Summer Practicum Meeting 1

I just got back from a meeting with the amazing Chelcie Rowell, the Digital Initiatives Librarian at Wake Forest University, Z. Smith Reynolds Library. I'm in the process of starting a summer practicum, and it looks like we are a good fit. Her department is in the process of digitizing the University Depository, so that people will be able to view rare and unique collections of Wake Forest history.

Here we go....

Last week was Spring Break, so the semester is back in full swing. I'm learning how to create a LibGuide, how to create catalog records, and am in the process of doing a needs assessment project, complete with survey.

Final Projects: x2

I have two classes this semester with final projects: Foundations and Information Organization.

For my Foundation's class, we were supposed to write an ethics/advocacy paper, as well as an action research paper. Or, we could combine them and write one long paper that combines action research and advocacy.

I started writing a paper about Autism and the Libraries, and had a case study of the main branch of my public library as my action research. Then, I found a post about Autism Speaks, which prompted me to add a few sections to my paper about the organization. The section is summed up as "why no one should ever, ever, support Autism Speaks, and here is why."

For Information Organization (which I'll post some information about in a new page later), I decided to create subject heading for my book collection. I am not simply looking up the book for its Library of Congress Subject Heading, I am creating my own, and ones that should clearly explain the book from the subject headings themselves.

Shall We Begin?

What do you say we get started?