Three, three, three days in one!

This is for Friday the 25th, Saturday the 26th and Monday the 28th.

Friday: Was introduced to the citation poster project. Lou brought back from the ILF conference a poster about how to do citations which she thinks would be great to tailor to government documents. There is some information online via the GIMSS website, but nothing handy in the library. I spent most of the day trying to figure out how to cite various pieces and discovered that there is a standard but there aren't many specifics for the various kinds of gov docs out there, which is interesting considering the great behemoth bureaucracy that is the government.

Saturday: Slow, short day. Answered some questions regarding the microforms, did some more research on the citations.

Monday: Continued citations. Moved examples to Photoshop because although Lou does her posters in PowerPoint, I can't figure out how to do it. I feel like I am getting my "sea legs" as far as answering questions goes...I don't have to confer with the fulltime staff nearly as often as I once did. Considering I haven't done this kind of job before, really, I think that's pretty good.

Article #1

Chepesiuk, R. (2005). Chronicling the Cold War. American Libraries 36(2), p. 36-37.

The effects of the fall of Soviet Russia are still being felt in the world of government documents. A wealth of highly useful, formerly top-secret, nearly unorganized documents are becoming available to average users. The Cold War International History Project aims to collect documents (or copies of them) and make them available to the Western world. They maintain strong working ties with LOC as well as educational institutions. One of CWIHP's main goals is to provide educators with access to primary documents for teaching about communism and the Cold War. Their staff is very small with no full-time librarian, although they have hired library consultants in the past. They are attempting to make their online records metadata-rich for good searching, as their collection has many unique features (they are in all different lanugages, produced by different governments, etc.)

Also today: a severe paper jam and a quick brush up on legislative process.

Lax Blogging

Last week I worked from home a bit and then on Friday I answered a few questions here but mostly spent my time looking at articles and helping people with microform questions. And I put stickers on some microform reference materials but couldnt' shelve them. Today I anticipate looking for KGB documents/archives, more stuff about the cuban missile crisis, microforms questions and perhaps my web page.