 | Content associated with the teaching activities of Candy Schwartz, Professor at the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College. |
Just FYI, I start teaching at Mount Holyoke this week and then two of the next three weeks. So I will not be in the office on the following Thursdays and Fridays: July 6 & 7, 20 & 21, and 27 & 28. I take a 3:00 bus from South Station on Wednesdays of those weeks.
Biographies are all signed up for, so please feel free to create the bios and put them into VISTA. One per group. The deadline for this is Class 8 - July 17.
You might be interested to read through this series of short articles on library services and Web 2.0 in NextSpace (OCLC's newsletter).
April M. Taylor, Manager, of Library Services at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, is looking for someone to work with her (see extended etntry for fuller description). It appears as though she would be willing to wait until after the summer course is over.
Hi Candy!
Please forgive the unsolicited email, but I have an opportunity for your cataloging students that you might want to pass along to them. I am a solo in a medium-size international law firm library with a small collection of uncataloged books, periodicals and databases. I cannot afford to purchase a catalog right now, but I desperately need something more than what we have. Our books are shelved by color-coded sections (i.e. Labor, Real Estate, Bankruptcy, etc.), but we do not have call numbers or a formal check-out system, so we never know where anything is. I have most of our collection in something I inherited called Library World Gold, but I'm the only person who can access it, so it's useless.
Ideally, I would like to build a crude catalog database that our office can access through the network or portal. I've already started putting the cards and envelopes in the back of the books for a card catalog or check-out system, but I just don't have the time (or skills) to catalog everything properly or set up a database. As we add more practice groups, our collection continues to grow, and it's almost out of control. I know Simmons offers an independent study for 2-3 credits, so I'm hoping you have an industrious student looking for some real experience, that would want to tackle my collection. If you don't, would you please forward this message on to whomever you think might be able to help me out?
Thanks! April
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April M. Taylor, M.L.I.S.
Manager, Library Services
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
World Trade Center East
Two Seaport Lane, Suite 300
Boston, MA 02210
617-946-4945 / 617-790-6755 fax
ataylor@seyfarth.com
I have amended the Assignment 2 due date in VISTA and on the course outline. It is now Friday July 7, 9pm.
I am documenting the campus construction. If you want to follow along, you can find the photos in the Little Dig 3 set in my flickr space.
I have loaded into VISTA the next PowerPoint stuff, as well as two things in handouts: "Common Errors Asst 2" and "MARC Coding Cheat Sheet". Both will come up in class tomorrow.
Taxonomy Classification Specialist
Two month full time job on site (July and August)
NameMedia is looking for four MLS students with experience in a web services environment where information is a key variable for ecommerce. You will help us QA 100K + domain names, and suggest proper classification of these names to a 300 node hierarchal taxonomy.
It will help if you understand all aspects of the organizational principals that govern how information is governed in a taxonomy. If you are versed in current auto-classification techniques, entity extraction, managed vocabularies, thesaurus and dictionaries, meta data record management and data cleansing this will be a plus
Interested parties should send a resume, and a statement of qualifications to:
Mark Sprague
NameMedia Inc.
230 Third Avenue
Waltham, MA 02451
MSprague@NameMedia.com
781-839-2806 W
Since campus has been closed until Monday, I am changing the due date for Assignment 1 to Wednesday. I know some of you were planning on coming in over the weekend. You should be able to do the bulk of Assignment 1 (the systems comparisons) off-campus, but you need to get at the Lab to do the second part.
The fun just keeps on coming! The next day's PowerPoint, and the next assignment (two files) have been loaded into VISTA. Also, about ten of you still have to sign up for the biography assignment. Have a nice weekend.
The PowerPoint slides for Wednesday, as well as a handout ("Searching OCLC") are now in VISTA.
I put the first edition of the name, phone, e-mail, and snack sheet in VISTA, in the Handouts section. I will update as the last few information sheets roll in.
I have put some things into VISTA: the handouts from the first day's PowerPoint, the first assignment, the biography group signup sheet (there's a link on the main course page), and drop boxes for some of the later assignments. Locations should be obvious (for Assignments, use the VISTA Assignments tab).
Just so you aren't shocked when you next see me, I took a header onto a concrete sidewalk earlier today, and landed on my nose. Not broken, but I have a lovely bruise and bandage, and I expect a pair of black eyes by Monday. You can see a preview in flickr.
If you would be interested in working on a summer internship at CrossRef (probably the Lynnfield office) doing research related to electronic journals, let me know.
This is the first time I have used a blog for course news, so here goes. Hi to LIS 415 (Boston) and LIS 419 (Mount Holyoke). Please be sure to fill in the Info Sheet, which you will find on the opening page of your VISTA space for this course, and mail it off to me. Web materials for the course will remain in the usual places (415 - 419). The news pages will track back to the blog for a while. You should subscribe to this blog via your favourite news reader (I use Bloglines), and that way you won't have to go to the course news, as it will come to you!