Cataloging is FUNdamental

https://twitter.com/adr/status/1220894739110801408 Seriously?  How is ALA not requiring this? When I went for my MLS there were four required classes at the Palmer School and (you guessed it) cataloging was one of them.  My professor was the man who literally wrote the chapter of AACR2R on music cataloging, but friends who had other professors learned just…

Finding my happy place

Week I'mNeverGoingToBeAbleToLeaveMyAparementAgainAmI wasn't been too bad. There was an AISL Boarding School Librarians chat on Monday, and I'm joining in a Mussar study group in Brooklyn (along with my father and an aunt). The sun is shining and it's getting warmer - maybe we won't see snow again until fall? But then there's the political…

I’ve been thinking a lot about this

The other day, I saw this tweet: https://twitter.com/rskudesia/status/1255907542380748801 Milton has a strong academic integrity policy, so clearly any students that got caught with this would face consequences.  Hamilton College (where I was a student) also had one so strong it led to the resignation of a President. There's a response to the tweet, that contrasts…

At the halfway point

It's been over one month since we "came back" from Spring Break and started classes online.  Milton chose to ramp up slowly: the first day of class was April 1, with a first assignment due no earlier than April 6.  Then we added in office hours.  Then one synchronous meeting per week.  When you have…