a wee bit confused

So for those of you taking Understanding Info. is this blog for both classes? I am often confused by the assignments that are referenced and Db remarks that you make. I took LIS2000 many moons ago so I only 1/2 remember some of the things y'all are mentioning.

I am feeling generally more at ease with this class after having completed asn 2 but I already feel like I am running out of things to blog about. Maybe I just have a poor attention span, I started a personal blog last summer an posted to it twice before loosing interest. Perhaps I am fickle?

overwhelmed with information

I feel like all of this technology and information sharing in the web 2.0 world is great but I often feel that we overwhelm patrons with information. They want a monologue that is suitable for a teenage girl trying out for a performing arts high school and we give them 5 books, 6 websites, 3 articles and 6 related blogs and then their eyes glaze over or they have now become afraid of the amount of information that we are able to access for them. Is that really the future of librarianship?

There is NO time like the present.

I thought (it turns out erroneously) that this semester would be a breeze since I have only one class to take. I just can't seem to find enough time to get everything done. I guess I am just going to have to hone my multitasking skills to a much finer point. I feel like I spend hours just reading the blog posts. OK I will stop whining now. And go to my happy place.

Good Luck classmates!

Canned Intro

I am going to post my standard introduction (with a few modifications) here:

Hello. My name is Cat Eiche. This is my 6th semester in the LIS-SLCP program. I spent last semester completing a Practicum in a high school library, it was an interesting and enlightening experience. I have I high hopes that I will soon finish the program.

I spent a year and 4 months living in Pittsburgh’s South Side (before that I lived in Seattle, WA) attending classes full time on-campus. I also worked for 6 months (6/08-12/08) at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main) in the Teen Department. However, I have now switched to the Fast-Track program to finish up my degree. I have moved temporarily back to the small town where I grew up, which is near Reading, Pa and quite close to Pottsville, PA (home of the Yuengling Brewery) in eastern PA.