Day 19

Day 19
11/01/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 146

On Friday I started doing the descriptive cataloging for my first batch of honor's papers which is basically a bachelor's version of a thesis.  I had nine different honor's papers, and they were all in different areas of study.  The subject areas covered in these honor's papers are:  art, theatre, nursing, design theory (school of art), political science, chemistry, psychology, film, and geology.  Only two of the nine did their forms incorrectly and need NARs.

The first honor's paper I subject cataloged today was a theater one titled THE SHOW IS IN THE DETAILS: LEARNING ABOUT A STUDENT DIRECTOR’S PROCESS FROM THE INSIDE by Erin McManus.  The author discusses learning her experiences of discovering her process for director and describes the process of three professional directors.  This honor's paper was interesting, and I sent a copy to my friend Tim because he's into theater and thought he would be interested.  The first concepts I thought of for this were theater directing and something to do with concept and processs.  Unfortunately I could not find any subject headings for the ideas of concept and process.  The concept of theater directing was translated into "Theater--Production and direction" in LCSH.  I also thought I should add the heading "Theatrical producers and directors" because the paper is also about them.  Wikipedia was not needed.  Here are the subject headings that I ended up with:

650 0 Theater ǂx Production and direction.
650 0 Theatrical producers and directors.

Sevim suggested that I remove "Theatrical producers and directors" unless I thought it should really be on there.  I couldn't think of a good enough reason to keep it on there.  Here are my final subject headings in MARC:

650 0 Theater ǂx Production and direction.

The second honor's paper I cataloged was an art one titled Innate Materiality by April Bachtel.  I thought her painting was pretty cool.  She does abstract painting and relief painting.  Relief painting is when you put enough paint on the canvas so that it causes the painting to look three dimensional and stick out.  I used wikipedia to get more information about both abstract painting and relief painting, but both of those were keywords assigned by the author and were easy to find in LCSH.  Subject headings were relatively easy for this one.  I chose three different ones which were:  "Bachtel, April--Exhibitions," "Painting, Abstract--United States--21st century--Exhibitions," and "Relief (Art)--United States--21st century--Exhibitions."  The difficult part of this paper was assigning the call number.  I had a hard time finding which call number to use because the number for an individual artist for painting is not as clearly laid out as it is for ceramic sculptures.  I found the call number ND237.B334 ǂb A4 2011 by searching for various recent American artists in OhioLINK and noticing that they all had the same number just with a different cutter.  This is how I made my decision.  The artists I looked for were Andy Warhol and Jacob Collins.  Here are my subject headings in MARC form:

600 10 Bachtel, April ǂv Exhibitions.
650 0 Painting, Abstract ǂz United States ǂy 21st century ǂv Exhibitions.
650 0 Relief (Art) ǂz United States ǂy 21st century ǂv Exhibitions

Sevim liked my subject headings but wasn't sure about my call number at first.  After some investigation, she accept it.

The third honor's paper that I cataloged was a nursing one titled Lived Experiences of Nurses: Nurse Characteristics by Clinical Specialty by Rebecca J. Barreca.  This paper was really just about the experiences of nine different nurses each with a different specialty.  I had a hard time coming up with subject headings for this one because the topic is so broad.  I ended up using the subject headings "Nursing--Psychological aspects" and "Nursing specialties--Psychological aspects" because I felt that the paper was about the psychological aspects of both nursing and its specialties.  I also used the field "Nurses--Attitudes" because I felt that paper is about what nurses think and feel.  That was also the subject heading that got me the closest to dealing with their experiences.  I based the call number on "Nursing--Psychological aspects."  I didn't need Wikipedia for this paper.  Here is the MARC format of the subject headings I chose:

650 0Nursing ǂx Psychological aspects.
650 0Nursing specialties ǂx Psychological aspects.
650 0Nurses ǂx Attitudes.

Sevim suggested that I remove "Nursing--Psychological aspects" because the paper was about nursing specialties first and foremost, so I did.  Here are the final headings in MARC format:

650 0 Nursing specialties ǂx Psychological aspects.
650 0 Nurses ǂx Attitudes.

