http://deviner.net conjecture Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:31:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The great thing about going to ALA is that there is so much to do - but it means that while I'm there my email gets ignored and when I get back I have to catch up! I still have so many things to write about from ALA, but at ... http://deviner.net/archives/44/spectrum-wrap-up/ Second day of the Institute? Also awesome (you'll note a trend). In the morning we had a session on the origins of the Spectrum Scholarship. We learned about how it started and all the hard work that was put in by people like Elizabeth Martinez, Sandra Rios ... http://deviner.net/archives/43/spectrum-institute-day-2/ The first day of the Spectrum Institute has been awesome. It's such an inspiration to hear about the cool things that other students are doing, and the great support that's available. We had an ice breaker game this afternoon called Spectrum Bingo, where everyone had a list of attributes ... http://deviner.net/archives/42/spectrum-institute-day-1/ Wow, it's been a long time since I've done anything here. I decided that Drupal wasn't really working for me, because it's a bit more complicated than what I want to deal with just to have a blog and a few pages, so the past couple days I've spent ... http://deviner.net/archives/41/long-time-no-see/ I took a class on Genealogy in Libraries this summer. It focused largely on how to provide reference services to patrons interested in genealogy, such as formalizing the research process, knowing the sources available, and evaluating sources. As I mentioned in this post, we had to write a research report on ... http://deviner.net/archives/28/uk-wales/ I completed my genealogy final on Saturday, which means I have a bit of a break until my fall classes start. Granted, the break is only a week, really. Remember how I said that I have a lot of on-campus meetings for my fall classes? On Saturday and Sunday, I ... http://deviner.net/archives/12/a-little-break-then-some-cataloging/ Summer classes, had me a blast, Summer classes, happened so fast... (I'll stop parodying Grease music now.) Okay, sometimes (especially at the beginning of the semester) I think I'm crazy for taking classes over the Summer, but I had a lot of fun with them, especially the genealogy class. The amount of reading ... http://deviner.net/archives/11/summer-classes/ I've been remiss in writing about the other days of ALA because afterwards, I went to Chicago for a few days of vacation, then when I got home I had to dive back into my classes. In any case, here are somewhat abbreviated recaps: On Sunday, I was up early so ... http://deviner.net/archives/10/ala-sunday-monday-and-tuesday/ On Saturday, I met up with a fellow SJSU student. We're both serving as ALASC officers and planned to try to get in touch, then managed to randomly find each other around the registration area. I went to a panel about research, which included talks about an ethnography of college ... http://deviner.net/archives/9/ala-saturday/ The stuff I did on Friday wasn't actually at the convention center, but it was related to ALA. My friend Mike and I went into DC and I had to get my hair braided for the honor dance that afternoon. Unfortunately, at the salon I chose, none of the hairdressers ... http://deviner.net/archives/8/ala-friday/