Journal Week 3

Well, week 3 is here and gone. I have had an eventful one too. My fifth baby boy was born this last Thursday at 5:03 in the morning. We named him Gabriel Guy Byington. He is so perfect. We have been truly blessed. Because of this unexpected arrival as he wasn't due for another two weeks, I have not been able to visit an academic library yet. I plan on doing that this next Thursday , but I won't be posting about it this week.
As for the rest of the assignments, I have found them interesting and straight forward. I have to say not to sound like a brown nose or anything, but the assignments in this online class are by far the easiest to follow. Professor Walls does an excellent job lining them out for us.
The first assignment this week was on Organizing information. It wanted us to understand and think about different ways to organize collections of data or any other collections we could think of. This assignment for me was fun as I have collected Basketball cards since 1991. I was able to share some of the ways I have collated my collection over the years and through this process I was able to think of a few new ways.
The second assignment was concerning the world of the database. We were required to like at our academic libraries periodical database as well as Proquest which is a database of articles from magazines and different sources of that nature. I found this assignment a little difficult at first until I became familiar with surfing the different databases. I also learned the value of keywords and which fields to use to narrow your results for researech. These lessons are going to come in handy for our pathfinder.
The third and las one that I can write about this week is the Library catalog assignment, which I found to be pretty easy. It was a great way to see what was out there on my pathfinder topic so that I could see if I needed to revise my topic or not. Guess what I do.
I enjoyed this week and hope as things calm down at home and become more routine that I will be able to concentrate on my studies the way that I like to. Thanks for reading everyone.

A Happy Father,
Billy Byington