The third honor's paper that I cataloged today is a bizarre fine arts one titled Notes between Yesterday and Tomorrow: Queering Perceptions toward Homotopia by Nicolas Joyce.  So after reading basically the whole paper, I still don't really have an idea of what it's about.  I guess it's about queer theory and gender identity.  It seems like from what I read about queer theory on Wikipedia that it's a good bet that this paper is about it, particularly because queer theory comes out of post-structuralism and radical deconstruction which often both have material that is almost unreadable.  Anyways, I choose the subject headings "Queer theory" and "Gender identity."  I chose my call number based on queer theory.  The number dealt with philosophy and aestetics which seemed appropriate.  Here's the MARC format of my subject headings:

650 0 Queer theory.
650 0 Gender identity.

Sevim suggested I remove "Gender identity" and change the call number, so I did.  Here are the final headings in MARC format:

650 0 Queer theory.

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 16

Day 16
10/21/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 126

 Today I started with cataloging five microfilm theses and dissertations.  Four of the microfilm TDs had OCLC records which I merely had to go and correct any errors.  The other one did not have a record in OCLC, so I had to do completely original cataloging for it.  This microfilm TD was an education thesis titled Survey of methods and materials in the teaching of transcription in public secondary schools by Ethel Luella Mart.  Because doing in depth reading on the microfilm reading is difficult, I only read a couple of pages to determine what the subject headings were.  Both the title and those first couple of pages both gave me the idea that this thesis was simply about teaching transcription skills in secondary schools, so I used the subject heading "Transcription--Study and teaching (Secondary)."  It was pretty simple.  Everything else was pretty straightforward.  Here are the subject headings:

650 0 Transcription ǂx Study and teaching (Secondary)

Sevim liked both my subject heading and my call number. 

After finishing with the microfilm records, I started cataloging some ETDs.  The first ETD I cataloged today was a teaching, learning, and curriculum studies dissertation titled Skype™: A Portal Into the 21^st Century in a Secondary Spanish Classroom by Colleen A. Blaurock.  This thesis was a study that consisted of pairing up Non-Native Speakers (NNSs) with Native Speakers (NSs) over Skype to help the NNS learn the language.  This study researched students who were learning Spanish, but it could easily applied to other languages.  I didn't have a hard time of thinking of analyzing the concepts of this dissertation, but I did have a little difficulty chosing which subject headings I wanted.  I tried to find a subject heading for foreign language educatin, but there was not a heading for that.  Next, I tried to find a heading for second language education and found "Second language acquisition."  However this heading is only used for sociological and psychological aspects of learning a second language rather than just teaching and learning a second language.  I decided to use this heading because the dissertation talks is also about the experiences of the students who participated in the study.  To convey the educational aspect, I chose "Language and languages--Study and teaching (Secondary)."  There were many different methods in the narrower topics of that heading, and Wikipedia and a Google search helped me learn a little more about them so I could rule them out.  I also wanted to have a heading to bring out the technology aspect of this dissertation.  There were a few options.  The first one I found was "Computer assisted instruction," but this heading is more for when automated computer applications instruct people.  I also found "Educational technology" which I decided to use because the article is about using Skype as an educational technology.  The call number I chose was P53.6 which means that it's about the study and teaching of oral communication of languages.  I'm not 100% happy with this number and might change it to the general works number.  Here are my subject headings:

650 0 Language and languages ǂx Study and teaching (Secondary).
650 0 Second language acquisition.
650 0 Educational technology.

Sevim liked the subject headings I had, but she suggested that I created a subject heading for the concept of computer mediated communication.  The subject heading for that concept is "Telematics."  I also changed the call number to P53.855 to reflect that it's about technological innovation rather than oral communication.  Here are the final subject headings:

650 0Language and languages ǂx Study and teaching (Secondary)
650 0Second language acquisition.
650 0Telematics.
650 0Educational technology.

