If it says it's private, is it really?

I just saw on someone else's blog about using refworks for an assignment in another class, and I thought it was funny because I had done the same thing earlier this morning. I have been trying to find resources for a literature review I have to do in an archives class. I started to write down the citations by hand, but then thought to myself how stupid and painful that would be, so I signed in to refworks and imported away. It's nice not only being introduced to these technologies but then also being able to make use of them later on in different scenarios.

Although I have yet to delve into chapter 10 of the textbook or the other two things to check out for this week, I do feel that database management is going to be the role of the librarian inthe future. I know a couple of months ago, Westinghouse (yes, the major multibillion dollar corporation) had a job opening for a position that was akin to database management in terms of job responsbilities and the kind of background they wanted you have-all things pertainable to what a library and information science degree provides. It somewhat depresses/discourages me because it always seems that the most interesting and prospect worthy job openings are always opening up when I am not yet credentialed yet. I am set to graduate in December but hope I won't have a bleak job outlook. I also think the job market for librarians in the Pittsburgh area totally sucks.

On a privacy, who's watching you now kind of a note, I did find the little news tidbit provided in I think either chapter 7 or 9 of the textbook to be majorly disturbing. It was about a medical transcriptionist who was threatening to I think make public certain people's medical records unless she was paid more. It makes one wonder about the state of all of our private records and the people whose job it is to handle them. I also get oddly worried out when writing in this blog. I mean it is for better or worse, a permanent record in cyberspace. In olden times, when people died, that was it, save for family records which had no guarantee that they would be indefinitely preserved. Today, all gloves are off. This is obviously a topic that is worthy of having an entire blog devoted to. Plan to check out the SQL? nerd later this week. Stay tuned, it will no doubt be the focus of blog #3 for this week.

Madre de dios-it's Wednesday.