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I went on this tour today: "Follow the fascinating journey each Yale Library book goes through from the point that it is selected and acquired by the library to the intricate cataloging process, to the point that it finally reaches the shelf. This truly behind-the-scenes tour will take you through areas of the library otherwise inaccessible to the public. Participants will have the chance to see the various processes each book goes through. The tour will begin in the Acquisitions Department where over 120,000 books, periodicals and microforms are received and processed annually. Meet the forty staff members who work with nearly 3,000 publishers, vendors, and booksellers to acquire materials published in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Western Europe. Then progress into the Cataloging Department where each book is classified and given a description. Find out how call numbers are designated so that books from all over the world are given their proper places in Yale's collections. The tour also includes a rare tour of the library's Preservation Department where damaged and special collection items are conserved, receiving a new lease on life! The tour will include visits to the Reformatting, Commercial Binding, Collection Care and Conservation units, where you can see examples of items being selected for microfilming, preservation photocopying and deacidification. This absorbing, one-hour tour will open your eyes to a whole new world behind the scenes at the Yale Library."
My only reflections at this point are: 1.) they really treat the librarians like mole people at Yale. 2.) I am having serious doubts about my career choice and 3.) the most interesting jobs seemed to be preservation related, and thus not what I'm studying. All the preservationists were smoking. As in totally hot (well, two were older, but they were 80% hot). This is an entirely different study path, one that I am not on. 4.) Many academics are pompous. 5.) S. R.'s facility was mentioned with revernce in the following context: "that Hamden shelving facility...a tour of that would be illuminating!"
I also want to mention that I neglected to mention the extensive conversation about heel spurs, bunions, and foot troubles we had at "club" on Monday. The quotes because it was really a jazzy chat session. If you like, you may use these topics to spur your writing. I am such a dork for that pun in the last sentence. Oh, and check out this week's Advocate for info on tomorrow's evening's Phil Birthday Bash at Daniel Street. Ice luge, guys, you know you want to take shots from it.
Love, Beverly
posted by Beverly Writer at 3/29/2006
6 Comments:
Preservation interests me as well. Much.
ice luge=love, however i will be at work per usual.... hot librarians also=love. i want a calendar of them!
steve there are some schools where one can study it in the region, the head of the preservation dept at sterling said, like about 6 in the new england area.
i want to know where these schools are and go to one of them. screw speech therapy. let the kids stutter and lisp. it's charming.
as for conini the younger - i was looking in the advocate last night and first i chuckled when i read that he might be known as "the brother of jon conini." second, i yelled "ice luge" out loud when i read that (as if i was really REALLY excited about it). and finally, in regards to the myspace bulletin about said party, i like the use of numerals in the last name - co9. very clever.
we shall make a calendar of hot librarians for the librarian association of hotness, to bring and breathe new hotness into the profession. I am very into this. I'll also have you know I sucked the midterm (so many questions about it remain) and then I got very drunk to dull the pain. Ice luges are cool, but unhygenic I think.
guys, i hope you will be meeting tonight without me and have a rockin literary time! then please post the minutes so that i may live vicariously. and beverly, i am so all over taking a bike ride with you when i get back! the cherry blossoms should be out soon!
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