Time: 35 minutes
Faculty: Doc Martens, Dr. Brown, and Dr. Burke
Basically, I went back through my original essay (on the future of libraries), expanding on some points and making connections more explicit. After that, we ended up talking more about repositories and the changes in journal publishing; the difficulty in separating internal and external factors when talking about libraries; my own metacognitive processing of the situation; whether my model of people/budgets/money was extractable to 5, 10, and 20 years down the line; and what I’m going to get my brother for his birthday.
Most importantly: I passed! Woohoo!
July 15, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Awesome ! Congratulations Kirsten
July 15, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Yay, Kirsten! Congrats! What a great group of professors to present to.
Hurray!!!
July 15, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Congrats, Kirsten! I told you so …
July 15, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Congratulations.
Always fascinating to read about the familiar from such a different viewpoint. And if someone asked me to sum up info/library science, I think I’d point them to your summation of the article on browsing for the gist of it.
Glad it ended well for you.
And do consider posting the returned question and comments. The more info that’s out there, the better for those who have to deal with it in the future.
July 15, 2008 at 4:40 pm
July 15, 2008 at 6:36 pm
I knew you would not have any issue defending your answer. Great Job!
July 15, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Way to go, K! You can exhale now
July 16, 2008 at 9:35 am
Congratulations, Kirsten! I am so proud of you! What a great ride it’s been, huh?
July 16, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Congratulations!
July 17, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Proud of you and happy for you!
Re, “It wasn’t so much like being grilled as it was like an interesting, though slightly one-sided, conversation.”
That describes my history thesis defense to a T. You don’t know that you know more about what you’ve researched and written yourself than *they* do until it’s over!