Binary America

Recently, I read yet another article pertaining to the digital divide. The Washington Post article—Binary America: Split in Two by a Digital Divide peaked by interest due to its take on who’s online? And who’s not? The article went beyond comparing the percentage of Americans who own a personal computer, but highlighted the percentage of Americans with access to broadband Internet versus modem dial-up. In addition, it spoke of the apparent lack of concern by the present presidential candidates toward the “Internet” and reducing the digital divide. As usual, libraries were mention as the only place where disadvantage people can go to access high-speed Internet.

Web designer

Working on this homepage assignment confirms what I already know--I'm not a web designer! I'll probably take a beginner's web design or html class once I complete the MLIS program because many librarian positions are asking for web design experience or at least the ability to maintain the library's site.

Home Page

I’m still working on my home page assignment. For some reason I thought this assignment would present me with little or no problems. However, republishing my site with the modifications (especially images) is taking me a little longer.

Librarians are hilarious

I finally received a day of rest on Friday after spending 6 days in Pittsburgh for the on-campus visit,and five hours in Philly's airport for a thirty-five minute flight home! Overall, I had a good time during my on-campus visit to the University of Pittsburgh. The campus was beautiful, I met a lot of interesting people in the Cohort, and the professors were great. I'm really glad I applied to Pitt! One thing that I learned on my visit that really surprised me was: Librarians are hilarious. The professors had a great sense of humor and so did a lot of the students.

Career Options

Today during the FastTrack on-campus learning experience, librarians from various types of libraries spoke to the cohort about their professional experiences. Academic, special, school, and public librarinship were all represented in the discussion. While they all advocated for their particular librarianship, I found the presentation by the academic librarian very informative. I don't know, maybe it's due to the position description hand-out that she shared with the group!

Now I'm considering looking at an academic instead of public librarianship. I also want to work with cataloguing old photographs and by working in university library I might get that opportunity. I think I'll talk to my advisor about that idea tomorrow!

Pittsburgh II

It's been three days now since I arrived in Pittsburgh to attend my on-site campus visit. The cohort seems like a good group of future librarians! Some students, like myself have no library experience, while the majority of students already work in a library.

I have taken a couple of pictures, and if they look ok I will post to the blog at a later day.

Pittsburgh

I’ve been very busy today preparing to leave for Pittsburgh for my first FastTrack weekend. I’m looking forward to meeting the members of Cohort 7 that I didn’t meet on the tour at the Library of Congress in June. Well—I’m going to get back to the Kompzer assignment which is giving me a slight problem.