Aside from joining professional organizations, there is an incredible emount of thinking that goes along with how to promote yourself as a professional librarian. In this sense, I am glad that I took some to head out into the “real world” before deciding to continue with graduate school because I feel that it really prepared [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Boot Camp’
23 Jul
IST 511: Day 4 – Intellectual Freedom
Today’s guest speakers focused much of their lectures on how to use your library’s space. Tina Nabinger, Lesley Pease, and Jean Armour Polly all gave great examples on how to better use the space that you have to best connect with patrons and ensure that their experience of the library is both appealing and useful. [...]
22 Jul
IST 501 – Day 3: Library Systems Panal and Rare Books
Today we had many guests: Kellie Connor Bobbi Gwilt Deb Lewis Christina Pope Steve Weiter Each one had a position that required great knowledge of library systems and an even greater sense of patience. The speaker I found most interesting was Kelly Conner. She works for a vendor (often referred to as the “dark side”) [...]
21 Jul
IST 501: Day 2 – Copyright Law
Copyright law is a very good example of why I never wanted to be lawyer. This very simple idea (protecting work you’ve done so that others cannot plagarize) has become a very complex, living organism that seems to continually grow with each passing year. I do understand and agree very much with why copyright law [...]
20 Jul
IST 511 (Introduction to Library and Information Profession): Day 1
Well it seems they don’t refer to the Gateway courses as “Boot Camp” for nothing. Having barely relaxed after an intense 2 days in 601, I found myself sitting in 511 ready to discuss basic librarian and information science issues. One of the things I am very impressed with is that Syracuse offers an MSLIS [...]
19 Jul
IST 601 (Introduction to Information and Information Environments)
I have officially completed my first course (IST 601) so I suppose I’m officially in the process of completing my degree. Based on the assignments beforehand, I really had no idea what to expect from the course but all in all it was a very insightful 2 days. With a lot of emphasis on the [...]
