Meeting with the Subject Librarian

In all honesty, my meeting with the subject librarian was useless. Not to say that it's a bad thing to do it---The librarian came up to me and asked me what I needed help with, so I proceeded to show her my EndNote materials and what I'm doing my project on. She said, "You know what you're doing, I have nothing to teach you." Which is fine, lots of people don't know what they're doing and need the help. I've had several years now of reading and doing scientific research, so I'm getting pretty good at it.

I have a lot of work left to do on my review. The material is very dense, which I'm accustomed to. But I admit that I haven't had to read literature in this kind of volume before, so my brain is getting stretched a little. Since each of the articles are very dense, I'm getting quite good at skimming the article for the information that is worthy of spending more time on.

My topic involves the roles and interactions of what are known as the shelterin proteins that protect and regulate telomeres in chromosomal DNA. I originally had an idea for how to organize my review, but I came across a review of a similar subject that had an organization that I like even better. Since there's so many connections between each of the parts, I've decided I can group ideas or relationships of the different proteins into categories of similarity.