Candy@GSLIS

The next lecture's slides are in VISTA. See you Friday.

Posted by Candy Schwartz at 10:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

We have a rich and full agenda tomorrow. While before I was kidding about podcasting lectures, I really am going to have to. Probably at the beginning of next week. It's tough for me to manage course content when we have such different things going on, but I think we are better served at the moment by getting the library done.

This is a time of semester (and project) when everyone gets a little tense and snarly, so please each of you, take a deep breath and think before you talk or e-mail or write to fellow classmates about logistical issues. We are all in this together (and doing great, by the way).

Posted by Candy Schwartz at 07:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The PPT for tomorrow is in VISTA, along with the last (YAY) assignment and a few handouts that go with it (all attached in the same place as the assignment). I am going to focus on this PPT tomorrow, despite saying that I would finish the classification unit. I need to leave you with sufficient MARC and DC that you can work on Assignment 5 over the break, and we don't meet for two weeks after this. I will spend one of the last two days on all those interesting subject access things that I have been putting off, don't worry.

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The biographies written by you and your classmates have been “published”. When you log in to VISTA, choose Assignments and choose the “Published” tab. I have created a new assignment in VISTA caled Bio Quiz - it's like a scavenger hunt through the bios. When you have completed your answers to the questions (with a file called “bioquiz-[username].doc/pdf), log back in to VISTA and upload your answers into the Bio Quiz assignment. This is a non-graded assignment - it counts in my "discretionary" points, like the wiki contributions. Due by December 15.

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A deputized body of students (a substantial number) came to my office just now to ask for a small extension to Assignment 3. It is now due by Tuesday night at 9pm. I am sorry if this upsets those of you who have moved heaven and earth to have it done by deadline, but they made a reasonable argument, and I am a marshmallow. A creampuff. A jellyfish. An amoeba. I won't go on.

Posted by Candy Schwartz at 01:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

I created the VISTA space for it - sorry about the delay. Also, don't forget to be at BPL at 9:30 sharp tomorrow.

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I am blogging the ASIST Conference on another Simmons blog - Dispatches from the field, and putting pictures on the flickr site for Simmons ASIST, in the ASIST 2006 set.

Posted by Candy Schwartz at 07:59 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Yadda yadda - you know the drill. In VISTA.

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