4 posts tagged “lis”

So I haven't been blogging as much as I'd like to lately. The semester is getting into 'crunch time,' I've been keeping busy at work with special projects, my hubby and I have been scouting houses to rent (I think we found the perfect one!) and we've been working on our business. Lots of life getting in the way here.

I do have some plans for my blog in the near future, though. I plan to build a personal/professional portfolio online for myself and move the blog over there. I also want to get into the world of book reviewing, since I love to read and write, and plan on posting some of my reviews on the blog soon. I also want to keep experimenting and developing my web design skills, so that's coming soon too.

I don't see how all these professional librarians keep up with the blogs they write, let alone read. My aggregator says I have over 3000 unread posts. I either need to weed better, or learn to keep up with my professional reading!

Okay, back to more homework!

I read somewhere that some crazy percent of blogs started around the new year end up failing. Like soon.
Not me!
Granted, I've been crazy busy. Like, so crazy busy that my husband started worrying for my mental health. I was always forgetting things and feeling like I was in a haze all the time.
So, I dropped one of my 4 classes. It probably wasn't the best idea anyway, to take 12 graduate credit hours and work full time. But I figured somehow I made it through 18 undergraduate hours while working 45+ hours a week, I could handle 12/40.
Nope.
And now I feel better. I dropped my favorite class, Digital Libraries, because I felt really bad about not devoting the amount of time to it that I should. I told my professor that I could really see the DL field as a career path, and I wanted to give myself a better opportunity to learn all that I could from it. And that I hope he offers it again!
So, time for another mini-crisis about my program of study. The thing is, it has to be done before I complete X credit hours, which will be in May. And since I had myself booked for 12 credit hours on many semesters ahead, and now realizing I can't handle that, I have to completely re-arrange everything.
But hey, by moving my graduation date forward, maybe they'll find someone to teach Advanced Cataloging before I leave.

So I read Dot Calm yesterday while I was getting my oil changed [there was a bit of a wait, and I'm a pretty fast reader], and let me just say that I wasn't impressed. I guess I was just expecting more than the obvious "turn off the cell phone" and "take time to meditate" as help for getting away from the "wired world".

My problem is, I'm flooded with so much information, and I have trouble weeding it out. I'm on almost all the major library listervs [as a lurker, mind you], and have well over 200 RSS feeds coming to me daily. And my problem is, I WANT to read all of it! I'm still learning about all the facets of this profession; I guess I think by reading everything out there, I'll learn what direction I want to go when I'm done with my LIS degree. It's just becoming difficult to keep up.

So when I find a book that gives more practical advice, I'll let you know.
Or do you know of anything helpful? I'd love to read it!

All that fun 'About Me' stuff in is my profile, so I'm just going to start writing.
I just finished my first semester of grad school, so I'm using this few weeks of down time to start blogging. I hope I have the time to keep up with it, because I love exploring technology and playing with new tools.
I'm not sure just yet what I'll have to say that will be interesting or earth-shattering, but I hope that by chronicling my thoughts and experiences on grad school, libraries, technology, and life in general, I can help other current/future LIS students learn something, or at least have one more blog to read. =)
[Oh, and this is the coolest blog skin ever. A girl with a book and a plane = me reading, and heading to London!]