This week I came across both some very interesting and super boring parts of cataloging books. On the first day of the internship week I went through about half a dozen scrapbooks containing mostly clippings of local historical landmarks and buildings and their processes toward historic preservation. It was very cool to see even those who are not directly "interested" in history still show their connection to the past through their collections in materials such as scrapbooks.
The second day of my internship week, I began cataloging a collection of yearly publications from a magazine. All of the cataloged information was the same in every entry except for the Vol. and years. This was super boring.
Overall, I am still getting German books every once in awhile. Judging by the remainder of the shelves that need to be cataloged, you will probably hear me mention several more times that I wish I would have taken German in High School. My next job is to catalog several personal library collections, which apparently some were owned by German immigrants. This should be fun so stay up to date here on the blog. :)
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