So, I've never written a blog before, this is a completely new experience for me. I think I had way to much fun setting up my private personal settings, perhaps the point? User Systems and all that jazz at work maybe?
So what did I take away from class today? I was shocked about the Wikipedia fact. In my undergrad at Cortland (in History) I was taught by my professors never to use Wikipedia. It is a "democratic encyclopedia" and they would fail anyone that used it as a citation. So when Prof. Lankes said it was the most used citation source by Librarians I was completely floored, like mouth hanging open and everything. Surprised no one else noticed me. It's been ingrained in me that it's not a reliable source of any sort. Further knowledge that History majors are stuck in the past, ha-ha.
And I'm a hundred percent positive that the above statement is exactly what we were supposed to take out of class today. Wikipedia was the complete point of the lecture. So I will try now to be more relevant to the assignment.
What else.....
So I love the fact that 511 is like a forum class. We come in and we discuss what we want to discuss, in a way. Structured chaos I guess. I wish we could have a course of that sort every semester.If I'm correct in my thinking, one of the points of this course is if I didn't think of a question while in class, which I never do, I could have the option of asking it in a relevant atmosphere. Which is awesome! And it would be open to discussion to basically the same group of people that would be in the other class with me anyways.
I also enjoyed the fact that we looked at Libraries through the ages today. I know so many people that think that the Librarian profession was created by Benjamin Franklin. DRIVES ME CRAZY! I mean come on! Illuminated texts! Alexandria! "The Book of the Dead!" Again, History major! I can go on for hours.
I do have to say, that up until just a couple weeks ago, I was one of those people who thought books=libraries. But the more reading I've done and the more I've attempted to understand the giant leap I've just taken, I've realized exactly what I have not been getting out of my school libraries, ha-ha. I never realized that librarians were there for that! Help me with my research! I'm sorry, but I've never had a librarian come up and offer to help me with my research, and if they did, I did not realize that's what they were trying to convey to me.
I'm such a book person. I don't have a kindle and I don't know if I want one. I love opening a book, smelling a book, handling books. When I see or get to handle a big old ancient book I get that chill down my back when I think of other people who have touched and used this book as well. I interact with my books in ways that people can't interact with a computer screen. I write in them, highlight them to death, buy a second one so I have a fresh copy sitting around, thumb the pages and smell that sweet booky smell. If the world around me got rid of books entirely I would not be a very happy individual.
Um....I'm not sure what else to write, as soon as I set this in stone I'll think of this brilliant thing to write and I'll just have to comment on my own blog. Hope that this was a "typical" blog and that I'm not missing anything here.
2 comments:
I am a Kindle owner, but there is nothing like holding a book and turning the pages. The sound of the pages turning, the dusty paper smell, and the feeling of meeting a good friend are all things that I love about books. Good to know I'm not the only one.
My favorite part about walking into a library and getting into the stacks is the smell of the books. I've had people tell me how weird I am because of that.
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