hello my name is:

If you've stumbled across this blog this early on in its existence, chances are you already know me. But if somehow through the magic that is the Internet you've discovered Objectifying Objects by chance, let me take a moment to introduce myself.

My name is Alexis and I'm a Graduate Student at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information, commonly referred to as the iSchool. I'm working towards my Master of Science in Information Studies with a focus in Academic Librarianship.  I'm a Graduate Research Assistant at the UT Fine Arts Library and have recently started volunteering with the FAL's Visual Resource Collection.  It is this volunteer work that will be the primary focus of Objectifying Objects.  


Volunteering at  the VRC is part of my Capstone Project.  What is a Capstone? The iSchool describes it as a "capping" experience to your academic studies, enabling you to "integrate [your] professional education and the intellectual and institutional vocations toward which [you] are striving." This premise may sound a tad lofty but, in fact, it's a great opportunity for students to work on a "real world" project, gain some valuable experience, and then present on the topic to colleagues.  And I'm lucky enough to have the opportunity to do so with the VRC.


I'll be updating this blog regularly, describing and musing about the project I'll be completing for the VRC. I'll describe that project and what hopes I have for it in the next entry. It's an interested project and I'm very excited about it! If that's not enough to entice you to check back in, I promise to explain the name of the blog then, too!