This time next week I’ll be preparing for my trip to ALA. The emails and flyers are starting to come more often now, I get at least six emails a day and 5 flyers in my mailbox from solicitors. And everyone is offering an I-pad as a prize to a sweepstakes. I wonder if it’s the … Continue reading »
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Internship: Summer Weeding Phase 1
I just finished the first phase of the summer weeding project that I will be working on at my internship last week. For the last couple of weeks I’ve been running reports from a site called BowkerBookAnalysis*. It allows us to see which books in the library collection are considered core titles and we should … Continue reading »
Internship: Processing Donations!
Got to sit in on a staff meeting at my internship. While it was a bit informal and short because everyone was slightly still frazzled due to the end of the semester it was still interesting to sit in and listen on each department share what was going on in their world. Afterwards I started on … Continue reading »
Internship: Working on the Catalog
My internship started off with finishing the Textbook Search Project. It didn’t take long because I had made great progress the last time. So I was able to finish that one project and send it to my director. And then I started a second project that is the precursor to a major project I will … Continue reading »
Internship: Tech Services and Archives
Today in my internship I started the day with a mini project to help my director. I’m calling it the Textbook Search Project; I had to collect the prices and titles of textbooks for 100-200 level general courses. They are thinking about added the service to Access Service department where you can check out for … Continue reading »
Internship: Instructional Observation
Today at my internship I did some observation of the Instructional Reference Librarian. Although I have experience in working in both academic and public libraries and was a teacher assistant for a year, I think that’s were my weakness lies. Instruction. I think my confidence is low when it comes to passing on the knowledge … Continue reading »
Updates
A couple of weeks ago I interviewd for a positon at a public library near me. Well I got it ^_^. I’m now the Administrive Support Assistant at my local library. It’s only part time but it’s better than nothing really. And once May ends I’ll be back to getting my regular stipend amounts. So … Continue reading »
Internship: Reference Overview
Today at my internship I met with the department head of reference. It was me and another scholar. Basically we sat with her and talked about the reference department and what entailed being an reference librarian. She was really nice and answered all of our questions. Afterwards we all went to lunch and just talked … Continue reading »
My Poor Blog
I’ve been so neglecting my blogs, I’ve been so sidetracked with school and trying to figure out what I’m going to do. But I promise to get back in the grove of updating this. Updates! School Yes, I’m back in classes, I’ve missed two weeks in two classes and one week in one class. So … Continue reading »
