July 14
In the morning, I processed CDs and listened to some Jesse Malin, The Thrills, Henry Mancini and Gob. Interesting variety. I kind of liked Gob. Right as it was time to leave cataloging and just as I suspected, my temporary trainer, Gina, finished going through my tray of brief records… umm, let’s just say that I am going to be spending all of tomorrow fixing things. Oops. She kept saying that it wasn’t my fault, that Tran (my regular trainer) doesn’t know how to properly do things and that she wasn’t trained well and that it frustrates her. She says she was worried for me when she found out that Tran was going to train me and she says she has checked Tran’s work before and knows she doesn’t do things correctly. Great. It still makes me feel like a loser, having so many things wrong. I haven’t even looked at all the mistakes I have supposedly made (that’s for tomorrow morning) but Gina says that most of them are just repetitive ones of things that I was apparently not told. She also told me that once Tran gets back and has questions about how I’m doing things now, to just send Tran to her. Yeah, that will be fun. Let me get in the middle of office cat-fighting. Fun!
Totally randomly, this supervisor lady Linda, who is not really our direct supervisor but is a supervisor in the cataloging department so I imagine we work for her in some way, brought me these brochures for next week’s Montana week. I mean, it doesn’t officially have that designation but there is someone coming to talk about the “high, wide and handsome” state of Montana (handsome?) on Thursday and there is a concert of Montanan cowboy songs and poetry on Wednesday. So I guess I look like someone who would enjoy this sort of thing since there are all sorts of events on a daily basis at the Library and I’ve never been hand-delivered any of the brochures before. Like I would ever waste my time with anything Montanan!
Later, this same woman cornered us after the MBRS Goals Group meeting, asked how things were going, gave us her history and asked about things we might want to do while we are here. I mentioned I'd like to meet with someone from the Congressional Research Service and she thinks she might be able to pull that off. I would be super psyched to do that!
The MBRS Goals Group meeting was at 3pm and semi-interesting, just like the Music Division one was earlier in the week. We talked about division priorities and the upcoming move to the Culpeper facility and what that means for the catalogers and the workflow, etc… One of the items on the agenda was “Junior Fellows” (us!) but we got skipped over in the interest of time. Bummer. But we were told that a party is planned for us in SpecMat on July 28. Party! I can’t wait! And, we will probably have another party from MBRS! Finally... the benefits of job-sharing. Anyway, there was a lot of discussion of how to catalog and store various formats (like CD-Roms, etc…). I have to say I was kind of amazed that the Library of Congress doesn’t have all the answers.
I'm also having Internet issues at home, which is preventing me from easily posting pictures to this site. The gal I'm living with FINALLY got her DSL working and I bought an adapter to make my desktop wireless and it worked great when I tried it at about midnight on Weds. Tonight, though, it didn't work at all. I couldn't connect. It's really frustrating. I hope I can figure it out before the weekend is over.
Totally randomly, this supervisor lady Linda, who is not really our direct supervisor but is a supervisor in the cataloging department so I imagine we work for her in some way, brought me these brochures for next week’s Montana week. I mean, it doesn’t officially have that designation but there is someone coming to talk about the “high, wide and handsome” state of Montana (handsome?) on Thursday and there is a concert of Montanan cowboy songs and poetry on Wednesday. So I guess I look like someone who would enjoy this sort of thing since there are all sorts of events on a daily basis at the Library and I’ve never been hand-delivered any of the brochures before. Like I would ever waste my time with anything Montanan!
Later, this same woman cornered us after the MBRS Goals Group meeting, asked how things were going, gave us her history and asked about things we might want to do while we are here. I mentioned I'd like to meet with someone from the Congressional Research Service and she thinks she might be able to pull that off. I would be super psyched to do that!
The MBRS Goals Group meeting was at 3pm and semi-interesting, just like the Music Division one was earlier in the week. We talked about division priorities and the upcoming move to the Culpeper facility and what that means for the catalogers and the workflow, etc… One of the items on the agenda was “Junior Fellows” (us!) but we got skipped over in the interest of time. Bummer. But we were told that a party is planned for us in SpecMat on July 28. Party! I can’t wait! And, we will probably have another party from MBRS! Finally... the benefits of job-sharing. Anyway, there was a lot of discussion of how to catalog and store various formats (like CD-Roms, etc…). I have to say I was kind of amazed that the Library of Congress doesn’t have all the answers.
I'm also having Internet issues at home, which is preventing me from easily posting pictures to this site. The gal I'm living with FINALLY got her DSL working and I bought an adapter to make my desktop wireless and it worked great when I tried it at about midnight on Weds. Tonight, though, it didn't work at all. I couldn't connect. It's really frustrating. I hope I can figure it out before the weekend is over.
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