Day 17, Mostly Microfilm

Day 17
10/25/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 134

Most of my day involved cataloging microfilm TDs.  I started the day by checking the records that I worked on Friday morning.  Sevim thought I did pretty good work, but there were some changes that I had to make.  I replaced the OCLC records of the microfilm TDs that had OCLC records and put them into KentLINK as well.  For the original record I did on Friday, I just uploaded to both OCLC and KentLINK.

I also worked on five new microfilm TDs.  Three had regular records that could be mostly copied, one had a German language record that I could derive some information for but had to create a new record for, and thel last one didn't have a record in OCLC, so I had to create an original record.  One of the three that had a record in OCLC had some major errors and it looked like it had been merged with a photocopy record.  I don't have as much detail on the microfilm TDs because I don't keep as good records for those as I do for the ETDs.  Oh well.

The purely original microfilm TD that I worked on today was titled The selection and training of salesmen for the machine tools industry by James D. Robenstine.  The title basically said what this TD was about.  I chose two subject headings:  "Sales personel--Training of" and "Machine-tool industry."  I chose the call number HF5439.8.  Here's the way my subject headings look in Connexion:

650 0 Sales personnel ǂx Training of.
650 0 Machine-tool industry.

Day 1

Day 1
08/30/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 8

Today was my first day of my practicum although it wasn't actually supposed to be.  I was supposed to start work after Labor Day and totally forgot about it.  But everything worked out in the end.  I spent the majority of the day reading papers and websites related to my practicum.  I also set up OCLC Connexion on my computer in the office and learned a little about how to use it.

The papers I read were papers written by people who had done the same kind of practicum that I'm doing now.  I found the papers really helpful and informative especially in regards to the paper that I'm going to have to write after I'm done with my on-site hours.

I'll probably be doing some more reading on Friday as well.  We'll see.