No one outgrows ghetto-rigging
So between the hole leading to my front door that’s covered with plywood and the small hole in my bathroom ceiling where it leaked from the plumbing in the apartment above me, I definitely feel like I’m back in college (or at least back in that crappy apartment I was in before I moved to the apartment on French Pl … I miss that apartment). Check it out:
Classy!!
Granted, it’s not as awesome a ghetto-rigging job as the one I pulled in the apartment on French that involved putting curtains up with a wire hanger wrapped around a Swiffer mop, but nice nonetheless.
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So onto more relevant things, I registered for next semester yesterday morning. Here is a list of the classes I’m taking:
532-1 Digital Government I: Information Technology and Democratic Politics 1.5 Credit(s)
- Steven J. Jackson
Course is the first in a two-part sequence exploring contemporary practices, challenges, and opportunities at the intersection of information technology and democratic governance. Whereas the second course focuses on challenges and innovations in democratic administration, this first course focuses on theories and practices of democratic politics and the shifting role of information technologies in supporting, transforming, and understanding these. The first half of the course seeks to ground contemporary discussion around IT and politics in various flavors of democratic and political theory. The second half builds on this foundation to explore ways in which information and information technologies have come to support, constrain, and otherwise inflect a range of contemporary democratic practices.
533-1 Digital Government II: Information Technology and Democratic Administration 1.5 Credit(s)
- Steven J. Jackson
Course is the second of a two-part sequence exploring contemporary practices, challenges, and opportunities at the intersection of information technology and democratic governance. Whereas the first course (SI 532) focuses on tensions and innovations in democratic politics, this course takes on emerging directions in democratic administration and the shifting role of information technologies in supporting, transforming, and understanding these. The first part of the course sets contemporary discussions of digital or “E-government” against a richer backdrop of administrative, bureaucratic, and organizational theory. The second part of the course explores a range of cases in which emergent informational forms and practices have entered — and in some cases, begun to alter — the traditional art and practice of goverment. Drawing on examples from local, state, federal, and international experience, students are encouraged to adopt a practical and appropriately critical take on the practice, problems, and possibilities for democratic administration in an increasingly IT-saturated age.
625-1 Digital Preservation 1.5 Credit(s)
- Elizabeth Yakel
This course was part of the original plan for building out the Preservation of Information specialization (si.umich.edu/msi/pi.htm). While SI 581 deals agnostically with both analog and digital Information, there is a need for a course that goes into greater depth about the status of digital preservation and highlights new developments and tools. This course fills a gap at SI and complements the other Preservation of Information courses and those in electronic records management.
626-1 Management of Libraries and Information Services 3 Credit(s)
- Tiffany C.E. Veinot
Information practice demands knowledge of all aspects of management and service delivery. This course introduces selected theories, principles and techniques of contemporary management science, and organizational behavior and their application to libraries and information services. Students develop skills in planning, organizing, personnel management, financial management, leading, marketing, stakeholder management, and coordinating functions in libraries and information services. Students also have the opportunity to think critically about, and reflect upon, contemporary management practice in information organizations.
Information professionals find that no matter whether they choose a career as a single entrepreneur, solo librarian, archivist, or whether they join a large organization, they become managers — of themselves, of clients or staff, and sometimes of substantial systems and services.
644-1 Advanced Preservation Administration 1.5 Credit(s)
- Elizabeth Yakel
Teaches advanced principles, policies, and procedures for managing information through its life cycle and protecting that information from loss, damage, deterioration, destruction, and obsolescence for as long as it has value. Building on the basic principles introduced in SI 581: “Preservation Administration,” this course focuses more on policy (e.g., selection) and managerial issues (outsourcing, copyright, and personnel).
647-1 Information Resources and Services 3 Credit(s)
- Darlene Nichols
* Learn about the information needs, information resources and delivery mechanisms available in both human and technology-based systems
* Study a representative sample of same and apply these sources to real-life situations
* Consider the on-going management and evaluation of systems and services designed to meet information needs
* Learn about likely developments and future research in this area
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All of the available courses can be found on SI’s online catalog here. And yes, I know that there are 6 courses listed above, but 4 of them are half-semester, so it’s still only 12 credits. So many interesting classes, and so little time. It’s weird knowing that I only have 4 semesters, and I’m already almost through the first one. I’m almost 25% of the way through grad school. So weird.
^^^ It’s much overdue, but I did want to post my Obama pumpkin from Halloween, also known as the Obampkin. My carving skills > yours.
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