Graduation

Congratulations to me, I’ve finished my coursework at Drexel and now have my MLIS! This past quarter was particularly difficult, since I was moving and starting a new job while still taking three classes online. Since it’s Spring Break for the College but the library stays open, I’m using this quiet time to work on [...]

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New semester

I see that I have inadvertently taken a summer vacation from the blog. My apologies, classes got the best of me and then I moved to a new place around Society Hill and have spent the rest of the summer reading and catsitting in exotic locales (like New Jersey). I did, however, get to deal [...]

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Four Concerts & New Classes

Back in Philadelphia, which is quickly vaulting itself into Spring (with some crazy thunderstorms – hail!), and classes have started once more. This quarter looks promising – I was unsure at first whether or not Cataloging would be for me, but the kind of cataloging I do is so different from normal cataloging that I [...]

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New Classes

All finished with midterms, I just signed up for next quarter’s classes. Drexel does 10 (or 11 sometimes) week quarters, and this one ends March 30th. When I entered Drexel, I’d planned on studying primarily Academic Libraries, with thoughts of going into reference work. After dealing with the tanking economy and having taken a few [...]

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Shoutout for the IPL

One of my final projects is a slightly unusual one – but then, the class is rather unusual for me since it’s wholly online. While doing the reading and having a lecture online isn’t too odd, normally what throws me off the most is the Discussion Board. So far I don’t at all find it [...]

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Philly Storage Solutions, pt. 2

The same week as my visit to the HDS, I went along with a Drexel section of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) to get a tour of the inner workings of the Philadelphia City Archives. As it turns out, the City Archives are located in the same building as the HDS, but we went in [...]

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Philly Storage Solutions, pt. 1

The other day I got the chance to go see the library’s high density storage (HDS) warehouse. It sort of felt as if I were being inducted into some kind of secret society. We entered the ware house through an unlabelled lobby, signing in with a guard, going down a few levels in an elevator, [...]

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The Lowdown from “Main Street” on the 40

While waiting for the 40 the other day in West Philly, I had what started out as an interesting conversation with a fellow SEPTA believer (some day, SEPTA will be on time!), and turned into a very awkward one. It began the way almost all of my SEPTA bus-stop conversations begin – being asked what [...]

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Aftermath

I’ve spent the last couple of hours doing “useful procrastination” – organizing, labelling, sorting all of the many syllabi, course descriptions, articles and such into various folders and binders. My normal level of organization finds me struggling to remember if the “controlled vocabularies” article is for my INFO 510 class, or INFO 511.. or maybe [...]

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First day of school

I felt a bit giddy yesterday morning as I waited for the crossing guard (there’s a charter school right near my apartment) to wave me across the street. The air has started to have that fall crisp in it, and it was my first day of school! With my backpack and packed lunch, I did [...]

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