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Week 11
·It’s the final week of the quarter, and almost the end of my DFW experience. This week was mostly spent finishing up CD cataloging and meeting with Cate to review what my completed records. I’ve come a long way and many times the records I create look good, but there are still small things, such as when to include punctuation...
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Week 10
·I can’t believe it’s week 10 already (I counted week 0 as week 1 so the timing is off a bit). I still have next week and finals week to continue cataloging and wrap things up. I had an interview for a job this past weekend so Cate and I talked through some of the things I would potentially be...
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Week 9
·Cate was out of office for a few days this week, so while I met with her at the beginning of the week, I spent the rest working on my own and mostly from home. I continued cataloging ETDs and sound recordings, specifically CDs. Cataloging music is different from cataloging books and ETDs. With ETDs I do some basic checking...
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Week 8
·I continued cataloging music this week, along with doing some ETDs. Unfortunately I was sick so I wasn’t able to come in to the library at all, but I had plenty to work on from home. One of the CDs I had grabbed was actually a duplicate, so I only had one CD to work on, but I took my...
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Week 7
·Music cataloging!
This week I met with Cate twice to begin learning how to catalog popular music. I chose a few CDs from the cart outside her office and brought them in to start working on. We started with the eponymous album Yuck. I learned how to upgrade a record from AACR2 to RDA and all the changes involved, such...