July 5
Back to the grind... I admit that I felt like I didn't do much today but I suppose that is not that abnormal for a day back after a long weekend.
I spent a great deal of time in the morning talking to one of my co-workers. She is Thom's mentor and I kind of wish she was mine. I like her. Then later, Mary, the woman who works here who is always eager to show us Jr. Fellows new things, explained how they do an inventory of the backlog in the department each quarter. It was due today so she showed us where all the different items are kept - brand new items, older hard-to-catalog items, etc... New items come in and basically sit on a shelf for 30 days before they are transferred to a different area of the office. Mary doesn't like to have to transfer items and prefers that the stuff gets done before those 30 days are up. Most of the items that are transferred are items in foreign languages. Actually, a lot of the cataloging that gets done here seems to be items in foreign languages because a lot of the English language stuff is already cataloged by like OCLC or RLIN. Mary thinks it is a major waste of time for a staffmember to try to do original cataloging for any sort of item that might be found elsewhere. Apparently, not everyone agrees with her. Unfortunately for them, Mary has a lot of power and a lot of opinions about how things should be done. She's instituting change in a place that is very resistant to change. Anyhoo, it was nice to sort of get an understanding of the layout of the department after a month here.
In the afternoon (which was pretty short considering Mary didn't finish showing us around until about 1:45 and then Thom & I went to lunch at a yummy Chinese restaurant!), I seemed to have no other choice but to find a new record label that is not sending two copies of its catalog to the Copyright Office. Ho hum. I found a couple to keep me busy for the time being. I'm really hoping for a new project for the afternoon, though. Soon, I mean.
I spent a great deal of time in the morning talking to one of my co-workers. She is Thom's mentor and I kind of wish she was mine. I like her. Then later, Mary, the woman who works here who is always eager to show us Jr. Fellows new things, explained how they do an inventory of the backlog in the department each quarter. It was due today so she showed us where all the different items are kept - brand new items, older hard-to-catalog items, etc... New items come in and basically sit on a shelf for 30 days before they are transferred to a different area of the office. Mary doesn't like to have to transfer items and prefers that the stuff gets done before those 30 days are up. Most of the items that are transferred are items in foreign languages. Actually, a lot of the cataloging that gets done here seems to be items in foreign languages because a lot of the English language stuff is already cataloged by like OCLC or RLIN. Mary thinks it is a major waste of time for a staffmember to try to do original cataloging for any sort of item that might be found elsewhere. Apparently, not everyone agrees with her. Unfortunately for them, Mary has a lot of power and a lot of opinions about how things should be done. She's instituting change in a place that is very resistant to change. Anyhoo, it was nice to sort of get an understanding of the layout of the department after a month here.
In the afternoon (which was pretty short considering Mary didn't finish showing us around until about 1:45 and then Thom & I went to lunch at a yummy Chinese restaurant!), I seemed to have no other choice but to find a new record label that is not sending two copies of its catalog to the Copyright Office. Ho hum. I found a couple to keep me busy for the time being. I'm really hoping for a new project for the afternoon, though. Soon, I mean.
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