This week was the first week of classes. All three of my classes look like they're going to be really interesting and challenging in a fun kind of way. One of them, Understanding and Serving Users, requires reading seven different books - the first of which I have yet to receive in the mail. I think they'll all be keepers, I find user interaction really fascinating. I'm super excited about this semester. In my digital libraries class we will be creating our library for the Harry Ransom Centers materials on the Hitchcock movie Spellbound. I am going to watch it this weekend - I'll let you know what I think.
As interesting as my classes are, the first day always sucks. You just go over the syllabus in excruciating detail in order to take up the three entire hours of class. Hence this little drawing I did, among many others and much to the amusement of the people sitting next to me. Hey, I don't have a laptop so I've got to entertain myself somehow.
In my other class, Protection and Care, the first day was actually really fun. We spent half of it coming up with a fake class library. The professor told us to just come up with something and left us completely on our own. I'm not sure that was wise. We will use this library throughout the semester as an example of how certain things, like climate and space affect a wide range of materials. The library our creative class came up with was the Neil Young Canadian National Christmas Museum and Archive. It's a one room cottage in between a ski resort and national park in Canada. It houses such collections as 26 historic Santa costumes, two gingerbread houses, thousands of letters to Santa and a taxidermied reindeer. I'm thinking this is going to be a good class.
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