The second ETD that I cataloged was a Foundations, Leadership, and Administration dissertation titled The Third Culture Kid (TCK) Experience: Adult-TCKS’ Reflections On Their Multicultural Childhood, Its Impact On Student-Teacher Relationships In U.S. Classrooms And Their Recommendations For Multicultural Teacher Education In The United States by Gretchen L. Espinetti.  This dissertation is about the Third Culture Kid (TCK) and how adult ones can help teachers with multicultural education.  TCKs are children who are raised in a different culture than their parents and move back to their parent's country of origin at some point.  The dissertation also talks about teacher-student relationships.  This one was tough because a lot of the concepts in the book had no subject headings associated with them, so I had a hard time choosing subject headings.  Wikipedia was helpful in me gaining an understanding of some of the concepts presented like TCK, but it wasn't helpful in choosing any subject headings.  I couldn't find a heading that had anything to do with TCK or any iteration of the concept like multicultural children, trans-cultural children, and cross-cultural children.  None of them were in LCSH.  So I had to focus on other aspects of the work.  I decided to use the heading "Multicultural education--United States" since multicultural education is mentioned in the title, abstracted, and the work itself.  And since it talks about how TCKs can help multicultural teacher education, I decided on the subject heading "Teachers--Training of--United States."  The relationships between TCKs and their teachers is also discussed in the dissertation, so I decided to use the heading "Teacher-student relationships--United States" based on that.  I performed a WorldCat search on TCKs to find my last heading which is "American students--Foreign influences."  I decided to use that subject heading because I found it is the best way to give a heading to the concept of TCK.  I don't know if it'll work or not, but I thought I'd give it a try.  Here are my subject headings:

650 0Multicultural education ǂz United States.
650 0American students ǂx Foreign influences.
650 0Teachers ǂx Training of ǂz United States.
650 0Teacher-student relationships ǂz United States.

Sevim really liked this ETD and wanted to read it.  She liked the subject headings, but she thought that I should take out the "Teachers--Training of--United States" because the paper wasn't about that and only gave reccommendations for it.  She also said that I need to change the call number slightly to show that it's about the United States.  Here are the final subject headings:

650 0Multicultural education ǂz United States.
650 0American students ǂx Foreign influences.
650 0Teacher-student relationships ǂz United States.

Day 15, First Time With Microfilm

Day 15
10/18/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 4:00
Hours Worked: 7
Total Hours: 118

 
I started the day by getting Sevim to check the records that I did on Friday.  All the changes for those records was put in Friday's blog post.

Today, I worked on microfilm for the first time today.  I learned how to operate the machine and view the microfilm.  I learned that it hurts my eyes to look at for too long.  First, Sevim got me to read a document that introduced me to some of the things that are different about a microform record.  Then, Sevim and I looked at some theses and dissertations that were on microfilm, and she wanted me to find the information to check to see if the records from OCLC were correct.  There was one reel of mircofilm that didn't have a record on OCLC (which was actually a government document rather than a theses or dissertation), so I had to pick out the information necessary to create a record.  Then, Sevim set me to correct the other records and create an original record for the government document.  This record wasn't that hard to make except for a series statement that I didn't know what to put in.  I did some searches on WorldCat to figure out what to put in the 490 and 830 fields.  The government document was a study of art activities for mentally handicapped children.  I chose the subject heading "Art--Study and teaching" and Children with mental disabilities--Education--United States."  Sevim checked my work and said it was pretty good overall except for a couple of changes.  She suggested that I subdivide both my subject headings with "United States."  Here's what I ended up with:

650 0 Children with mental disabilities ǂx Education ǂz United States.
650 0 Art ǂx Study and teaching ǂz United States.

