It's Been Great

I have truly enjoyed my introduction to technology and libraries. I have learned so much and made many worthwhile connections. Thank you, Professor and all my classmates. Good luck to all and enjoy your summer! See you in the fall.

Take care,
Cherese

Print on Demand and Libraries

Print on Demand and Libraries

 Introduction

What is Print on Demand, Publish on Demand, or POD services? This is “the printing technologies and associated business model under which smaller numbers of books, as few as a single copy, are printed only after an order has been received” (Dougherty, 2009).

Two Days...l'm Probably Rambling

As I sit pondering these last three weeks,  I am ecstatic that I have two days left.

I am also terrified that I have two days left.

 It seems like all the words are running together on the pages I'm trying to read. Are any of my discussion posts making sense? I don't know. I should get back to working on my paper.  Instead I check Twitter and my emails. Then I realize I need another blog post. So here I am after midnight contemplating the insides of my eyelids. I call it brainstorming.

I haven't learned to read with my eyes closed but I did discover HTML articles that read to me and podcasts and vodcasts that require no eye work. That will be as close as I get. I'm looking forward to seeing how I did grade-wise. It's been an interesting adventure. I can't wait to get my "I survived Maymester!" T-shirt. I believe Donna is hunting for someone to print them up. I hope I can get a blue one. 

First Day Jitters

Hello, I'm Cherese. I decided that I wanted to be a librarian some day. So I enrolled into an ALA-accredited university near me, namely Valdosta State University in Valdosta, GA. I survived my first semester of two classes while working part-time, taking care of two young children, a husband, and then my house flooded. It's dry now and I amazingly passed both classes.

Then I thought, "Hey, let's do this again!" So, I enrolled in Applied Tech Library Practice during Maymester. This is a 3-credit course that packs 16-weeks of information into 3-weeks. Am I nervous?... Let's come back to that question.

I checked my syllabus and began. I read and read (there's a lot of reading) and read and read, until I was pretty sure I didn't remember a bit of it. So I decided to work on Assignment #1, this blog. I think this is the fun part. I'm not sure if it's off to a good start or not. Let me know.

Now am I nervous? Yes and no. It's obviously doable--others have survived. I just need to learn the art of reading in my sleep and I'll be fine.


So to see if I can do this, hop along on my Technology Adventure and find out.