Oh, Hello There
Apologies for the sparse posting. I have not only been without proper internets since mid-December, I also managed to get sick within 24 hours of finally getting wifi set up in my apartment.
Now that I have internets again, expect much wailing and ranting. Most of it nonsensical.
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At the moment I am pretending that I am not getting a dehydration headache and that I am further along in unpacking than I really am. All so that I can try and get some of the homework done that is due tomorrow. Because, oh! yes - classes began last Wednesday.
(Why Wednesday? and not Monday? I do not know. I really don't.)
I am taking TWO classes this semester. Because I am crazy. But also because this lets me take a break during the summer and lets me defer my loan payments for a third of the year.
Class the first is Materials for Teens, ages 15-18. So expect more book reviews. (finally!)
The second class is Vocabulary Design. And omgoodness ppls, is this a nerdy class. :) So far we are discussing thesauri and indexes and reviewing what constitutes a document.* I suspect I may be wanting to purchase myself a subscription to the Visual Thesaurus fairly soon, for when we start getting into the nitty gritty of deciding if something is a barn or a stable.** Not to mention for when we start talking about how one creates useful metadata for documents on the internets.
But for now, I am going to have some dessert and then go to bed. I hope February finds you all happy and in good health.
*Can a dog itself be a document? Or does it need to be a picture of a dog? Personally, I am of the opinion that if the item itself is being housed or stored for the purpose of being able to retrieve it for research, it can be referred to as a document. Which might include an actual physical dog...if the poor thing was being kept for testing. Or perhaps was in a zoo? Or was already dead and had been stuffed for display. Otherwise...I'm not sure why one would care. You can certainly call your pet dog, Spot, a document if you wish, but what would the the purpose of doing so, other than engage in an intellectual game?
**Do we need both terms for our catalog thesaurus? If we do, how do we determine which documents get which label?
Now that I have internets again, expect much wailing and ranting. Most of it nonsensical.
****
At the moment I am pretending that I am not getting a dehydration headache and that I am further along in unpacking than I really am. All so that I can try and get some of the homework done that is due tomorrow. Because, oh! yes - classes began last Wednesday.
(Why Wednesday? and not Monday? I do not know. I really don't.)
I am taking TWO classes this semester. Because I am crazy. But also because this lets me take a break during the summer and lets me defer my loan payments for a third of the year.
Class the first is Materials for Teens, ages 15-18. So expect more book reviews. (finally!)
The second class is Vocabulary Design. And omgoodness ppls, is this a nerdy class. :) So far we are discussing thesauri and indexes and reviewing what constitutes a document.* I suspect I may be wanting to purchase myself a subscription to the Visual Thesaurus fairly soon, for when we start getting into the nitty gritty of deciding if something is a barn or a stable.** Not to mention for when we start talking about how one creates useful metadata for documents on the internets.
But for now, I am going to have some dessert and then go to bed. I hope February finds you all happy and in good health.
*Can a dog itself be a document? Or does it need to be a picture of a dog? Personally, I am of the opinion that if the item itself is being housed or stored for the purpose of being able to retrieve it for research, it can be referred to as a document. Which might include an actual physical dog...if the poor thing was being kept for testing. Or perhaps was in a zoo? Or was already dead and had been stuffed for display. Otherwise...I'm not sure why one would care. You can certainly call your pet dog, Spot, a document if you wish, but what would the the purpose of doing so, other than engage in an intellectual game?
**Do we need both terms for our catalog thesaurus? If we do, how do we determine which documents get which label?