June 24

Today wrapped up my third full week at the Library and it was same old, same old. Processing of new CDs continued this morning, but we still have not learned how to make "brief records" so that is one highly important element of the processing that we cannot do. Basically, from my understanding, we have to make the "brief records" when the CDs are found neither in the Library's Voyager database or the OCLC database. However, my co-worker/fellow intern Ali told me this is not the case, that we have to make the "brief records" when the CDs are not in Voyager but ARE in OCLC. We'll see. My way makes more sense to my library mind, but let's not forget that my trainer doesn't speak English very well so it wouldn't be out of the question for me to have misunderstood - or for her to be wrong. After all, she insisted that it was not "OCLC" but rather "LCOC" when I was labeling my box. Uh huh, sure it is.

Anyway, the new CDs are a mixed bag of all types of music (a lot of contemporary Christian and Latin instrumental, though) and I've been spending more time listening to ones that look interesting. For instance, I came across sort of a "greatest hits" CD by Roscoe Holcomb, who was the original singer of "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow." Most people (including me) know that song from the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack. I also listened to the Ryan Cabrera CD (I will admit that I love that song "True" by him) and the official Athens 2004 Olympic album, where Avril Lavigne does a horrible cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." However, I was most excited to come across a CD by Anne E. DeChant, who is a local singer from Cleveland who I have heard in person a few times. It's cool to add someone like that to the Library's collection!

The Junior Fellows Intern Web page was unveiled finally - only to Library staff members, though, so I'm sorry I can't show you guys. Each of us interns (except my co-worker Thom, for some reason) gets our own page, complete with picture and information about us. I'm just happy that my picture is not that horrible. I'm not smiling, but it's not that bad either. I was one of the bad interns who didn't submit any information about myself, too. So there's just my picture, my name and a lot of "information not submitted..."

We also had an Intern-only bagged lunch get-together, which was a little weird. Only about 8 of us showed up, which I guess is nearly half, but the tables in the dining room were set up in a U-shape so it wasn't particularly conducive to conversation - except with the people right next to you. Our main conduit to the administration, Raymond, set that up and from what I could tell (I got there late), didn't even eat with us but instead stood over all of us and asked us if we were bored at our jobs yet. Very, very interesting, to say the least.