share with thee such splendor.
By way of Meredith Farkas’s blog Information Wants to Be Free: Students from San Jose State University’s SLIS library and information science program have created a wonderful collection of LIS publications. Using a wiki, they have it organized by: LIS scholarly journals LIS professional and trade publications LIS online forums Civilian publications Book publishers Unclaimed [...]
Wow, folks are talkin’, and I’m so glad about it! As someone who is working on her MLIS, I am always interested in reading about the future of the profession, no matter how wonderful – or bleak – some may predict it to be. It’s important to critically analyze where the profession is, where it’s [...]
Gasp! Not the dreaded “L” word! From yesterday’s Library Journal: Rutgers Faculty Agrees to Drop “Library” from SCILS Name. Why is “Library” such a dreaded word? update 3/23/08 The Library Journal posted two responses today regarding Rutgers’s decision to drop “Library” from SCILS: Jorge Reina Schement: Why Rutgers Faculty Agreed to Drop the “Library” Name [...]
