Year 2: Semester 1

For my 1ST semester 2ND year I completed the following courses:

• The Intelligent Organisation
• Business Statistics
• Content Management
• Information Organisation in Libraries

I enjoyed all of these classes aside for one; business statistics. It was another maths subject that had lecturers that could not speak English and seemed to have no idea what they were teaching half of the time. I passed by studying in the last week before the exam, it was bad, but it worked. The classes were useless and I don't know why I kept going to them, I was not learning anything. There was no assignments for this class, only tests and an exam.I received a PASS for this course, I was very happy with it as I was worried that I would fail.

For content management I found it to be a lot like some of the other classes I had done in the previous year. The content of the subject reminded me of Relational Database design and development as we had to create a database, but this time it was a text based database created in DB Textworks, not a relational database. It was a well presented class and the handouts were very helpful in learning how to create the database for the assignment.

For the Intelligent Organisation, I found the class to be very interesting and relevant to my degree. It covered a range of different ways to work with information in companies and how different companies deal with their information. I preformed well in that class and it was easy to understand the content.

Information Organisation in Libraries was my professional elective and it involved the cataloguing of items. I found that it was hard to keep to the rules of cataloguing, but once you had the basic knowledge it was easy to build on. It is also helpful to get a basic idea of Dewey, especially when planning to work in a public library, it makes it much easier to find the correct reference books for patrons without having to look on the computer system.

I passed all of my courses for this semester and did very well in 2 of them. I got the marks I was expecting and I feel that I could only have done better with a little more study, but my work timetable did not really allow for it.