This week was push week and so much got accomplished. I feel like the end is in sight and I think we’re all feeling positive about the direction of the project.
On Monday, Laurie and I sat down to finalize the organizational scheme for the books. We decided on the following scheme, with the main title [...]
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Wrapping this pup up!
Posted in goals, labeling, objectives, users, tagged categorization, materials collection, materials library, organization, photos, poster, print library on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tying things up
Posted in goals, labeling, objectives, tagged capstone, cataloging, materials library, poster session, print collection, print library on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The last couple of weeks have been a bit up in the air for the project, due to a number of unforeseeable things that came up on both ends. Not really anything to get concerned about, since the project is expected to kick into overdrive this coming week.
I’m spending Monday, Tuesday, and all of Wednesday [...]
Catching up on a couple of weeks
Posted in goals, objectives, users, tagged cataloging, goals, LibraryThing, progress, scanning, sustainable, tagging on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The weeks leading up to this were less research packed, so they didn’t quite warrant a lengthy post or two about them. But this week, things began to pick up for the project. Fd2s purchased an account with LibraryThing which they have made private. This week, I’ll have gone in for about 15 hours to [...]
Moving forward
Posted in goals, objectives, tagged LibraryThing, materials library, organizing ideas, print collection on September 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This past week, I met with Gwen and Laurie, as well as the information technology guru at fd2s, to discuss options for creating the online catalog component. I decided putting everything in a digital format would be easiest, and when everything is in one place, we will be better able to manipulate the physical locations [...]
Week 3 progress
Posted in goals, research, tagged goals, organizing ideas, research, users on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Week three has been all about compiling ideas. I ended up not going in on Tuesday and rescheduled for this coming Tuesday. In doing so, I’ve been working on building a couple of prototypes for the print collection’s digital component. I have a feeling that once I have all of the titles in one place [...]
Setting up the capstone project
Posted in goals, objectives, tagged background, goals, objectives, outcomes on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After a really painless process of writing out the project plan, gathering signatures, and getting approval, I am set to begin my capstone with fd2s and their libraries. Here’s a general synopsis of the project and goals for both the facility and for my own education:
The objective of this project is to research and propose [...]
