415 - Next PPT
Slides for May 2 are in eLearning.
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April 30, 2008
April 29, 2008
415 - Mary Andrews
Due to poor editing, I did not tell you what nationality Mary Andrews is. You can make her British or American.
419 - final list
A late entrant of improved title - so here is the final version of the presentations.
415 - All times gone
I have 17 half hour appointments with students in 415 and 419 in the next two days. The rest of the time is taken up with meetings. So I cannot see anyone else on Wednesday or Thursday - sorry.
April 28, 2008
419 - Revised presentations
Here is the latest list, with an amended presentation title.
April 25, 2008
419 - Last class
Here's the
list of presentations and also the order of presentations. You will be dragged off stage at the 15 minute mark, so plan for 12. We will take a break after the first four talks to browse the posters.
I will bring something special to class to celebrate. If you feel that you could also bring something, then by all means do. We can have a little party after the presentations.
415, 419 - Playlist
This week's music was Michael McGoldrick's Wired. Michael is a Manchester-born Irish musician of renown. At the Celtic Connections fesitival I go to every January, he's just known as "Michael", as in "Michael's arrived" - and everyone knows who you mean. Everybody's favourite accompanist (flutes, whistles, pipes, several other instruments) and a really nice man too. He has been a huge influence on Celtic music, from traditional to fusion (he frequently has African and Arabic musicians on stage with him). He doesn't really have a Web page, but search for Michael McGoldrick in YouTube to see him at play. He is in Wikipedia. If you have seen the Scottish group Capercaillie in the past few years you have probably seen Michael.
Observations
Student groups in the core organization class explored how a large bookstore and a large public library handle an assigned topical area (e.g., sports, handicrafts, cookery). Each group made a report, and then each student commented on other reports. I enjoyed this comment, and it shows why I use this assignment. The student is Stephen Stose, and the name of the library has been removed.
------------ comment by Stephen:
Yes, I also enjoyed reading the distinction between precision browsing and precision searching. I have always thought that libraries should become, nevertheless, more "browsable" and bookstores more "searchable". …. Libraries should guard the silence, but not at the expense of user experience. This may be to suggest that librarians need to relax a bit, open up a coffee shop inside (not Starbucks, please), and use their lobby as public space (if it is, where is the public?), not as space observed by the panoptican desk of the shhshing librarian (how I felt in XXX PL, waiting). Here we have it: the "public" turned "private". I suppose, bookstores, on the other hand, require the opposite extreme. Here we have the "private" turned overwhelmingly "public", almost as if there is nothing else to do in Boston these days other than browse a bookstore-coffee shop with one's kids and friends, as a way to spend the day. It is a nice way to spend the afternoon, but often today it seems done, let me suggest, in the name of "style", which bookstores seem happy to promote. A noisy bookstore on Saturday morning, making lots of money at the same time; it is the new public space, and few people consider spending the same day at the public library, perhaps due to the constrictions these old "public" dinosaurs place on the public. Indeed, after my experience in XXX PL, I also would prefer the Harvard Bookstore or Coop, where there is at least life. And if I really was interested in precise searching, I probably would go to the much larger BPL downtown. The conclusion, libraries need to adapt to the public spirit a bit more, open their doors, let their hair down, and serve wine and coffee where artists and intellectuals and families can feel comfortable "being" and also browsing. Few families really are interested in precise searching, and the intellectuals and artists at the bookstores, really, could use a bit more of that.
April 24, 2008
415 - Next PPT
The remaining file on classification is in eLearning.
April 21, 2008
419 - Next PPT in Moodle
The last PDF of PPT slides from me is in Moodle.
April 17, 2008
415 - Bios
I have marked the bios, and have put the scavenger hunt (Bioquiz) into eLearning. Please note that I also put the Putnam bio into the bioquiz dropbox - this was due to a glitch in eLearning. The rest are all available from the Bio assignment in eLearning. I moved the due date from April 25 to April 28 - an extra weekend.
April 15, 2008
419 - Penultimate week
In the schedule, I have set aside days in the penultimate week for a review of your presentation and project. Please sign up on the relevant page in the wiki - http://gslis.simmons.edu/wikis/lis419sp08/.
419 - Next PowerPoint
Today's stuff is now there. Sorry for the delay.
415, 419 - Playlist
Last week's music (415) was the wonderful Riccardo Tesi, world's foremost proponent of the Italian diatonic accordion/meolodeon (yeah, I know, but you have to be there). I have seen Riccardo 4 or 5 times, and coincidentally got e-mail from him last Friday afternoon (for the first time in years). This week's is the far better known Gypsy Kings. I have never seen them, although I was in their home town (Les Saintes Maries de la mer) last November. They come through Boston regularly.
April 14, 2008
419 - Next PPT
I am running late with it, and will have to finish tomorrow AM. You will have to capture it after the class if you want it.
April 09, 2008
415 - Next PPT
The first Dewey PPT slide set is in eLearning. We may or may not get to it on Friday. Remember - we start in the Lab.
April 08, 2008
419 - Next "lecture"
I have recorded this week's lecture and it is in Camtasia. Enjoy.
415 - OPAC presentation
From a student who took the course recently, and just used Camtasia in the Lab for an assignment in 419 in which she needed to capture Web transactions:
"I just finished making my silent video! This was the first time I've used Camtasia (always wanted a chance to use it) and it is really nice. There is still some time left on the 30 day trial here in the lab. I didn't have any problem with producing the video in .avi format. It would be a good thing to invest in. It is much easier than screen shots and captures so much more of the searches. You might want to suggest this to students in 415 for the OPAC presentation. It would be great especially with the voice over."
It's on the machines in the back of the Lab.
April 07, 2008
419 - Next PPT in Moodle
These are the slides that I will be talking to when I do the Camtasia thing tomorrow.
April 03, 2008
415 - Next PowerPoint & last assignment
Are both in eLearning now.
April 02, 2008
419 - RSQC2-2
Well, I obviously forgot to put the file up in Moodle during the break, so the missing RSQC2 is now there. Given my delays, maybe you could do it sometime before the next class, if possible. Sorry.
415, 419 - Playlist
This week's music was Bob Dylan's Blood on the tracks. My favourite of his post-mid-60s canon.
415 - Thursday April 3
I will only be available between 8:00-9:30 and 2:00-3:00 on Thursday. If you are one of the 3 people who have set up a date in those times you will have priority when you arrive, and anyone else can wait in line. Other than those times my door will be closed and I will be grading your previous assignments. I cannot take any more appointments by e-mail for Thursday.