The first ETD that I cataloged today was a teaching, learning, and curriculum studies dissertations titled Mid-career teachers’ perspectives on the sustaining power of hope: A Q methodological study by Anita C. Levine.  This ETD was about how mid-career teachers cope with stress and burnout.  I had a lot of ideas for subject headings, but the ideas that I had which I thought fit the aboutness of the dissertation the most were not in LCSH.  Also I had trouble connecting concepts like hope and hopelessness to teachers with LCSH.  There was not a heading for teacher attrition, but there was a heading for teacher stress which is "Teacher--Job stress" which I subdivided by "United States."  I had a lot of other concepts that I wanted add.  So I added "Adjustment (Psychology)--United States" (for coping), "Burn out (Psychology)," "Hope," "Despair--United States," and "Teacher morale--United States."  I didn't need Wikipedia for this one.  Here's the subject headings that I used:

650 0 Teachers ǂx Job stress ǂz United States.
650 0 Adjustment (Psychology) ǂz United States
650 0 Burn out (Psychology)
650 0 Hope.
650 0 Despair ǂz United States.
650 0 Teacher morale ǂz United States.

When Sevim looked over this one, she like most of the subject headings I had but said that I should get rid of some and change the order of the ones left over.  She suggested that I remove "Burn out (Psychology)" because she didn't really feel that someone searching for an article on burnout would be happy to find this article and "Despair--United States" because when you have two opposite concepts, you usually chose only one.  She also suggested that I move "Teacher morale--United States" closer to the top.  Sevim wanted to remove "Adjustment (Psychology)--United States," but I convinced her to keep it since it is the subject heading for conveying the idea of coping which is what the article is about.  Here are the final headings that I chose:

650 0Teachers ǂx Job stress ǂz United States.
650 0Teacher morale ǂz United States.
650 0Hope.
650 0Adjustment (Psychology) ǂz United States.

Day 13

Day 13
10/11/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 104

The first ETD I cataloged today was an MFA thesis, a play, titled Fire Dance by Michael S. Parsons.  This play is about two brothers who come together after their mother dies.  I choose the subject heading "Brothers--Drama."  The call number that I chose was PS3616.A775 ǂb F57 2011.  That's all that was needed and here's the headings I chose:

650 0 Brothers ǂv Drama.

Sevim suggested that I performed a WorldCat browse to find out where to put a call number.  The new call number that I decided on was PS3616.A7827 ǂb F57 2011.
The second ETD that I cataloged today was an art thesis, an exhibition, titled Darker Now by Andrew Martin Simmons.  The first heading was the name of the artist with the subdivision "Exhibitions."  The artist created two kinds of art for the thesis.  The first one was easily identified as ceramic sculpture, but the second one was a little more difficult to classify.  For the second one, he took leaflets and changed them in some way with what looked like paint.  I had a hard time figuring out what to do with this one.  I finally figured out using a combination of Wikipedia and ClassificationWeb that this was called mixed media painting and that there was a subject heading for it, so I chose that one.   So these are the headings that I ended up with:

60010Simmons, Andrew Martin ǂv Exhibitions.
650 0Ceramic sculpture ǂz United States ǂy 21st century ǂv Exhibitions.
650 0Mixed media painting ǂz United States ǂy 21st century ǂv Exhibitions.

Sevim said that this one was good.

The third ETD I cataloged today was a nursing dissertation titled The Experiences of Living with Excess Weight as an Adolescent: Everyday Life and Healthcare Encounters by Robin Lynne Brian.  This dissertation was a phenomenological study of the experiences of obese adolescents.  The subjects interviewed were limited to Ohio.  It wasn't really about anything other than this.  The subject heading I chose was "Obesity in adolescence--Ohio."  Here are the headings that I have:

650 0Obesity in adolescence ǂz Ohio.

Sevim suggested that I change the subdivision from "Ohio" to "United States" because it's not really important that it's in Ohio but that it's in the United States.  She also suggested I add the heading "Obesity in adolescence--United States--Psychological aspects."  These are the headings that I ended up with:

