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Spring 2013 Comps
Hi all! I am updating the past question list to include all of the exam questions from 2012. Thanks, my predecessors, for such a great resource! - Travis Tidwell, wtidwel2@utk.edu

Spring 2012 Comps
Hi! I am not taking comps until Summer 2012, but I went ahead and added the questions from Spring 2011 and Summer 2011. Becky rgrinds1ATutkDOTedu

Spring 2011 Comps
Hello everyone! Let's make sure we keep in touch and update as we go! Good luck! ~Rebekah Ellis, rellis17@utk.edu I agree. Let's start studying!! -Emily Tragle etragle@utk.edu I am adding questions from Spring, Summer, and Fall 2010. Please post your ideas/outlines! ~April Knowles, aknowle3@utk.edu I am adding info to answers/responses - check the history pages to see what has been changed. April, you are doing a great job linking known answers to recent questions! ~Dori Duff, dduff2@utk.edu

Fall 2010 Comps
It's that time! Comps for Fall 2010! We can do it! --Liz Parnell (eparnell)

Spring 2010 Comps
Hello all! I'm kind of getting a late start but I plan to go through the past questions from the UTK site with the answers and study guides of this site. Hopefully there's a Nashville group that wants to study together, too! Thanks to everyone's hard work on this; I'll add anything if necessary. ~bryn samuels p.s. I just added Spring, Summer and Fall 2009 questions if anyone wants to provide their responses or notes! :)

Hello everyone - Is anyone else staying at the Holiday Inn Select on Thursday? I'm driving to Knoxville after work and would love to get together to study and get my bearings on campus. And thanks, Bryn, for adding the new questions! -- Jane Ray jray20@utk.edu

Fall 2009 Comps
Greetings to any fellow fall '09 comps takers who took advantage of this helpful wiki. Our big day came and went Friday November 6th. This semester we some similar questions as were on the past exams and this wiki was a great resource to prepare from. I will update our questions when they become available to continue this great site and now a SIS tradition.

For a project we (students from Fall 2009) have introduced a new level of modularity to this comps guide. Some of the Fall 2009 coms questions dealt more specifically from elective courses, for example collection development and digital libraries. Some of these electives may not have been taken by everyone. Therefore, we have devised and implemented a study guide for an elective and in this case it is Knowledge Management. We have added a link to the study guide wiki at the top of the Navigation pane to the left. It is our hope that people continue to do this for elective projects in the future.

Thanks all and enjoy, Tom D. tdreis at utk dot edu

Summer 2009 Comps
Greetings to any fellow summer '09 comps takers who are taking advantage of this helpful wiki. I've been reading through my 510, 520, and 530 notes (from four years ago!) and outlining answers to past questions. I'll try to take time to share some of my answers before the big day--JULY 10! See you then! Sarah S. ssenter@utk.edu

Spring 2009 Comps takers ROCK!
Or at least, everyone I've ever encountered through the course of this degree rocks... so I'm extrapolating out. The questions from the Fall 2008 Comps are (or should soon be) posted in the "Past Questions" page. This is a great study resource, and I hope everyone takes full advantage of it. See you all soon.

Matt L. mlightha@utk.edu

Greetings, Comps Takers Fall 2008
08/24/08 - I'm adding the Spring 2008 questions to the structure, and hope to add notes to the various answers as I study over the next two months. Please do the same - this site is a wonderful information free-for-all set up by the fabulous ones who have come before us. On a practical note, if anyone (female) wants to be roommates in Knoxville the night before comps, let me know; I'll be driving in from Virginia on Thursday. Best wishes to all, Maryke B., mbarber5 at utk dot edu

Hello to Summer 2008 Comps takers!
This is such a great resource, and let's also remember to communicate among ourselves. Do we want to stay in the same hotel in order to study some before the tests? Exchange cell phone numbers? Get together for dinner the night before? I'm a very collaborative learner, so I'm game for as much as we can do.

Lisa, May 15 2008 lburley at tennessee dot edu

Welcome to the Comps Wiki for Spring 2008!!
Hi all -- I have the online "lessons" from Dr. Whitney's 490 class as a word doc (all 113 pages). Email me if you're interested in getting a copy -- I don't want her freaking, so I'm not posting it here. Not sure how useful it'll be, but just wanted to let y'all know. -Meghan mmille46 at utk dot edu

Hi Jody & Meghan & fellow Spring Compers--this is Robbi. Deepest thanks to Susan, goddess of all wikis, along with all the other Spring 2007 alumni who graciously started this site. I have managed to procrastinate until now knowing that you've already done a lot of my prep work :) Here's looking to March 29th! -Robbi, January 16, 2008

Hi Jody and everyone else -- this is Meghan. I second the thanks to Susan, and to Jodie, Wendy, Courtney and everyone else who got this started. I'm going through and trying to answer as many questions as I can, and I really like seeing the old discussions on the questions y'all worked on last year. Let's keep it up, and good luck! -Meghan, Jan. 14, 2008

Hi! This is Jody. MUCHO thanks to Susan for making this wiki available to us long after she has evolved into a butterfly. Please add your email address to the Member Emails on the lower left, and help me build on this wonderful resource. Good luck to all of us!!

--jody, January 12, 2008

Some of us old timers will stick around so if you have any problems or questions feel free to let me know!

Susan

Sept. 13, 2007 The Spring and Summer 2007 questions have been added to the site. If they're similar to past questions, links are already there to those past questions. New questions have pages now, but need responses in the form of outlines or actual answers.

Penney Letbetter

As you prepare for comps, take time out for laughter. This link will take you to a comic strip based on librarians and libraries. [|Unshelved, the library comic strip]