Wednesday, August 22, 2007

MARC records

I am looking for cataloging suggestions! When we are cataloging we run into a lot of things that we don't have an importable record for. So we do original cataloging. Today one of our volunteers asked, why would you do that when you can just export from the LOC and import it into our catalog. However, it not working so great for me. I get timed out of the LOC catalog before I ever get a change to do anything with it. Please tell me what I am doing wrong!

Monday, August 6, 2007

I can't believe it's over

Wow! that was a whirlwind of a summer. I learned all kinds of things, but most of all I know what I want to do with my life. . .

We run to things or away from things for all kinds of reasons. Up to this point I have done a lot of running away. Tied up by things I think I ought to be, I ran with little direction towards someone else's definition of success. I good friend of mine recently showed me just how silly my view really was by making some really bad decisions in his own life. But I also learned about personal success rather than competitive success and that I will only succeed if I am doing what I care about.