EDUCATION / LIBRARIANSHIP
For various reasons I am beginning to lean towards something in cataloging & classification vs. reference. I am only in my 1st semester of cat & class I realize, so to help decide I am trying to get a practicum in cataloging this summer. I am willing to commit to a serious pursuit of cataloging & classification, considered on a very broad scale, but I want to know that I can even stand it.
I have an interview with the head librarian of a small special library and her head of technical services on Tuesday about the possibility of doing a practicum this summer. I really hope this works out. I need to get some experience at something other than what I know; especially considering I don’t want to do what I did for 6 years. Getting some primary reference responsibilities would be a nice experiment too, but I don’t know if that’s going to happen. My current job requires some reference work, but not primarily.
I have been working on an educational plan that has me staying and doing a Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS); working on a good education in cataloging & classification. There are so many things I could do to learn much of this on my own, but there is no time to learn more currently, and there’s not much that can go either. So to really dig into folksonomies, taxonomies, ontologies, metadata, cat & class II, knowledge representation, and so on I may just have to stay and do another 40 hours. More on all this to come…
I heard back from Dorothea today. Thanks for the kind words! See you at ACRL.
IPOD
I got my iPod today! Aside: Let me tell you about getting packages delivered when you live alone and are at school/work all day… It’s charging right now and I’ve installed the software on my computer.
EASTER
I had several folks ask me what I’m doing for Easter, or JCs day, or chocolate bunny day, and other cuteness. Well, really nothing special, BUT, for me it is. I’ll be visiting my state university library on Easter Sunday. Out of the previous 6 Easters, I worked 4, and possibly 5, of them over at Milner Library. As a student, and later as staff, I worked all the weird open days when the library was the only thing open on campus. This year it is my heathen privilege to swap roles and be the patron. God bless us heathens that can keep a great research library open on Easter weekend!
So, it has been a kind of Good Friday for me for once. Nice and quiet at work and got to work with good people. I didn’t get told no outright on the practicum. I’m excited that I may have found a direction for my education. [Wow, that sentence needs a couple of paragraphs to unpack!] I heard from Dorothea. I got my iPod. And I have a plan for a library adventure on Easter. Hopefully almost no one will be back from Spring Break yet, please, please,…