The Weeks Fly By

I cannot believe it is already the mid-point of my term and my experience at the State Library. My how does the time fly when I am having... fun.  I must say that the experience is indeed fun, and I do not have this dread when I enter the building like I would if I found this internship over-my-head or under-stimulating.  

The digitalization effort's items are all organized now and, starting Tuesday the 13th (likely) I will start to digitize and upload the objects to CONTENTdm.  It should take a few weeks to get these objects converted and organized.  As of now I have some clues to what "Dublin Core" metadata standards will be employed, but I do not know what Innovations would like to pair it to: our own standards or the standards of the confederated group to which we belong.  The digitalization process physically using the scanner is easy, perhaps dull, and fairly painless.

What the other portion of my internship is about is basically observation: I do not know what I will do professionally in this ever-changing information environment, nor do I want to constrain myself to a projection.  I want to gain enough of a close embrace with this environment to see how Catherine Morgan deals with the issues before her, which are many.  I am grateful to get to see, for instance, the back-end of technical issues around SCLends and Evergreen data-merging.  I am grateful to see how the library takes a leadership role in cataloging training.  I am grateful for my future experiences in this regard, for it gives me a vista into what being a Systems Librarian is about, as it seems a close cousin to my desired role (still vaporously defined) as a information professional / eventual CIO who must coordinate different departments and alliances as a leader both in technology and central position. 

Oh, and I may be recreating the South Carolina State Library in Second Life =D