Reflection & Analysis

This class was fun! I've often told people that my dream job is to be a secretary; and while not actually true, it is the skills needed to perform that job that I like - the organization and communication of information to make it readily available and accessible to a manager or a team. 

The main we reason that we must organize information is so that it can be found. This class took us through some of the ways in which this type of information is organized.  One of the things that stood out to me from one of the lectures was the idea that "information objects have two aspects: information container and information content." The container is where the information is found or how the information is packaged. The content is the "intellectual content," or rather, the information itself. And as a librarian, it is important that both of these aspects be documented and organized in order to be found.

The final project was another collaborative work. With two other colleagues, I created a collection from scratch that featured different information containers and worked to determine ways to organize them using some of the systems we had been taught. We made decisions on fields and indexes and determined if certain fields would be searchable. We provided definitions on everything for clarity and then created records for a number of objects in the collection. It provided a deeper understanding of organizing information.