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A short (fewer than 500 words) personal statement about how your current and/or past academic and work experiences, including volunteer work, have influenced your ability to become a leader in the information professions.
Recent experiences have fostered my life-long passion for books and enabled me to work with diverse populations. They have also illuminated structures underlying information use, including language and literacy development and systems, methods, and requirements of education across the lifespan. They have challenged me to address the problems of orienting the next generations to our burgeoning information stores and fostering in them a passion for literature.Throughout my undergraduate studies, for my senior thesis, I worked on a children’s novel, researched topics related to my plot, and reviewed children’s books that inspired my work. I also helped organize a reader’s response session in which local elementary students critiqued my work. I was thus able to reflect on a population’s literary requirement, to work with others to organize literary discussions, and to collect and implement feedback from readers.
However, it was during my speech language pathology graduate studies that I first considered a library career. My fellow students’ limiting preference for online texts over specialized databases referencing journals available in the library amazed me and alerted me to the potential mismanagement and misuse of information that accompanies its immediate availability. I was often more concerned about the correct handling of information for projects than about the information itself, conscious of how vital that handling is when information availability is exploding at its present rate.
As a student clinician in this program, I also worked with children of various ages and abilities in various educational settings and counseled parents about their children’s speech and language development. In addition to insight on developing readers’ information needs, clinical practicum gave me the opportunity to comb public libraries for books to use in therapy. Reading and re-reading children’s literature, I became versed both in new titles and books I missed as a child.
Further inspired by my reading and language development coursework, I expanded the reading program at my summer daycare job, encouraging children to chart their own reading progress, selecting books to read aloud, and experimenting with storytelling techniques. By the end of the summer, children who had shown no independent interest in books were requesting favorites from the library. I was encouraged by my successful identification of a need and development of a program to help meet it.
Seeking to confirm my interest in libraries, I volunteered in a media center in a school for children with disabilities. There I explored collections management software and databases, as well as various classification systems. Drawing on this experience, I am currently developing a cataloguing system for a library belonging to a small student organization in Rouen, France.
I am confident the unparalleled learning environment offered by the Catholic University of America would develop the insight, inspirations, confidence, and experiences I have had until now. I look forward to beginning there a lifelong struggle against obstacles to future information consumers’ effective pursuit of life’s facts and fiction’s truths.
anyone want to look at another essay? you know you want to...
A short (fewer than 500 words) personal statement about how your current and/or past academic and work experiences, including volunteer work, have influenced your ability to become a leader in the information professions.
Recent experiences have fostered my life-long passion for books and enabled me to work with diverse populations. They have also illuminated structures underlying information use, including language and literacy development and systems, methods, and requirements of education across the lifespan. They have challenged me to address the problems of orienting the next generations to our burgeoning information stores and fostering in them a passion for literature.Throughout my undergraduate studies, for my senior thesis, I worked on a children’s novel, researched topics related to my plot, and reviewed children’s books that inspired my work. I also helped organize a reader’s response session in which local elementary students critiqued my work. I was thus able to reflect on a population’s literary requirement, to work with others to organize literary discussions, and to collect and implement feedback from readers.
However, it was during my speech language pathology graduate studies that I first considered a library career. My fellow students’ limiting preference for online texts over specialized databases referencing journals available in the library amazed me and alerted me to the potential mismanagement and misuse of information that accompanies its immediate availability. I was often more concerned about the correct handling of information for projects than about the information itself, conscious of how vital that handling is when information availability is exploding at its present rate.
As a student clinician in this program, I also worked with children of various ages and abilities in various educational settings and counseled parents about their children’s speech and language development. In addition to insight on developing readers’ information needs, clinical practicum gave me the opportunity to comb public libraries for books to use in therapy. Reading and re-reading children’s literature, I became versed both in new titles and books I missed as a child.
Further inspired by my reading and language development coursework, I expanded the reading program at my summer daycare job, encouraging children to chart their own reading progress, selecting books to read aloud, and experimenting with storytelling techniques. By the end of the summer, children who had shown no independent interest in books were requesting favorites from the library. I was encouraged by my successful identification of a need and development of a program to help meet it.
Seeking to confirm my interest in libraries, I volunteered in a media center in a school for children with disabilities. There I explored collections management software and databases, as well as various classification systems. Drawing on this experience, I am currently developing a cataloguing system for a library belonging to a small student organization in Rouen, France.
I am confident the unparalleled learning environment offered by the Catholic University of America would develop the insight, inspirations, confidence, and experiences I have had until now. I look forward to beginning there a lifelong struggle against obstacles to future information consumers’ effective pursuit of life’s facts and fiction’s truths.
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