Were six weeks into ETL505, and I think I'm surprised with how I have progressed over the past week.
I worked on it for three weeks at least and two weeks of it involved careful reading of texts and readings to get any gist. At least as the paper came together, the ideas made sense, and walla an essay.
As for the first assignment, I don't have the confidence that I will pass even though I have put in a fair good shot with it. Usually first assignments during semester two have tended to be poor, and much worse than semester one. I've tried to avoid "excluding" information and "staccato" like writing. I also think the HAL Text reader is a useful tool in proofreading my assignments because someone reads it aloud and i can look at it as if I am the marker.
But assignment one was quite interesting nonetheless looking at Resource Access Description. As a librarian and as a person I love writing detailed descriptions because I know people like to have information at their finger tips, especially in a connected world. I was shocked at the rigourous standards of AACR2. It turned out to me to be more outdated than I thought. In my view it ignores some of the fundamentals in reading and viewing information.
I'm glad that they are bringing it in. Even if I don't understand it yet, I can see the advantages of it without having to do too much
