the less creative title: day six

I spent the morning doing research for a class I will be teaching on the 18th, on interenet resources. I'm very excited to teach this class because it has a nice "something old/something new" component to it. The older material is older not becuase it is dayed, but because they are in an older format, namely as static web pages in HTML. The new stuff are things like blogs, wikis, and social software sites, along with blog search engines, tagging sites, and blog making sites. I was suprised, but probably shouldn't have been both at the quality and managability of classical and academic music blogs, etc. I feel that there are times and places for both in instruction, and I'm glad Laurie let me take a crack at them.

The second part of the morning was spent preparing for a consultation on music education sources, specifically arguements in support of it.

I spent the afternoon working with Anita, who pulls double duty as a cataloger and as a reference staffer. Because she's skilled at both, she has a great perspective on how well the catalog and cataloging functions for the user. Currently, III millenium does not let the generic logins for ref/circ look at the authority records, which not only provide the cross referencing, but often have a narrative explaination of why certain headings are used, which is invaluable for learing how to search a catalog. There was also some discussion on copy-cataloging, along with discussions on modifying copy, and the pitfalls of library vendor cataloging. The more I work with cataloging, the more interesting it sounds. I also feel like I am learing a lot about it, which is nice, and seems to be the case withg hands-on(ish) work in libraries.