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Harrisonburg Children's Museum
I didn’t get a post written last night because I was working on research for my Senior Thesis Literature Review. The CISAT library has subscriptions to research databases that allow searching of scholarly (works that have been reviewed and published) abstracts (brief synopsis of a paper’s contents) to find papers quickly that apply to your research area. Unfortunately, the papers I am looking for are not accessible from the university in digital or paper formats. For this JMU has a service that is free, called the Interlibrary Loan. I enter the information about the article or paper I need and JMU searches other libraries and tries to get the book or a digital copy for my research. I can also have the library deliver my books from Carrier (on the quad) to the CISAT Library so I can pick them up when I’m going to class!
Yesterday afternoon, I spent time at the Harrisonburg Children’s Museum, in downtown Harrisonburg working on a Community Service Learning Project for CIS 320 (Telecom). I am updating their reception computer, and ensuring security on their network. I installed some software for them, and tested their connectivity throughout the museum.
This afternoon, I am going to meet with the Director of Operations of the museum to donate several iMac computers from Fairfield Language Technologies. It’s a great opportunity for the two entities to connect and share resources.
Right now I’m ready for CIS 320 Exam review, I’ll post more later.
Posted by Matt on March 29, 2006 11:00 AM | Link | Email Matt
