Today I was on the front reference desk with Heather again. While the reference desk was slow, she was teaching me about her methods of collection development. Heather is the librarian in charge of the children’s picture books. She is probably the only librarian in the library who actually has the chance to read all … Continue reading »
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Internship Day 10
It was another full day at the library. For about three hours I researched children’s music to put in each early literacy kit. Normally, I’m not a fan of children’s music. Especially the kind that has children singing. But I had a lot of fun looking for good kids music that wouldn’t be annoying for … Continue reading »
Internship Day 8
I should probably think of a new way of titling these internship posts. Then again, it will be interesting to see how many days I end up with. Anyways, today I was on the reference desk for 4 hours with Monica. As a result of some internal restructuring and new allocation of library departments, Monica … Continue reading »
Phase One Complete
In the ongoing move to a Dewey-free nonfiction collection, the first part of the project is completed. All of the nonfiction books were removed from their shelves and organized by topic. About a third of the books have been put in new record sets according to topic. Here’s the temporary workstation where I was processing … Continue reading »
Do you Dewey?
Today, the library where I work began a (hopefully) week-long project to transition our nonfiction collection to a Dewey-free layout. First, all of the books need to be removed from the shelves and sorted by topic. We will affix stickers on the spines of each book identifying the topic and update the library catalog with … Continue reading »
