The summer's almost over!

Last weekend I turned in my first big paper in my Information Organization class, so I was thinking we the summer semester must be half over. I looked at the calendar for the rest of the semester and realized it's almost over! Including this week, there are only four more weeks left!

For some reason, this summer semester has just flown by much faster than any other semester so far. It's been busy, but not too busy, and I've had a lot of homework, but not too much homework. The two classes I'm taking work really well together, I think, and that may have helped some.

All that's left now is one more big paper in Information Organization, and a final paper in References Services about my experience answering questions for the IPL (which thankfully, I answered all three questions I needed to early on before the homework level really picked up in both classes and the competition to claim questions picked up as well). Obviously there's also the usual weekly readings and discussion board posts, but those aren't too bad.

The Internet Public Library

In my reference services class, one of our big projects is to answer real questions that get submitted to the Internet Public Library's Ask an IPL Librarian service. Over the course of the semester, we have to answer three real questions from people and then write a paper about the experience.

Over the weekend I completed the pre-quiz, got my login information, and completed my practice question which I submitted for evaluation. Today I got cleared to start answering real questions. It should be interesting to see what kind of questions get asked.

PS. There's also a section specifically for kids to send questions in to Ask an IPL Librarian.