Welcome to my e-Portfolio

Introduction

 

Within these pages, I have presented a collection of my work as a graduate student in the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. A culmination of 15 competencies are represented here, which I have developed in the pursuit of my Master’s of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree. You will find supporting evidence that serves to exemplify my knowledge, skills, abilities, and achievements that have prepared me for my fulfilling career in the world of information.

 

To construct this e-Portfolio, I kept a spreadsheet of the projects and assignments I completed during each course I took towards my MLIS degree. Next to the artifact name, I included the competencies the item provided evidence for. I also rated each artifact on a scale of 1-5: a score of 1 would be allocated to items that met minimal levels of applicability to the competency, while an allocated score of 5 signified an item that showed the strongest evidence for my aptitude in the competency at hand.

 

The professional experience I developed during the program was recorded in the same fashion as my course assignments. Before I began working on my e-Portfolio, I added professional experience that I had done before the program to the spreadsheet and assigned the same rating criteria in regards to the strength of evidence and relevance to the competency it supported.

 

The construction of my e-Portfolio has been a great experience overall. It serves to provide others with a good sense of my skills and aptitudes and, unexpectedly, it has also served to remind me of my own accomplishments. I’m grateful for this project as it has offered me a clear perspective of how valuable the MLIS program was by demonstrating the large extent as to how much I have truly developed and improved throughout the past two and a half years of my enrollment.