August 2
Back to work. Today was kind of a busy day. I worked in cataloging for an hour in the morning. Then it was time for the Recorded Sound group party for us interns. Lots of breakfast foods (bagels, doughnuts, danishes, deviled eggs and yummy fruit) and, better yet, GIFTS! Yes, the department actually bought us gifts which was really unexpected and fantastic. We got a MBRS book, a Library of Congress pen and Library of Congress post-it notes. They are all pretty cool. You, too, can have a copy of the book as I found a PDF of the entire book.
After the party, our bosses Gene and Nancy met with us to talk about our big presentation of our "treasures" on Thursday. Gene gave us some tips about what to say and what to do. It's just me and Thom and Thom is a music know-it-all so I sort of feel superfluous. I know if I start talking, he'll just interrupt and cut me off anyway. I'm really not looking forward to this whole big event and it's being advertised like crazy. There are signs up everywhere; emails have been sent out to staff, announcements have been made and we were even on the front page of The Gazette (the Library's employee newsletter - and I'm guessing that link won't work but I figured I would try it anyway) last week, complete with picture. Besides the 4,000+ Library staff, press and Congresspeople are supposedly invited. I'm guessing not many Library employees are going to walk over to the Jefferson building to see our "treasures" but then again, it's kind of hard to read the people who work here - anything to get away from actually working seems to entice most so who knows. Don't forget, there are tunnels so it doesn't require much effort to walk over there. Also, there's a two-hour timeframe.
Besides that, we had a MBRS meeting, which happens monthly and primarily covers issues relating to the big move to the Culpeper facility next year. After the meeting, we walked over to the Adams building (which is actually even farther away and still probably only took 15 minutes so my theory that people won't walk to the Jefferson building is probably way wrong) to get some of the CD images scanned by some fancy-schmancy digital imaging machine for the Web site. I'll let you know when I find the site.
Anyway, when Thursday is over I'll be much relieved. And ready to go home as I'm not happy that the place I'm staying has roaches. This is not a new development; however, the one I saw tonight was about 4 times larger than any of the other ones I'd seen - and it was alive, while the others were already dead. Ick, ick.
After the party, our bosses Gene and Nancy met with us to talk about our big presentation of our "treasures" on Thursday. Gene gave us some tips about what to say and what to do. It's just me and Thom and Thom is a music know-it-all so I sort of feel superfluous. I know if I start talking, he'll just interrupt and cut me off anyway. I'm really not looking forward to this whole big event and it's being advertised like crazy. There are signs up everywhere; emails have been sent out to staff, announcements have been made and we were even on the front page of The Gazette (the Library's employee newsletter - and I'm guessing that link won't work but I figured I would try it anyway) last week, complete with picture. Besides the 4,000+ Library staff, press and Congresspeople are supposedly invited. I'm guessing not many Library employees are going to walk over to the Jefferson building to see our "treasures" but then again, it's kind of hard to read the people who work here - anything to get away from actually working seems to entice most so who knows. Don't forget, there are tunnels so it doesn't require much effort to walk over there. Also, there's a two-hour timeframe.
Besides that, we had a MBRS meeting, which happens monthly and primarily covers issues relating to the big move to the Culpeper facility next year. After the meeting, we walked over to the Adams building (which is actually even farther away and still probably only took 15 minutes so my theory that people won't walk to the Jefferson building is probably way wrong) to get some of the CD images scanned by some fancy-schmancy digital imaging machine for the Web site. I'll let you know when I find the site.
Anyway, when Thursday is over I'll be much relieved. And ready to go home as I'm not happy that the place I'm staying has roaches. This is not a new development; however, the one I saw tonight was about 4 times larger than any of the other ones I'd seen - and it was alive, while the others were already dead. Ick, ick.
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