I’m starting my third official semester as a graduate student but there are still a few nuts I haven’t cracked yet. I’m starting to wonder if they’re worth cracking or if I’m just worrying too much. What I’ve been doing Note-taking strategy. For both reading and classroom lectures, I still have (I think) a shockingly …
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End o’ the semester cleanup
After the Spring 2007 semester, I asked Marilyn what she did with all of her notes, drafts of papers and presentations, and so on. She said that she used to keep everything, but now she kept only the final copies and threw the rest away.That struck me as a sensible way to go. When I …
Done, done, and done
For the last month, just as I thought I was nearing the finish line or reaching a milestone where I could catch my breath, another deadline or commitment loomed, both at work and at school. I spent last weekend binge-grading grant projects submitted by other teams in my Digital Preservation and Archiving class, reading an …
Generalisstimo
Rebecca at ProtoScholar has been on a tear of great posts lately. Her musings on being a generalist or specialist struck a special chord with me. One of the disadvantages I felt coming back to school is that I’m ignorant of a whole body of knowledge (library science, library processes, library history) that I think …
My big fat learning experience
I started the fall semester a younger and more idealistic man than I am here at the halfway point (fall break). Still, I survived (and thrived) and things are looking up. September was my transition month from going to grad school to being a grad student: that is, I can say now that if the …
Advice for a Forty-Odder from a Twenty-Something
At the Kilgour lectures, OCLC President Robert Jordan said some rather challenging things to the assembled SILS throng. As an MBA and business guy, he up front admitted that his ideas might rub people the wrong way (but then, so did Fred Kilgour’s). One of his ideas that stuck with me was his notion that, …
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