D. Today I essentially spent my entire time cataloging and adding more resources into the FSN collection. The process has become fairly streamlined, especially since I can input most of the bibliographic description of each book straight from Amazon.com or Library of Congress into LibraryThing. The longest part is decided on what tags to use as subject headings. For that I have to skim the back cover, inside flap, and table of contents. I was also briefly called into a meeting today to present a short tour of the FSN collection on LibraryThing to all 4 of the FSN staff.
E. I still wish I was working faster at cataloging. I have entered in 130 records into the catalog. I think I am getting faster with the books, but the pamphlets are still taking a while because I have to enter them by hand. Also I looked at my time sheet and I need to start increasing the hours I work on this project each week. I am still taking books home to catalog from home. And next week I will be going in two days to catalog.
AL. It is hard to say what I learned this week. I feel like I am gaining knowledge of early childhood, parenting, and childhood disorders through all of the resources I am looking at about those subjects. I think I am also improving on my skills in terms of picking good subject headings and knowing when to create new ones.
This week has been very busy in other areas of my life, I have been working more hours at work and we are in the process of buying a house which is also stressful.... so hopefully next week will be calmer, but honestly I doubt it. :)
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