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The mishaps and musings of an aspiring librarian in library school. "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius

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Day 4 of #HLSDITL

Happy Halloween fellow #HLSDITL followers!

Today's post will be brief since I'm writing this as I'm in the middle of taking my Organization of Information Class. We're discussing authority control and controlled vocabularies, exciting stuff for library folks!

Below are some of the highlights of Day 4:

Processed article requests for patrons, order those we did not own in our collection

Attended our department's quarterly meeting and discussed the changes that have taken place since the previous quarter.

Entered articles into copy service as a way to track library usage

Placed a book on hold for a patron

Other highlights:

Created an image to go with my HLS post

Scheduled to have my Organization of Information class tonight from 8-10 p.m.

Ultimate highlight to my day?

I met Simba, a golden retriever therapy dog:

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Day 3 of #HLSDITL

Feeling a lot better than yesterday, I returned to work with a cup of delicious mint tea, ready to document my day for #HLSDITL :-)

Highlights of my day:

Because we’re a small library operation, I have to manually process overdue fines. So, I ran an overdue items report and checked it against patrons who received a notice and were still past due with their library materials. Afterwards I submitted the fine deductions to be processed by the payroll department.

Sometimes requests will come in for articles found in our print collection. We have a pretty extensive set of rolling shelves that house large volumes of older medical journals. Today, I scanned quite a few old medical articles from large bound journal sets and converted them to PDF files.

I worked on my first draft for my Hack Library School post during my lunch break. I was finally able to submit my first draft for review by the HLS team. I received some initial feedback and am working on its revision in time to be published this Friday, November 1st.

One useful tool I used today?

Pubmed.gov

Often times, when requesting a journal article we do not own, it makes it convenient to search for its PMID (Pubmed ID) in order to quickly process document delivery requests through Docline. If the article is indexed by the National Library of Medicine into the Medline database, the PMID of the article could searched for on the Pubmed.gov site.

Here’s how:

If you know the article’s citation, use the Single Citation Matcher feature on the site.

Go to the bottom of the abstract to locate the PMID.

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Day 2 of #HLSDITL

So today I woke up with a lovely monster headache and serious congestion. I’m officially fighting a cold, so I was not able to list some of the tasks I would have done today, due to my absence at work.

But, library life does not end at the actual library! No, no no. Instead I took some time today to work on my first Hack Library School blog post. I’m feeling a little nervous, since this will officially make me a contributing writer, but I’m also extremely excited at the same time.

I can’t go into too many details, but it will be posted this Friday on the Hack Library School blog :-)

If you haven’t heard about this neat site…check it out here:

www.hacklibschool.wordpress.com

And be sure to see what other library students have tweeted regarding their “Day in the Life” by looking it up as #HLSDITL on www.twitter.com

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Day 1 of #HLSDITL

Welcome to my first post of Hack Library School's Library Student Day In The Life! I'm what you might consider a non-traditional student, so I work full-time and go to library school part-time. Below are some highlights of my day: Worked on Docline requests (other libraries asking to obtain a copy of a journal article we might own) Worked on article requests (patrons asking to obtain a copy of a journal article) Checked in circulation materials Checked office mail for new journals and periodicals Attended a library webinar on image & professional conduct Things that I'm working on now: Considering membership into library association Working on my first blog post for Hack Library School Working on a paper for my Organization of Information course discussing RDA & AACR2 Classes attending this evening: Usability Analysis

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Library Student Day in the Life #HLSDITL

Hack Library School, a blog for library students, about library students is participating in the second round of Library Student Day in the Life. 

This is the first time I'll be participating, but if you are a curious creature like me and want to see how other library students handle the work/life balance of taking graduate classes, participating in library groups, writing for Hack Library School (that will be me), or even how to cope with working in a library while going to school, then come join us for the week of October 28-November 1st.

Check out the link below to find out how you can get involve, or at least follow those who will be participating =]

http://hacklibschool.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/hlsditl-round-2/

Ciao for now!

-msbooksy

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Syntax Errors Matter!

Why? Because when you write out your php file, that corresponds with your web page, which contains the database you created in MySQL Workbench, that you forward-engineered to make sure it populates in your Secure Shell SSH terminal, it should show up on the browser.

If not and you get an HTTP500 Error? Well then, there's a sneaky little syntax error, probably on line 1, that you can verify with the command line in the Secure Shell SSH terminal:

 error_reporting(E_ALL);

But, this very amusing error, is hiding better than Where's Waldo in a candy cane factory :-( So syntax errors do matter, because no web page, means no database, means incomplete assignment and you wanting to blurt out lots and lots of expletives in the wee hours of the morning.

-Ms. Booky

Fan of MySQL or any other programming language?

Recommend any language to learn first for beginners?