Coursework
LIS 505: Introduction to Archival Management
This course involved four short reaction papers on varying aspects of archival therory:
My final project was to create an EAD finding aid for an archival collection at UNCG using a folder list as my only resource. I completed the biographical and scope and content notes as well as the EAD encoding. The finding aid is now being used online by UNCG University Archives:
LIS 600: Foundations of Library and Information Studies
In this course, I completed three major papers: a research paper on a current issue facing libraries, an action research project, and the original version of my professional values statement:
- The Advertiser-Dependent Search Engine and Its Implications for Information Professionals
- Determining Selection Priorities for Digitization Projects within the North Carolina Collection of the Forsyth County Public Library
- Professional Values Statement
LIS 604: History of the Library
This course required three book reviews:
- Review of Martin, Carnegie Denied: Communities Rejecting Carnegie Library Construction Grants, 1898-1925
- Review of Plummer, Libraries, Immigrants, and the American Experience
- Review of Wiegand, Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey
LIS 615: Collection Management
Major coursework in this class consisted of a wiki and bibliography on a collection development issue and a group project in which a collection management policy was created:
- Preservation and Digitization of Historical Document Collections
- Collection Management Policy for the Visual Resource Library at Liberal Arts University
LIS 620: Information Sources and Services
The major project for this class was a pathfinder bibliography on a subject of my choosing:
- The History of the American Shopping Center (Bibliography)
LIS 630: Computer-Related Technologies for Information Management
Coursework in this class consisted of message board postings, experiments with web design and Web 2.0 technologies, and short answer reaction questions. The final project was an interview with a library IT administrator:
LIS 631: Emerging Trends
Coursework in this class consisted of message board postings, four short papers on various topics and one final project:
- ILS Selection
- Journal Finder
- Web 2.0
- Digital Reference
- Open Source Website Content Management Systems
LIS 640: Organizing Library Collections
This course covered the basics of cataloguing and classification.
LIS 650: Library Administration and Management
Coursework in this class consisted of message board postings and short answer reaction questions. Major projects were an interview with a library IT administrator, an “ideal vision” paper, a management treatise, and a needs assessment:
- Library Administrator Interview
- My Ideal Vision: Managing and Leading the Perfect Library
- Management Treatise
- Needs Assessment
LIS 690: Independent Study - Library Management
This independent study expanded on the needs assessment project from LIS 650.
LIS 690: Digitization and Metadata
This independent study involved evaluating materials for a proposed new course on digitization and metadata, and culminated in a final evaluation:
Other Projects:
- Finding Aid for the Ceasar and Martha Cone Papers
Completed while serving as the 2009 Craighead Davidson intern at the Greenboro Historical Museum. - Civil Rights Greensboro
Served as project intern on this digitization project with Digital Projects at UNCG’s Jackson Library.