Day in review June 9, 2015

The beginning of the day went well. Research was tedious because it was data gathering. I had a hard time paying attention and will have to do some coding and cleaning of the data before I can use it. I truly had no idea how many different types of degrees and certificates can be offered. Evaluating each of these programs takes a certain amount of discernment that I hadn’t anticipated, but it is slowing me down. There will be a lot of data to play with when I’m done. I hope that it will yield some meaningful connections to the library. I fear I may need to learn some scripting/coding before it is over. There has to be a way to pull parts of this that are not by hand.

I also  spend some time on the meta-analysis. Today’s project was deduplicating the citation lists once I combined results. I had hoped to weed out more, but that didn’t happen. I expect that a number of these articles can be excluded based on relevance. But we’ll have to see.

The last major portion of my day was getting ready for instruction on Thursday. It’s a easy lecture, giving an overview of data management and strategies. At this point, I have slides, an eval, handouts, and a worksheet. It seems like a lot of paperwork, but only some of it will get used. The rest is for future reference. I’m looking forward to it because its a topic that I enjoy. We’ll see how it goes.

I need to decide what to do with the rest of my day. I will probably read some more. I’m hungry every day coming home. I hope dinner is ready today. Justin will want to finish the movie we started yesterday. That will probably round it out.