A Book Lover and Information Seeker, Living the Social Experience as a MLIS Candidate @UCLA and always a Spartan For Life. Thoughts on Information Science, Archives, Libraries and Technology.Tumblr (3.0; @theinformationexperience)http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/<blockquote><p>Sometimes I feel like I live a double life.  Since July, I’ve been interning aka full time working at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online in User Experience and Information Architecture.  I work there three days a week and while i’m there, even when I’m…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/work-days-or-what-i-do-on-the-days-im-not-at-school/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/44846717389http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/44846717389Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:57:36 -0800<blockquote> <p>Today’s post serves two purposes. One: for my fieldwork.  Two: to chronicle the first day of Day in the Life of a Library Student for the Hack Library School.  I’m currently in my second year of my MLIS at UCLA.  I currently intern at Disney as an…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/figuring-out-the-right-content/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/44608690899http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/44608690899Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:13:32 -0800<blockquote><p>Today I submitted a document from my second project at Small Demons.  I spent over a month closely reading one book and not for many ways we typically read, but for a close reading to determine specific content and data that would be necessary to produce…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/finishing-up/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/44043579652http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/44043579652Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:02:29 -0800<blockquote><p>I spent some time this past week researching social media for librarians…Good Reads, Shelfari, Library Thing and now Small Demons has been added to the list.  The goal was to discover why librarians use these social sites, and was there a different use…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/researching/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/42417674575http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/42417674575Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:39:07 -0800<blockquote><p>I’ve been doing research for my issue and one of the things I’ve noticed is the extreme lack of consistency between degree titles in the industry.  It used to be that everyone just got a Masters in Library Science and that was it.  Now its Masters of…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/mlis-mls-msis-msi-which-one-do-you-have/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/41771798055http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/41771798055Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:16:19 -0800<blockquote><p>As part of my fieldwork, I’ve been asked to develop a survey tailored to librarians and educators regarding <a href="https://www.smalldemons.com/" target="_blank">Small Demon’s Storyverse</a>and its Collections.  While Small Demons is a relatively new site, it has a lot to offer the Librarians.  But after…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/the-social-media-of-choice-for-the-librarian/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/41261008657http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/41261008657Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:50:09 -0800<blockquote><p>I’ve started on a new task this quarter.  Well, several new tasks.  I’ve begun a fieldwork assignment at Small Demons, a wikipedia-type site that is devoted to the literary world…and all its many connections, twists, and turns.  I’m also knees-deep in…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/facets-tags-and-labels-oh-my/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/40586954251http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/40586954251Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:38:27 -0800<blockquote><p>I had a lot of preconceived notions of the population of YRL (Charles E. Young Research Library) on the UCLA campus. Like many graduate students after the remodel, I felt that the library had been taken over by undergraduates.  The new spaces at YRL have…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/who-studies-here-a-look-at-the-user-population-of-the-charles-e-young-research-library-at-ucla/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/36798317197http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/36798317197Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:19:26 -0800<blockquote><p>I probably should have been blogging about my research assistant work as UCLA YRL’s user research intern throughout the quarter and my time on this study.  But why not start now.  So, a major part of my time on this study is trying to find some way to…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/creating-the-perfect-data-visualization/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/36792137588http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/36792137588Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:58:12 -0800<blockquote><p>Our DH201 project has brought a lot into focus for me.   While I’m used to working on collaborative projects and working with people who have many different views, I never experienced so many conflicting ideas…that in many scenarios would be non-starters…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/designing-the-digital-humanities-project/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/36719133949http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/36719133949Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:36:14 -0800<blockquote><p>I found it interesting this week that our focus this week in class was peer review, open source history and most importantly Wikipedia.  When Wikipedia first came on the scene, I was in the process of finishing up my undergrad and as students we were…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/wikipedia-to-use-or-not-to-use/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/36227517617http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/36227517617Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:02:12 -0800<blockquote><p>With the election this week, I was interested in the discussion of historical text…or narrative depending on who you ask.  I can see why deconstructing history in the digital age can be an interesting problem for historians.  On one hand, the historian…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/digitizing-history/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/35118485899http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/35118485899Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:55:48 -0800<blockquote><p>Hi Everyone,  I’m Megan and I’m Hyperattentive.  I have a problem…I’m very attention deficit…my kryptonite is hypertext.  I don’t disagree with N. Katherine Hayles lecture <a href="http://vimeo.com/17005301" target="_blank">How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine</a>.  In fact, I agree with a lot of what she has to…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/hi-im-megan-and-im-hyperattentive/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/34691419549http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/34691419549Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:36:29 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcp0j4HQop1rqx7sso1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>The Art of Topic Modeling</big></p><blockquote><p>Clustering Chapter Topics</p> <p>Math has never been my strong suit, but for some reason I seem to semi…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/the-art-of-topic-modeling/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/34624748854http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/34624748854Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:25:52 -0700<blockquote><p>When I saw the readings I had for this week’s DH reading round-up, I was annoyed because it was an endless list of what I expected to be theory about theory.  I received my BA in Film and English and spent not only my undergrad years immersed in my share…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/existing-in-the-realm-of-disciplinary-convergence/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/34153942068http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/34153942068Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:47:11 -0700<blockquote><p>In reading for this weeks DH class, I was struck by the irony of Jerome McGann’s Radiant Textuality.  The book is only available in paper.  If you’ve never read the book, you might miss the point of this.  But the purpose of McGann’s book is to expose the…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/nonradiant-textuality/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/33699365882http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/33699365882Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:08:21 -0700<blockquote><p>As We May Think, the quintessential essay for every bibliophile turned librarian/archivist/information scientist, by Vannevar Bush was required reading again this week.  And while there is only so many new concepts or ideas to glean from this piece,…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://meglit.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/as-we-may-think-and-think-and-think/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p><p><small>shared via <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a></small></p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/33146798843http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/33146798843Sun, 07 Oct 2012 23:19:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9jqv6yYbc1rqx7sso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My parting gift from my bosses at The Jim Henson Company! Great surprise and Great Place to work! (Taken with <a href="http://instagram.com" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)</p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/30495805611http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/30495805611Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:28:17 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m66mnv59IY1rqx7sso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>2012 Newberry Medal Winner Jack Gantos being awesome and signing a lot of books for me! (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)</p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/25859757697http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/25859757697Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:47:55 -0700<p>Learning all about bookmobiles at ala2012. Who knew all of the crazy things they do for outreach?</p>http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/25721220888http://theinformationexperience.tumblr.com/post/25721220888Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:21:57 -0700