Great video
“A screen that doesn’t ship with a mouse is broken. Media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for.” -- Clay Shirky @ Web 2.0 Expo, http://blip.tv/file/855937/
Candy@GSLIS
 | Content associated with the teaching activities of Candy Schwartz, Professor at the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College. |
May 14, 2008
May 13, 2008
415, 419 - End of semester
Congratulations everyone on finishing the semester, and especially congratulations to those of you who will be graduating. A big thank you to the gang in 419 who participated in blended learning.
If you want to keep anything in eLearning or Moodle, do it now, as I will be cleaning the content out of these courses shortly.
May 09, 2008
415 - wiki
I e-mailed everyone who had entered into the wiki. If you got two points for many entries, then I said "2 points" - otherwise you got one point, and I just said "thanks" (or zero, of course, if you didn't touch the wiki). I will be pruning the wiki between semesters, but I much appreciate your helping me put together a place where we can find forward-looking libraries and OPACs.
415 - Bioquiz
A number of you also introduced Putnam, as did Mariana Oller:
Cutter lived in MA for most of his life, 1837-1903, and was at Harvard and the Boston Athenaeum. Bush was in MA from 1890-1974, and since all of his education was in Boston, I'll assume that he himself lived in Boston for most of his life. Dewey graduated from Amherst College in 1874, so I'll assume he was there for four years and that he was in MA from 1870-1874. Putnam was in Boston from around 1879-1899, studied in Harvard and worked in the BPL. He was also president of the Mass. Library Club and the ALA.
The most plausible meetup would be between Cutter and his later rival, Dewey, since their dates line up well and the biographies already indicate that they at least knew each other well enough to be rivals. Dewey may have met Cutter when Dewey was in Amherst College, with Dewey going to Boston for some sort of summer job, internship, or possibly a convention. Chances are they didn't “have lunch,” but rather disagreed with each other in meetings and then were bitter rivals.
Bush was in MA as a child when Cutter was in his later years, and while it may have been possible that Bush met with him on some level, it would most likely be because of some connection between Cutter and his parents. He could have met with Dewey, but an age gap still would have existed, especially since Dewey retreated to Florida by the time Bush was a teenager.
Putnam could have met quite a few people. As president of the ALA, he must have met Dewey on many occasions. Since the ALA was so well-connected with Cutter, Putnam was probably in contact with him through these professional organizations. They would have had lunch, but that would be determined by where the ALA conventions were. Of course, they could have visited each other, the most probable situation being Cutter visiting Putnam, checking up on the LC. They may have had a picnic on the National Mall. He probably would have met Bush only at conventions, where Bush may have described his Memex system in a presentation. They may have had lunch and talked about what the Memex system could do for the LC.
415 - Bioquiz
Prize (my admiration) for the most inventive answer to the bonus question, from your classmate John Brigham:
The year: 1893
The Place: Mr. Bartley’s Burgers, Mass. Ave. Cambridge (a little poetic license on this, please)
The conversation:
Charles Cutter and Herbert Putnam are having a quiet lunch discussing Cutter’s departure from the Boston Athenaeum. They’ve returned to their old haunts near the Harvard campus in part to avoid the Boston scene (Charles wanted to get some discrete advice from his friend, who was now practicing law in Boston). More than that, though, they had always loved to meet here and come up with any number of better ways to organize the long lists of burger names scrawled on the walls.
“Maybe they could be Cuttered by condiment?” suggested Putnam, with a wry smile, absent-mindedly also trying to come with a good rhyme for Gouda.
“Or perhaps, they should figure out a way to share out their splendid burgers with other fine institutions?” chuckled Chuck.
At this moment, a young couple came in and sat down with their young child at the next table. The child seemed to take a special interest in the librarian banter. Both Cutter and Putnam were distracted by his stares and finally struck up a conversation with the boy’s parents.
“What’s his name?” asked Charles.
“Vannevar!” exclaimed the proud father.
“How wonderful!” said Charles as his friend muttered under his breath “the boys are going to tease him.”
“You’re one to talk, Herbert, I think the boy looks quite wise – just look at how he’s carefully organizing his rattles by size and by shape!”
May 08, 2008
415 - Last PPT
Is in eLearning. YAY!!! And I finished grading Asst 5 earlier today. Class will end about an hour early, and we will have a wee celebration of the end of semester.
May 07, 2008
415 - LC/DC redo
I am still grading Assignment 5, and returning each one as I finish it. In anticipation, I have put a redo set of questions in eLearning. Once again, only do this AFTER you have read both my comments on your assignment AND the answer sheet. If you have questions about the answers, see me. I can accept this up until 7 am on Monday morning, May 12. Send it by e-mail to Simmons. Also, the way you know whether your re-do made a difference is that I tell you by e-mail. So, if I have not responded to your LCSH re-do, then I never saw it.
415, 419 - Playlist
Last week - Jazz saxophonist Houston Person, this week Van Morrison.
May 02, 2008
Vid Clips
Have a look at these - http://tinyurl.com/5apg7h - esp. This Place is Hot and FindIt.
May 01, 2008
415 - LCSH
I have almost finished putting LCSH assignments back in eLearning. If you would like an opporunity to improve your grade for this assignment, you can complete the make-up assignment (fewer questions) that I have put on the front page of the course eLearning site. Just turn it in to me by e-mail no later than next Friday by 5pm. If you intend to do this, please look at where you went wrong by examining the answer sheet which I placed in your dropbox along with your returned assignment.
Librarian dress-up
You have to see this - http://librariandressup.com/index.htm