Keep On Keeping On

Posted November 15, 2018 by Megan Ondricek

Well I survived “hump week” even though I had to drive up to class and back (and give a presentation) on about three hours of sleep. If you’ve been reading the other posts on this blog I think you’ll recognize a common theme: school is really hard and busy right now and we’re all exhausted. Actually I gave myself a tiny break from school work the first part of this week, mainly because I had so much housework and other things to catch up on. It was nice to have a short breather, but I am back at it today because the end of the semester is going to come up VERY quickly.

At the SLIS West office on Saturday we had a special day-in-the-life guest speaker: Amanda Pizzollo! Amanda was the SLIS West blogger before me and graduated the same year that I started. It was great to see her again (I am kicking myself that I did not get a photo for the blog) and hear all about her job at Amherst College as a metadata librarian. A large portion of her work involves describing archival objects and I was able to follow right along with everything she demonstrated in her presentation because we’ve been talking about the very same things in my archives class this semester. I’m fascinated by the ways in which the library, archives, and other cultural heritage fields intersect and I’d love to find myself in a professional position that straddles these separate – but related – disciplines. I think that’s the main reason I’m so interested in the metadata class: because metadata plays an important role in so many contexts.

Anyway, sorry for the short post again. This time next week I’ll be enjoying Thanksgiving with my family down in Virginia and registration will be behind us – meaning my final semester will be charted and mapped! Wishing everyone good luck with the weather and holiday travels!