Hard To Believe The Semester Is Almost Over

Posted March 31, 2025 by Mary Kassman

With only a few weeks left, it is hard to believe that this semester is almost over! With every week, my knowledge of the Library and Information Science field continues to grow along with my passion to keep learning new things.

In my Digital Stewardship class (LIS 448) we are wrapping up a group project where we digitized and created an online collection of different pieces of art from around Boston. This project, and class,  has really taught how important good metadata and description is when it comes to creating digital resources and surrogates. Fostering users’ access to the information they are looking for is at the heart of what we do as information professionals, and that can’t be executed well if there are no good descriptions and access points that aid in its discoverability.  I am seeing this also reflected in my photographic archives class (LIS 471) as well. We have been analyzing multiple different online photographic collections to see what works and what does not when it comes to organization and description.

The class that has surprised me the most this semester is Technology for Information Professionals (LIS 488). Over the past two months I have gone from having zero understanding of how coding and the technology in computers work, to being able to code in HTML, CSS, and Python, building my own website, and programming a small computer to block ads on my wifi network. It truly amazes me how much I have learned from this class and how much I am enjoying despite my initial hesitation I had going into it. Learning about technology is not as intimidating as it might seem, and you might actually end up enjoying it! This semester has been so informative and I am looking forward to what the end of this semester and next one will hold.