I’m Nicole Davis and this is my final semester in the MSI program at FSU (and hopefully my last semester of school). Before this I was an English major, and you can likely already tell I have an over-fondness for parentheses. For some it’s the oxford comma, others the em dash, but you can pry parenthetical statements from my cold dead hands.
I am looking forward to this class (which I have already started affectionately calling “digital arts & crafts”) as a creative outlet for my last semester, at the very least compared to my other courses. I have some minor (mostly self-taught) experience with digital creative tools (for example, I had a media productions class in high school where we experimented with Premiere Pro video editing) but I am excited to refine and improve these skills (and new ones) over the course of the semester and looking for potential ways to apply these skills at work. Speaking of work…
Starting in December of last year (so very recently) I finally got a part-time job in a library. I work the reference desk at Tallahassee State College. That link should take you to the staff page for the library, where you can see a picture of me because I will not be including one of myself here (I prefer to keep as few pictures of myself on the internet as possible). I currently live in Perry, Florida (which if you’ve heard of it’s likely only because you’ve driven through it) but because of the new job I am actively looking to relocate to the Tallahassee area.
Now for the fun stuff, I love to collect hobbies, especially creative ones, such as painting, writing, photography, music and so on. For seven years in school I played clarinet, hence why I decided to allude to music in the title (honestly I just couldn’t think of anything better and “all that jazz” has been my recent default filler phrase). Technically speaking reading is my biggest hobby because I read almost everyday (but that is such a cliche hobby to talk about as an English major turned future librarian). So instead, none of that is what I am going to focus on here, rather I will mention my growing love and fascination with lost media. I’ve linked to the wiki “about us” page for lost media in case anyone is interested. As a busy college student I do not have much time to participate in searches for lost media myself, but I am always interested in learning more about how media goes missing, why, and most of all the often odd ways this media is found again. I think lost media searches are also fascinating because they encourage people to participate in archiving practices, and the growing popularity helps bring more attention to archival institutions like the Internet Archive and it’s Wayback Machine.
