At 6:34 a.m. on Tuesday, July 12, I figured it out.
Anticipating a move to Boston and considering graduate schools there, I was browsing the internet when I landed on Simmons’ nutrition program, a field I’ve been toying with since college. But when the nutrition program didn’t strike a chord, I thought, “why not examine what else Simmons offers?”
And that’s when the connection was made. As I browsed Simmons’ library and information science classes, my excitement bubbled: history of the book, cataloging, book publishing and librarianship, metadata, visual communication. This is what I’ve been searching for!
Jenna Freedman, Associate Director of Communications and Zine Librarian at Barnard College Library, is quoted by Marilyn Johnson in This …show more content…
With an eye for detail and methodical work, I look forward to diving into courses on cataloging, classification, indexing, and thesaurus construction. I would like to apply these skills to work as a catalog librarian in a special collection of a public library, academic library, or cultural institution. I am also interested in learning about metadata, particularly its applications in digital publishing, and taxonomy, a field which I discovered through Simmons’ podcast Beyond the Stacks: Innovative Careers in Library & Information Science. I look forward to Simmons, too, for the experiential learning opportunities offered in Boston’s rich cultural institutions. After reading on Simmons’ student blog about internships at places like the American Archive for Public Broadcasting at WGBH Boston, America’s Test Kitchen, and Boston Symphony Orchestra, I can’t wait to delve into my own …show more content…
The sheer amount of data in the world today is overwhelming. How do we process all of this data? And is that data any good? How much of it is worth saving and for how long? While it may seem that access to information is ubiquitous today, there are real gaps in access to computers and the internet. How can libraries bridge this gap? And then there is the challenge of perception. While the public may see libraries and librarians as immaterial in the digital age, how do we communicate the relevancy of the skills of librarians and the tools at their
Anticipating a move to Boston and considering graduate schools there, I was browsing the internet when I landed on Simmons’ nutrition program, a field I’ve been toying with since college. But when the nutrition program didn’t strike a chord, I thought, “why not examine what else Simmons offers?”
And that’s when the connection was made. As I browsed Simmons’ library and information science classes, my excitement bubbled: history of the book, cataloging, book publishing and librarianship, metadata, visual communication. This is what I’ve been searching for!
Jenna Freedman, Associate Director of Communications and Zine Librarian at Barnard College Library, is quoted by Marilyn Johnson in This …show more content…
With an eye for detail and methodical work, I look forward to diving into courses on cataloging, classification, indexing, and thesaurus construction. I would like to apply these skills to work as a catalog librarian in a special collection of a public library, academic library, or cultural institution. I am also interested in learning about metadata, particularly its applications in digital publishing, and taxonomy, a field which I discovered through Simmons’ podcast Beyond the Stacks: Innovative Careers in Library & Information Science. I look forward to Simmons, too, for the experiential learning opportunities offered in Boston’s rich cultural institutions. After reading on Simmons’ student blog about internships at places like the American Archive for Public Broadcasting at WGBH Boston, America’s Test Kitchen, and Boston Symphony Orchestra, I can’t wait to delve into my own …show more content…
The sheer amount of data in the world today is overwhelming. How do we process all of this data? And is that data any good? How much of it is worth saving and for how long? While it may seem that access to information is ubiquitous today, there are real gaps in access to computers and the internet. How can libraries bridge this gap? And then there is the challenge of perception. While the public may see libraries and librarians as immaterial in the digital age, how do we communicate the relevancy of the skills of librarians and the tools at their