Tag: Yonsei University

Hello from Seoul! It’s currently 6:15 am on Tuesday. And it’s August! Oh, man! We first arrived after a 14 hour + flight from JFK International airport to Incheon. We were exhausted and it took us two hours to get out of the airport alone.… Read the rest

Right now it’s 10 to 8 on Monday, August 1st and the students start class in an hour. How did we get here? Let me catch you up.? Saturday afternoon, when I last left you, I went out and wandered the main streets right outside the main gate of Yonsei.?… Read the rest

South Korea

Hello all, my name is Andrea Cronin.? Along with four other GSLIS students, Dean Cloonan, Professor Kevin Glick, and Dean’s fellow Clare Davitt, we are about to embark on a journey to South Korea! As GSLIS ambassadors to Yonsei University, my fellow classmates and I have the wonderful opportunity to learn about library and archive systems in South Korea as well as take two courses: LIS 439 Preservation Management with Dean Cloonan, and LIS 456 Records in Electronic Environments with Professor Glick.… Read the rest

We’re here!?We arrived Friday evening after a slight delay leaving JFK. The fourteen hour flight on Korean Air was actually pretty great if you leave out the having to sit for so long. The service was wonderful and we had our first introduction to Bibimap which is rice with all sorts of other fun things http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibimbap… Read the rest

I’m Clare Davitt, the Fellow for Dean’s Initiatives at Simmons College in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. ?On Thursday, July 28th I’ll be traveling to Seoul, South Korea with five other graduate students and two of our faculty.… Read the rest