Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Blog post 1
You can tell I'm great with coming up with creative blog post titles! The idea was that we use our first post to introduce ourselves, so I'll just do that. I'm a first-year MIS student, coursework option, Library and Info St stream, main interests are public policy, intellectual freedom, and government censorship and regulations with respect to individual access to information. I hope to complete a second MA and eventually pursue a career in the public library system. My reasons for taking this course are: 1) it's required 2) Being a librarian is all about having and imparting research skills, and I hope to improve mine through this course.
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Hey readers! I'm another member of group 5 and am also in my first year of the MI program (LIS stream). I have a background in European Studies from UofT, and love taking a multi-disciplinary approach to learning. I'm interested in academic libraries, as well as government and international organizations, and I'm excited to see where things go from here!
ReplyDeleteUnlike most of my fellow students, I have little interest in libraries, archives, or pursuing a profession in either field.
ReplyDeleteI have a background in Political Science from UBC, and have taken courses in History of Technology and Anthropology of Technology at U of T. At UBC, I focused on Cold War-era nuclear relations, and spent lots of time looking at the communications infrastructure that developed as a result (most notably, the technologies and systems now recognized as a direct predecessor to the internet).
Currently, I am interested in embedded surveillance, wearable computing, and information ubiquity (and resulting ennui). I plan to do a thesis in my 2nd year that will, hopefully, tie some of these themes together.
It is always good to know, study together, work with, and most important, make friends with someone who has diversed background. Personally, I am very cultural oriented and I like to explore different cultural characteristics and different ways of thinking attitudes and problem resolution methods.
ReplyDeleteI am not in the LIS stream. I have no interest in being a full-time librarian, but somehow I am working in a UofT library for more than a year now -- still having a bit fun of it, not tiring of it, and mostly -- money matters.
I am in the ARM stream, mainly because I like to do provenance research and I would like to be an art researcher. My UofT undergrad curatorial study prof. thinks that I will be a good fit into the ARM path, so here I am.
Although at this moment I still have no idea of any specific research topic, but I do know that eventually I will do something culturally or art historically related,but first of all, it should be related to the archival concept.