Off the Mark

  Refuge    Originally uploaded by broken thoughts.
I found this sign yesterday hidden in the stairwell of the GSLIS building at UIUC.   Is there some odd sort of metaphorical meaning here?
This is my 500th post on this blog!   I find that hard to believe.   Besides many things, it has served as [...]

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Since Thursday, besides doing minor things like finishing up my last two classes for my MSLIS, I have rented and watched 6 movies.  It’s so easy when they’re already paid for.
Thumbsucker - this is a wonderful little film about how our parents screw us up and how we all individually try to deal with that.  [...]

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My last assignment for my MSLIS Originally uploaded by broken thoughts.
Barely over an hour ago, at 3:05 PM CT today (8 May 2006) I turned in my final assignment towards my MSLIS. It is my annotated bilbiography of materials about the education of catalogers and [...]

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The ALCTS Educational Policy Statement (1995, last updated Aug 2005) seems to go hand-in-hand with their document "Training Catalogers: a
Checklist for Managers and Trainers," (rev. July 2005) [see my previous post for comments on this document].  The Educational
Policy Statement is broader though, in that it covers all librarians,
but more directly librarians in all technical services [...]

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As I sit here lovingly finishing up my last assignment before I can be awarded my MSLIS, I decided I might go ahead and post some comments, reviews sort of, that I wrote on two ALCTS documents for my advanced Cataloging class.  My comments address their applicability in assisting us as students in formulating a [...]

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Just a half hour ago I sent off my abstracting assignment that was (over)due.  I turned in my "final" yesterday.  And Frank was definitely right, the "final" was short and enjoyable!  It was a crossword puzzle and a choice of one of two short answer (a couple sentences) questions. 
Indexing & Abstracting is over!  If [...]

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I am physically exhausted (not sleeping well), but not really overtly (overly) stressed.  [I would have written/posted this last night but TypePad was undergoing a "sophisticated distributed denial of service attack."]  So,….
Yesterday (Tues), I turned in my paper justifying my new XML schema, "MODSultralite", and my initial four records encoded in this schema.  Kind of [...]

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