Comments for Sandra Herber: Future Librarian

Comment on Final Reflection by lola

lola — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:06:58 +0000

I couldn’t have said it better myself, Sandra!

It’s fabulous that you’ve pointed out the difference that AEJ made in this distance course through her weekly slideshows. I don’t think this course would have been nearly as enjoyable if it wasn’t as organized or engaging!

Take care, Sandra!

Comment on Final Reflection by amanda

amanda — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:49:21 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful post, Sandra. It really does sound like 9763 provided a positive learning experience for you and I couldn’t be happier about that! I also like how you related the usablelibrary.org sentiment to social software implementation in libraries

Have a great summer and please do keep in touch!

Comment on Weekly Readings: Social Software Literacy and Affordance by rachelpeters

rachelpeters — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:48:27 +0000

Congratulations on being almost finished your MLIS degree Sandra! I found your viewpoints on the Death by Risk Aversion article very interesting. I would agree that it is a challenge when deciding how to “market” yourself for potential LIS careers. It’s hard to know when to “play it safe” and take the job that isn’t the right fit. Interesting post and best wishes for the future!

Comment on Weekly Readings: RSS and Mashups by megan

megan — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:17:27 +0000

Hi Sandra,

I have a similar philosophy about technology. I collect a certain amount of knowledge and skill and then the rest will be supplemented by a good relationship with the IT crowd within and outside my institution. I may eventually add to my programming knowledge, but my skills will likely never compare to those of someone with the passion and training in the area.

Comment on The Superconference from a First-Timer’s Perspective by amanda

amanda — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:02:45 +0000

It was great to meet you IRL, Sandra! Also, thanks for sharing your advice on attending conferences — you’ve made some excellent points here. As I think I mentioned to you last week, conferences can be super overwhelming (especially conferences as big as supercon), so hearing from others about their experiences is really useful. And another thing to keep in mind: the more conferences you attend, the better you get at “conferencing”

Comment on The Superconference from a First-Timer’s Perspective by Sandra Herber

Sandra Herber — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:31:50 +0000

Thanks, Rachel. Yes, I had a great time (and I’m glad that came across). Good luck with that “Living Library” project.

Comment on The Superconference from a First-Timer’s Perspective by Rachel Peters

Rachel Peters — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:30:42 +0000

Sandra,
It looks like you had a great time at the Superconference! I went last year and really enjoyed it! The “Living Library” is an idea that we have been trying to pull together at my workplace, but we haven’t done it yet. I’m glad to hear that it went well!

Comment on Weekly Readings: Collective Intelligence and Folksonomies by Mellissa

Mellissa — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:43:20 +0000

Hello Sandra,

I enjoyed reading your post. In thinking about tagging in the academic catalogue I did a personal reflection. For me I had never really tried tagging ever, and the academic catalogue didn’t seem like the appropriate venue for such an experiment. Now that I see the benefits I feel I will be more likely to participate in tagging in the catalogue and elsewhere, however, I would venture a guess that many students may feel that tagging in their personal interest/internet surfing life is too disconnected with their academic research. I am not sure how library professionals could get students feeling comfortable with tagging in the academic catalogue. Perhaps, if professors encouraged it as part of a research assignment students would try it out, gain comfort and move forward from there.

Comment on Weekly Readings: Collective Intelligence and Folksonomies by lola

lola — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:19:06 +0000

Excellent points, Sandra!

I, too, think folksonomies are quite appropriate for the web environment because of the speed and ease of access they offer to relevant content. Encore at UWO is a system that is still being ‘ironed’ out at Western Libraries… I’m not sure that people are interested in tagging because the process is for organization of one’s own library of items vs. for the public (similar to the whole Amazon argument.) I’m also not sure how the tag cloud on the side works when there are no tags or the items!

(p.s. I did a search for ‘library 2.0′ and the most frequent tag was ‘integrated circuits.’)

Comment on Weekly Readings: Collective Intelligence and Folksonomies by Megan

Megan — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:14:42 +0000

Sandra,

In the academic environment there maybe terms that have not been added to the traditional classification systems for areas such as computer science, library science, and other areas in which publishing and research are keeping well ahead of Library of Congress updates. There may also be materials that are particularly useful for a particular class, but are not on the official reading list that could be taked with the class code. Another area is the area of valuable blogs and websites that are now useable as academic source that maybe tagged for students and faculty by other students and faculty as well as the subject librarian. I am sure there are other purposes I haven’t thought of for tagging in the academic realm.