650 0 Obesity in adolescence ǂz United States.
650 0 Obesity in adolescence ǂz United States ǂx Psychological aspects.
The last ETD that I cataloged today was a political science dissertation titled International Labor Migration from Rural Central Asia: The Potential for Development in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Halil Kursad Aslan.  The dissertation was about people migrating from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to primarily Russia and what effect this had on economic development in both of those countries because of the money send back both countries by their workers in Russia.  I wanted to have a subject heading for migration, but that wasn't available.  The subject heading "Migrant workers" was for people moving from one part of the country to another, and "Foreign workers" is used from people who move from one country to another.  So I chose that heading and subdivided it by both countries.  Then I used the heading "Economic development" and subdivided it by both countries.  Then I created the subject headings "Kyrgyzstan--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects" and "Uzbekistan--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects" when I found the "Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects" subdivision.  Finally the dissertation talks a lot about remittance earnings.  A search in LCSH for remittance earnings lead me to the subject heading "Emigrant remittances" which I subdivided by both the countries.  I used "Foreign workers" as the basis for my call number and had trouble decided between two call numbers (both of which I had to construct from Tables).  The call numbers were for a Central Asian General Labor call number (HD8670.22) and one focused on Kyrgyzstan specifically (HD8670.24).  I chose the former, but I'm not sure about it.  I'm going to get Sevim to look at it.  Here are all the subject headings I used:

651 0Kyrgyzstan ǂx Emigration and immigration ǂx Economic aspects.
651 0Uzbekistan ǂx Emigration and immigration ǂx Economic aspects.
650 0Foreign workers ǂz Kyrgyzstan.
650 0Foreign workers ǂz Uzbekistan.
650 0Economic development ǂz Kyrgyzstan.
650 0Economic development ǂz Uzbekistan.
650 0Emigrant remittances ǂz Kyrgyzstan.
650 0Emigrant remittances ǂz Kyrgyzstan.

Sevim suggested that I remove both the "Foreign workers" headings because they imply that foreign workers are coming into Krygyzstan and Uzbekistan.  She also said that I should use the call number that focuses on Krygyzstan (HD8670.24) because the dissertation only talks about two countries.  Here are the headings that I ended up with:

651 0 Kyrgyzstan ǂx Emigration and immigration ǂx Economic aspects.
651 0 Uzbekistan ǂx Emigration and immigration ǂx Economic aspects.
650 0 Economic development ǂz Kyrgyzstan.
650 0 Economic development ǂz Uzbekistan.
650 0 Emigrant remittances ǂz Kyrgyzstan.
650 0 Emigrant remittances ǂz Uzbekistan.

Day 11, Descriptive Cataloging

Day 11 

10/04/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 88

The first part of the day was finishing the descriptive cataloging that I started on Friday for my third batch of ETDs.  I have 20 ETDs to work on in this new batch.  4 of them are restricted, and all the information that I have available for the descriptive and subject cataloging comes from the OhioLINK ETD Center page. This is the breakdown of the ETDs by subject:

Geology:  1
English:  3
Political Science:  2
Art Education:  1
Fine Art:  2
Psychology:  1
Creative Writing:  2
Nursing:  1
Foundations , Leadership, and Administration:  3
Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum:  4

I think this is going to be a rough batch of ETDs.  Some of them seem like they are going to be hard to subject catalog.  We'll see how it goes.

Day 6, Descriptive Cataloging the Second Batch

Day 6
09/16/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 48

On Tuesday, I finished subject cataloging all of the first batch of ETD records that were in the system when I first started my practicum.  Now I am starting on the second batch of ETDs that contains 18 records.  My first batch of ETDs cotained 12 records.

Since I hadn't done any descriptive cataloging of ETDs in two weeks, I had to readjust to doing it and remember all of the steps that needed to be taken to make sure that the record is accurate.  I made a couple of mistakes in the beginning, but I quickly discovered that I had made them and corrected them.  While working with these records, I came across something that I haven't dealt with yet.  For two of the records in the new batch, the full-text version has not been released yet and won't be released while I'm doing my practicum.  Sevim guided me through what to do in this kind of situation, and it was pretty easy to deal with.  I was able to deal with the second one of these by myself.

Half of the records in the new batch need a Name Authority Record (NAR) because either the authors didn't follow the directions and use the same name they used in their thesis or dissertation on the ETD form, or the author has an common name that's already in the Authority Record.

I finally got a Philosophy thesis.  That makes me pretty happy.  I believe it is about Aristotle.  Maybe it'll give me a good idea of what I want to do mine on whenever I get the opportunity.  I can't think of anything else to add.