September 27, 2015

 Around 1:30AM one of the smoke alarms apparently started chirping. My mom took the battery out of it but I think that is just a backup in case of a power outage because all the alarms are wired into the house. So I had to get up on a chair and unplug it. These alarms are definitely setting up a boy who cried wolf scenario because so far they have been more grief than helpful

I could have gotten up early but I ended up staying in bed until nine o'clock, which was pretty nice. Then I kind of worked on my metadata assignment. The bulk of the work happened after lunch, when I finished up my reflection and the lengthy reference section. At first I just had the things I referenced in my reflection but then I decided to include the digital resources I used and the resources I used to find all the metadata information. I posted just the reflection to the discussion thread and then after dinner, when I read through the whole thing again and made a couple edits, I submitted the assignment.

Also after dinner I came up with my research proposal for my academic libraries class. At first I wanted to look at how usage has changed in the digital age in terms of circulation of physical materials. Then I looked at the instructions which said we could pick anything we wanted except for stuff about materials and collections, two boxes which my original idea kind of ticked. So I switched it to how academic libraries are being used now that a lot of students get the information they need online, either from places like Google or through the digital resources of the library, like online databases. How do librarians keep the building itself relevant if the physical resources are no longer a draw. I think it is an interesting idea and hopefully I was able to word it well enough that the professor also thinks it is a decent idea. It would also be nice if I could find a plethora of information on the topic. I would prefer to have too many sources to pick from than not enough.

Tonight there was a supermoon lunar eclipse. It was better than the lunar eclipse for several reasons. To start, it wasn't in the middle of the night, it started not too long after eight o'clock. Second, it was in our backyard, not in the front of the house, so I didn't have to worry about the neighbor calling the cops on me for sitting in my own driveway. The sprinklers didn't come on and soak me. And the weather wasn't nice. I remember last year being cold because I was wearing a hoodie and a stocking cap, and because I was wet from the sprinklers. So it was a much better time.

Now I'm probably going to go to bed. We're done with full-class testing but there are still a few stragglers that need to finish up this week. Hopefully most of them will do it during their normal lab time so I don't have to spend my free time watching kids test.