4 posts tagged “school”

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.

Here's the list of classes I'm taking next semester:
ISLT 7314 - Reference Sources & Services
ISLT 7370 - Intermediate Web Development
ISLT 9409 - Digital Libraries
ISLT 9414 - Internet Reference

And here's what I've already taken [with my grade, just because I'm pretty proud of myself =)]
ISLT 7301 - Introduction to Information Technology [A]
ISLT 7305 - Foundations of Library and Information Science [A]
ISLT 7312 - Introduction to Cataloging & Classification [A]

Here's what I plan to read in the coming year. This will probably change quite frequently. I've divided it by category: personal, for work, for school, and for my business. [If it has a * then I don't own it yet, and a ^ means I have it checked out from my library!]

Personal
Bibliophilia: A Novella And Stories - Michael Griffith (currently reading)
*A Fairly Honourable Defeat - Iris Murdoch
*The Case of the Missing Books: A Mobile Library Mystery - Ian Sansom
*Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
*Girl's Guide to Witchcraft - Mindy Klasky
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
Underworld - Don DeLillo
Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
We the Living - Ayn Rand

Work
^The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Federal Reserve - Lita Epstein and Preston Martin

School
Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide - Charles Wyke-Smith
JavaScript for the World Wide Web, Fifth Edition - Tom Negrino, Dori Smith
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Unleashed - Zak Ruvalcaba
Reference And Information Services: An Introduction - Richard Bopp

Bear Designs
^The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More - Chris Anderson
*Your Crafts Business: A Legal Guide - Richard Stim