End of Term

The end of the summer session...what a relief. I think I am finally done with my Pitt webpage (http://www.pitt.edu/~rdb2). It probably needs some tweaking but I'm not sure if there anything else I can do. I can only hope that I did all the assignments correctly and that I'll get a decent grade.

This technology class taught me a lot even after all the headaches in trying to finish the assignments. I know graduate school is not supposed to be easy but it was torture trying to do Zoomclouds and the tagging assignments. Well, to be fair, once in place, Del.icio.us, Connotea and EndNoteweb were easy to use. It was just a lot of work. But man oh man, Zoomclouds was a lot of problems! One day my cloud is there, the next day the site is in Spanish. Today, as I was publishing/uploading the Thoreau assignment Zoomclouds was acting up. I learned to ignore it, hoping that sooner or later, like the prodigal son, it will return.

Honestly, because I am working at a law firm library and if I stay in this field, I probably will have no need for most of the stuff we had to do. As I was doing the tagging assignment with Connotea, Zotero and EndNote, I kept thinking that they are ideal for academic libraries. For all that I had enjoyed the KOHA assignment, it seems like it will be ideal to use in a public library and not in a law firm library. However, I am grateful for all that I learned. I am sure I will not remember everything I learned but at least if there came a point in my career that I will switch paths and go into another field, I know I will not have a hard time re-learning the stuff. After all, knowledge learned is knowledge gained.

Thanks Dr. Tomer...for everything!