July 26
Nothing much to report really. I listened to a wide variety of music while I diligently processed the CDs in the morning. I didn't keep track but some of the variety was Chet Baker, Three Doors Down, Destiny's Child, Bobby Darin, Shimmer and a rap compilation. I think there was more that seem to have slipped my mind. Umm, but nothing too exciting. Tran finished my tray of brief records and had no comments about mistakes, which makes me happy. I have a lot more brief records ahead of me. It seems that there are more and more of them… I really impressed myself with my diligence today. Doesn't take much to impress me, though…
We got word about an MBRS party for us. It will be some sort of breakfast gathering on August 2nd. Yay! Although I don't really like breakfast food… but you know, if I have a couple bagels I'm good to go for the day. The SpecMat party was supposed to be this Thursday but I haven’t heard anything more specific about that so maybe it’s been postponed (or, God forbid, cancelled!!).
Thom & I went to lunch together and on our way back to work, we ran into Frank Evina in the elevator. Frank is like our Fellowship Master, the man from the Copyright Office who basically organized the whole ‘Junior Fellows Summer Intern’ program. He showed us that he had in his hand the layout for the big press conference next week. Each division will get its own table apparently and the "treasures" we found will be laid out. The press (whatever press there might be - I'm not expecting a whole lot) will walk around and inquire about the given treasures. Simple enough. Gene (the MBRS boss) suggested Thom & I work together on a presentation to give the press. I figure Thom will be all over that - he loves to show off that he knows a lot about music and cataloging and library stuff. Or show off what he thinks he knows, at least. We'll see.
I asked Gene what the Motion Picture interns of MBRS were doing for their “treasures” since they hadn’t really been doing anything in that regard all summer. He said they were looking through copyrighted home videos… Yes, people have copyrighted home videos! But, he said they found some footage of Marilyn Monroe attending some party and also some home footage of jazz singer Nina Simone. How cool is that? I would so much rather be looking at people’s bad video footage than listening to their bad songs. But I guess I should really stop being bitter that I was chosen for Recorded Sound and not Motion Pictures since my time left here is almost in the single digits. Anyway, Frank said there were fascinating discoveries in all the divisions. Again, we'll see.
Oh, and an interesting tidbit: I needed to mail something and I was going to use a LOC envelope, thinking it would be funny to send something in the mail from them... Right on the envelopes, it says "For Library use only, $300 fine for private use." I've never seen such a punishment listed before - people steal office supplies from their work all the time! Needless to say, I just used an envelope brought from home.
We got word about an MBRS party for us. It will be some sort of breakfast gathering on August 2nd. Yay! Although I don't really like breakfast food… but you know, if I have a couple bagels I'm good to go for the day. The SpecMat party was supposed to be this Thursday but I haven’t heard anything more specific about that so maybe it’s been postponed (or, God forbid, cancelled!!).
Thom & I went to lunch together and on our way back to work, we ran into Frank Evina in the elevator. Frank is like our Fellowship Master, the man from the Copyright Office who basically organized the whole ‘Junior Fellows Summer Intern’ program. He showed us that he had in his hand the layout for the big press conference next week. Each division will get its own table apparently and the "treasures" we found will be laid out. The press (whatever press there might be - I'm not expecting a whole lot) will walk around and inquire about the given treasures. Simple enough. Gene (the MBRS boss) suggested Thom & I work together on a presentation to give the press. I figure Thom will be all over that - he loves to show off that he knows a lot about music and cataloging and library stuff. Or show off what he thinks he knows, at least. We'll see.
I asked Gene what the Motion Picture interns of MBRS were doing for their “treasures” since they hadn’t really been doing anything in that regard all summer. He said they were looking through copyrighted home videos… Yes, people have copyrighted home videos! But, he said they found some footage of Marilyn Monroe attending some party and also some home footage of jazz singer Nina Simone. How cool is that? I would so much rather be looking at people’s bad video footage than listening to their bad songs. But I guess I should really stop being bitter that I was chosen for Recorded Sound and not Motion Pictures since my time left here is almost in the single digits. Anyway, Frank said there were fascinating discoveries in all the divisions. Again, we'll see.
Oh, and an interesting tidbit: I needed to mail something and I was going to use a LOC envelope, thinking it would be funny to send something in the mail from them... Right on the envelopes, it says "For Library use only, $300 fine for private use." I've never seen such a punishment listed before - people steal office supplies from their work all the time! Needless to say, I just used an envelope brought from home.
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