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Artifact 1

Digital Manifesto on Mediating Digital Information

LIS 517: Introduction to Digital Cultures

In this short video I connect concepts from several sources used in the class to conclude that the future of librarians in an increasingly digital information environment will look quite different from the past.

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Final Cataloging Worksheet

LIS 530: Cataloging and Metadata Management

The final assignment in this class combined all the relevant skills we had learned to that point into a cataloging worksheet for a fictitious book.

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LIS 504 Issues Paper

LIS 504: Foundations of Library and Information Services

The LIS 504 issues paper allowed me the opportunity to explore an issue of my choice in a deeper level of detail than any other assignment in the course. I chose to write about the history of library cataloging technologies and the approaches to and challenges of modernizing the library catalog.