* New * For Folks About to Take Comps:

1. Review your notes in your favorite way.

2. As you go, make a list of articles and books that you know you'll want to cite. (Here's one I made.)

3. Use old questions to guide your studies.

4. What follows are my links, notes, and to-do lists from last year.

5. Remember, it's Pass / Fail.

Generally Useful Things:

Class notes from Alane
Benton Foundation: "Buildings, Books, Bytes" (for stats supporting the notion that People Like Libraries)
Some more on copyright:

• Fair use
• Copyright Chart
• General
  

A glossary

A few words on Seattle's new library and the place of 21st century libraries, by me.

Also thinking about the 21st century: blogs and RSS.

Study Schedule

Meeting 1

-         Share (aloud) classes we’ve taken (quick list; maybe note key themes)

-         Bring class notes for other group members to photocopy

-         Write down: themes from across classes and review of old comps questions (http://slis.cua.edu/Programs/compquestions/) themes we know are important

→ Given that, and off the tops of our heads (and/or from class notes) what are areas of study? For example, out of 557 we need to be able to cite Gorman, Y, and Z. (too much?)

My To Do List

Reread all class notes (Done: Spec Coll; Preservation; Info Source & Services; Organization of Information; Information Systems; Libraries & Info in Society).

Review Gorman.

Meeting 2

-         clarify anything that has stumped us in review

My To Do List

Practice outlining essays, at least.

Move on to essay writing.

Compile list of about 25 works I can readily site, about 6 topics of expertise.