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Personal Narrative: My Difficulty April Schedule

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In session one I discussed that my busy April schedule would be my greatest challenge and that if I were able to stay on schedule that maybe that challenge would not be so difficult. As it turns out, my schedule proved to be quite a bit more difficult than I had originally foreseen when planning my calendar for this session. I did not consider my sons health appointments because they used to be 12 weeks apart and now they are 6-8 weeks apart because of some new complications that arose with his radiation retinopathy. Along with that appointment an oncology follow-up and MRI jumped on the calendar as well. This was all in 1 week and thankfully God showed me some grace that week and sent some weather our way that cancelled my husband’s race Saturday, which allowed me to get caught up. …show more content…

The scatterplot is another useful tool when I need to present visual data. I believe that this would be helpful in presenting the age of materials that a school or department has in their inventory. With the scatterplot tool we could have the number of copies on one axis and the copyright year on the other axis in order to not only show the age of their inventory, but also how many copies you have available for each copyright. This information is helpful when departments or schools are looking to weed materials, but may not know where to start. Presenting such data would be the first step and the second would be then to determine circulation of the older copyrighted materials and use the two reports to determine whether to keep or get rid of the title. Sometimes not looking at the title of a book, which may be one of your favorites or one you are not fond of, can be helpful because you are reducing your biased opinion of the materials that may not be circulating. Of course there is more to it than this, but this would give them a good starting

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