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Information as a Liberal Art: Statement for LIS 560 I wish I had found my calling to librarianship a decade ago while attending a small liberal arts college.  This unfortunately was not the case, yet I can begin to see in retrospect how well that education prepared me for the nature of what we are currently engaged in.  We are pursuing mastery of an emerging, ambiguous, vast field.  It is largely those "theoretical" skills that that allow us to do what we are trying to do.  This program asks us to transcend what we simply know because the universe of information is both vast and rapidly changing due to global social and technological forces.  We can no longer just “know” everything we need to do our jobs as information professionals, but will need the skills to just figure it out when the time comes.   As students we are asked to learn both new facts and think critically about the ambiguous nature of the information world we occupy.  Shapir...

Jennifer Morales LIS 598 Journal of Professional Reflection Winter Quarter 08 Teen users of public libraries: One the first day of LIS 598, a course called The Thoughtful Professional,” we jumped right into contentious issues in public librarianship.   Although I’ve not yet worked as a public librarian, I can imagine how this could is one of the more challenging venues in which to work, simply from the varied nature of “public” users.   One of these is the issue of children and teen users and how some libraries view the community is taking advantage of the library as a public space to dump their kids off.   (Does this really happen?)   We discussed whether the library should be designated for certain uses and what types of enforcement is appropriate in this setting after reading “ Lock the Library! Rowdy Students are taking over. ”   This article depicts young adult (middle school/high school) students as being a bane to both the library and a community ...

Collecting LIS blogs with intriguing names and/or useful information like these: Exploded Library Info Information Wants To Be Free The ALA Tech Blog Carnival of the Infosciences Lorcan Dempsey's blog A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette Catalgablog Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book The Kept-Up Academic Librarian Librarian.net The point is that there is just an extremely vast amount of content published by and for LIS students and professionals. Take a look through if you are interested in knowing more about the field. Anyone interested in referring me to additional and/or actively updated blogs, please email me .

The link above goes to a site that helps people network based on their preferences for literature. I haven't even figured out how to use it yet, but take a look and get the idea that a lot more people than me may be obsessed with what they read and how they relate to others... This sumer, I'm also reading: Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka ? ) is a novel by Haruki Murakami ( 2002 ). A translated story of a a modern Japanese runaway teenage boy that finds sanctuary in a library. Topics in social alientation, self-discovery, sexuality, and metaphysics. (I'm still working on this one as of 7/24/06). Torpor (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) by Chris Kraus a semi-autobiographical novel about the author as a young(er) woman and artist struggling to develop her own artistic identity. I liked this book because it was primarily set at the time that I was a late teenager (1988- 1991) and delt with various (now) historical global and political themes that I experienced fir...

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  As I am only initially entering the field, I have a lot of my own research and information to collect. I'm faced with the primary question of what the best way to organize the information/resources I find, especially since I don't have my own laptop right now and am using various public terminals to do this very basic research. Things that I'm looking at right now: Training resources: Fluency with Information Technology www.Lynda.com Pre-MLIS jobs/companies: www.Adobe.com Fremont! www.xerox.com www.starbucks.com www.washington.edu www.craigslist.com/seattle > PR/writing/editing/non-profit www.SPL.org Funding: The ALA Fastweb Scholarship portal Graduate School Financial Aid www.sla.org Scholarships for Re-entry students Individual resources: DJ Miller April D. iSchool program students C. Woods C. Yost Institutional/Other resources: UW Libraries Reference page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/research/car.html www.infotoday.com ...