I had the pleasure of having dinner with Rachel Singer Gordon Saturday night in Orlando! What fun. We fell right into conversation about our libraries, UNT, technology, conferences and writing for the library world. I appreciate Rachel’s writing and view of the library world! thanks for a great time, Rachel!
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Have I mentioned I’m off to ALA on Thursday? Probably not with all the school stuff starting. I’m going down for a few meetings, exhibits and to see some library folk. I am also going to visit Disney and Universal! I was disappointed in the lack of tech stuff at PLA, so we will see how this plays out. I chose a Hilton property that has FREE wireless throughout the building! I am travelling with my dear friend Keith, who was my roomate through 2 years of undergrad days in Bloomington “back in the day.” We always seem to have […]
Sunday class time was 9am-3pm with time for a carried in lunch. we chatted a whole lot more about the whole experience and talked about future Institutes in Denton. We will spend weekends in Texas: August October December January 2005 will have fewer meetings and more online stuff. The last part of the day was spent with Dr. Richard herrington, who will be teaching our online class SLIS 6940 Seminar in Research and Research Methodology. The text is an InfoToday book (yeah!) Statistical Methods for the Information Professional: A Practical, Painless Approach to Understanding, Using, and Interpreting Statistics by Liwen […]
Day Two was spent in class with Dr. O’Connor. IMLS 6000, the introductory Info Science course, is an overview of the studylife of a doctoral student. We discussed the nature of information, definitions of what information is (and yes, a digital file of a Fleetwood Mac song is information…) and such topics as entropy. At noon time we headed to lunch at Johnny Corrino’s across the way from the Hampton. I had the BEST low carb salmon dish ever. The afternoon was spent discussiong various PPTs that Dr. O’Connor presented. It was also one of the times a few of […]
What a great group of folks! Dr. Brian O’Connor is with us in this shot!
I’m in Texas…pursuing the PhD! What a weekend!
We spent all day in class and the evening at a dinner at Dr. Hastings house — which was fab! I will write more tomorrow! Must….sleep….
Here’s our afternoon’s focus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy
It was a whirlwind. I was exhausted by the time I came back to my room. I went downstairs before our set 3pm meeting time and there were members of the cohort everywhere – checking in, hanging out in the lobby, and swimming in the hotel pool. It was nice to put real live people with e-mails and photos online. We offcially convened at 3pm with a general session with Dr. Brian O’Connor and did some Q & A. Then we shuttled over to the UNT Campus and attended a “meet & greet” with the faculty complete with wine and […]
We will meet and greet in just a few hours, but to get a good grip I’m “meeting” the facuilty via their Video greetings. I like this a lot. Could libraries do such a thing? Videos of greeting from various folks like the director or Head Librarian? http://www.unt.edu/slis/people/faculty/index.htm