So I am finally entering the last stages of my MLIS degree. It’s been 5 years since I started the program, but I am finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. But who the hell knows if I will be able to find a job. I was going to an internship this coming Fall semester, but the university cut registration and I had not yet finalized my work site. My official last class will be in Metadata. I am almost frightened to take it, since I did not take Cataloguing, but my advisor insists that Metadata is the way to go. Other than that, I have my internship and my final culminating e-portfolio, which is an electronic presentation of a portfolio that will show evidence of everything that I have learned in the last 5 years. Let’s hope and pray that I don’t fuck that one up. LOL! I am saying that in a joking manner. I am not exactly looking forward to it, but it’s what I have to do in order to graduate, so let’s just say that I don’t have a choice, but to do it.

But the class that I will be taking in the fall, which I finally paid for is described as such:

Principles and applications of metadata for resource representation and retrieval using various schemes. Includes metadata creation, management, and dissemination, especially for digital libraries. This course provides students opportunities to learn, evaluate, and apply principles of metadata for a variety of digital resources. Topics covered include metadata terminology, content and encoding schemes, applications of metadata standards for different purposes and environments, especially for digital libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage and scholarly digital repositories, and various approaches to metadata creation, storage, management, and dissemination, including harvesting and aggregating. This course will allow students to deepen their knowledge of organization of information, digital libraries and museums, institutional repositories, content management, and information architecture.

Other than my excitement about graduating in Spring 2010, I am also the co-chair / web coordinator for the American Library Association student chapter at San Jose State University, SLIS. We have lots of activities planned and I am I really am thrilled to be part of this group. I still work as a research / teacher assistant, and will continue to do so until I graduate. There is no way that I will quit this, since the husband will be getting 10% furlough cut. Any money will definitely help, no matter how small.

So that is my update on my school stuff. I still need to write about the kids and what they have been up to. Soon, I promise…

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