Breather between semesters

It's been nice not to have to read--- been reading for fun! Monday starts the last of the courses. Wish me luck! December I'll graduate with MLIS.

Man Martin Visit

Eagerly awaiting the visit by Man Martin on Monday! 9:30 in the OTC Auditorium. Ya'll come!

Libraries of the Ancient World

Just finished reading, Libraries of the Ancient World. Very fascinating!

Studying continues...

Finished Maymester. It was tough but interesting. Am now onto Electronic Resources and History of Libraries. Going to be a busy summer.

Final Project

Jean and I finished our final project. We wrote a paper about mobile web technologies. It was very fascinating. There are a lot of articles about it and we had a hard time knowing when to start. There is a lot of research that can be done on the topic. It is a new technology that many libraries are slowly integrating. North Carolina State University is probably the premier in terms of application and integration. If you want to know how to do it, check it out their site.
Below is the link to our paper. You can access it with your gmail account. I made it public for anyone with a gmail account.
It's been an interesting short session. I learned a lot and hope to implement some of the ideas into my library.


http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARrJPF3iyp1TZGRmN3NrcTRfMWYyZHBkZmQ0&hl=en

Almost Finished

I am almost finished with 7505. Last assignment is the paper. I've enjoyed reading about mobile technology. It is amazing what is going on in libraries today via mobile device accessibility. This class has allowed me to see components that I can add to my library. As soon as I finish this degree, I am going to dive in without looking!

Have started two new classes- Electronic Resouces and History of Libraries. Looks like a lot of reading.

My YouTube Link for Mobile Technology is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc0seaJqWWg/
I wish I had time to do more for the video.

Assignment 4

This assignment has definitely been the hardest. The ROAR site helped as did the article on metadata.
The article helped when it related metadata schemes to cataloging.
It makes sense now about metadata schemes or schema. Metadata schemes include Dublin Core (dev. to be simple, concise, and describe Web-based documents); Text Encoding Initiative (TEI- electronic versions of printed text); Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS- developed to fill the need for a standard data structure for describing complex digital library objects); Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS, derivative of MARC 21 intended to carry data from existing MARC 21 records); EAD; LOM are most common ones.

I read several articles at the dlib.org website and understood most of them.

Another good resources was the Library Technology Reports, 2002, issue 38 (5).

I hope to finish up this assignment tonight.