Information Overload

Today we had both a two-hour talk on Smarter Surfing with Dean Sreenivasan (our Dean of Students and tech/web/new-media specialist) and a 90-minute Research Training session with Deborah Wassertzug, the J-school Librarian. Both really valuable. Both completely worthwhile. But by the end of the Research Training session, my head was about to explode. It probably didn’t help that our RWI class was the 13th and last group to receive the research training (the first group had their session two weeks ago).

After the research training, Professor Padwe called an impromptu RWI class -- mainly, I think, to reassure those of us feeling overmatched by our assignment. (Count me in.)

I spent the rest of the day furiously researching Joseph Rodman Drake Park, which included a long phone interview with the Parks Department Librarian, a follow-up visit to the J-school Librarian, and a lot of quality time with a reference librarian at the University’s Art and Architecture Library. I don’t know who your heroes are, but today mine are the librarians of the world.

National Library Week is April 2-8, 2006. Rock on!

Quote of the day:

There are going to be days when you just get nothing. --Sandy Padwe