June 14
Yes, today is Flag Day and was therefore the day of the big party. Hoo-rah!! Actually, as much as I mocked it, any time you can get free food at work - not to mention about 90 minutes of lunchtime - I really shouldn't complain. There was a pretty complete menu with like fried chicken, deli meats, potato salad, regular salad, lentil soup, potato chips, tortilla chips, veggies, brownies, cookies and an awesomely rich chocolate cake. Oh yeah, and ice cream. Yum. The food was pretty good, but the best part was that it was free! I've been spending money like I am the government, not just a government employee so to have a free lunch kicks butt. Someone mentioned that typically they have parties like this a couple times a year and the employees have to pay a small amount but this time there was no charge; the managers (team leaders? I’m not sure of the proper vernacular) apparently paid for it or something. I'm thinking petty cash or something like that. I met some of the other staff members of "Special Materials" (oh yeah, this was a SpecMat party, not a MBRS party and certainly not a LOC party) who seem to not be so much on the odd side as some of the other catalogers I've met. Or maybe my stuffed belly altered my perceptions.
Workwise, we spent more time in the morning doing the CD cataloging and then, after the party, got our first chance to head down to the MBRS reference room and get started on our second project. For that project, we are supposed to find record labels that are not complying with the copyright depositing. So, basically, that requires a lot of Internet searching. First, we try to find labels - the preference is small labels, only because most of the larger labels seem to be aware of copyright registering and depositing. After we find some viable candidates, we simply try to find their catalog of titles and compare that with our library catalog to see if the items are in the Library or not. There is also an 'in-processing' database to consult to see if the items have been sent in recently and are just not processed. It can be interesting work, I suppose. I already found one label that doesn't seem to be complying - Estrus Records. Not that I know of them or really any of the bands on the label, but nonetheless, they aren’t complying… Sucks for them.
That was pretty much my Tuesday in a nutshell. I'm also trying to figure out how to check-out books AND I'm trying to get an answer regarding "credit" hours, which basically means working late one day and leaving early another day, not to be confused with "credit" hours earned towards a degree, of course.
Workwise, we spent more time in the morning doing the CD cataloging and then, after the party, got our first chance to head down to the MBRS reference room and get started on our second project. For that project, we are supposed to find record labels that are not complying with the copyright depositing. So, basically, that requires a lot of Internet searching. First, we try to find labels - the preference is small labels, only because most of the larger labels seem to be aware of copyright registering and depositing. After we find some viable candidates, we simply try to find their catalog of titles and compare that with our library catalog to see if the items are in the Library or not. There is also an 'in-processing' database to consult to see if the items have been sent in recently and are just not processed. It can be interesting work, I suppose. I already found one label that doesn't seem to be complying - Estrus Records. Not that I know of them or really any of the bands on the label, but nonetheless, they aren’t complying… Sucks for them.
That was pretty much my Tuesday in a nutshell. I'm also trying to figure out how to check-out books AND I'm trying to get an answer regarding "credit" hours, which basically means working late one day and leaving early another day, not to be confused with "credit" hours earned towards a degree, of course.
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