Day 3 - Digitization of Analogue and Physical Materials. Today we were taught about digitisation of analogue and physical materials and the importance there of. We were also taught how to do the digitisation and cleaning of the digitised images or documents ourselves. The day started out with a short lecture on what digitisation entails, why it is needed and used, and the whole process of digitisation from start to the finished product. After that we went down to the digitization centre of the library and shown how the different machines are used to scan in the different books, maps, paintings, etc. into a digital format that will be cleaned up at a later state. The clean-up process is very important as the scanned files can be discoloured or damaged due to old age and thus they have to be cleaned to make them reusable and legible. We were then taught how to do the clean-up process ourselves and tasked with cleaning up a bunch of files, one of those can be see...
Day 1 - General Introduction and Meetings. T oday was the first day of the INL 370 Work Experience and Learning Program. It was mainly used for introductory purposes and explaining what the University's library actually does and some of the projects that they are currently working on. T he day started off with the director of the Library, Mr Robert Maropa, explaining to us what the library is working towards and that their mission is to become a lean and agile, 21st century library. After his presentation we sat through a number of other presentations given by different team leaders and drivers from different departments of the library. They explained what they were currently working on and why their department was important to the main goal of the Library. We also sat through a presentation given by one of the members of the library's marketing team. She explained to us the importance of marketing for a library. The library requires ...
Day 7 - Information Science and Presentations. Today we learned more about what a information scientist is and what they have to do, we also learned about presentations and how to do research on a presentation topic. The day started out with us having a information session on what an information scientist is and what they do exactly. We where taught about the different roles an information scientist can have and the importance of joining a union, as it presents you with opportunities to network with other information scientist. The morning session was pretty short, but the afternoon session would be a longer session and require more hands on work from our part. The afternoon session started out with us receiving a lecture on how to do presentations and how to gather information for those presentations. We where then divided into groups and each group was tasked with gathering information on a specific topic. We then had to compile the gathered information into a Pow...
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