Countdown to London, June 3, 2007

In 13 days I will be flying to London with my friend D. We are going to take part in a Master's class for Library Science students. The class will be taught at University College London, UCL, by professors of that illustrious institution. It will last two weeks, at the end of which there will be an international two-day conference on e-publishing, the first to be held in London.

I have started this blog as part of my assignment for the course. I will be expected to complete several assignments, one of which is a journal of my experience. What better way to keep a journal of a class on e-publishing than with a blog, I ask?

This is my first ever blog, and my first ever posting.

For those of you who would like to know what e-publishing is, it means "electronic publishing". The reason I am taking this class is that electronic publishing is an important subject to learn about if one is interested in becoming a librarian in an academic library, which is to say the library of a university or college. Since that is what I would like to do, I thought it would be a good idea to take this class.

Also, any opportunity to travel to London must be seized at all costs. I am going to take advantage of this class to get together with some old friends, some long lost, others simply far away. Last summer I took a class in Florence (my home town) and I got to see many of my old friends, but in particular, my friend I. who lives in Berlin, came to Florence to visit me, for a long weekend. This summer, she will be coming to London, also for a long weekend. Am I the luckiest person in the world? I think so.

That's it for one night. More tomorrow. Good night to all, and sweet dreams.