LAST DAY!!!

Today is my last day as a government documents intern. I got my evaluation from Lou, and I thought that it was a very fair assesment of my abilities and areas that I need to work on. It's funny that the areas that I am always worried about are not always what my supervisors are worried about; for example, I worry about my reliability, but they never do. I don't know WHY I do, but I do. Maybe I"m afraid of becoming unreliable someday and so I worry about it.

Anyway, I need to work on decision making skills, attention to detail, ability to select the best resources for a question, ability to organize & classify info best, and professionalism. But it's not like I failed those areas, I just didn't get "excellent"--just good. And those are all areas that I think any intern should expect to have to work on. Also, I think that given more time here, several of those areas could have been improved.

At least I wasn't ever scored as "dull" like SLIS interns of olden days--before they changed the grading sheet, an intern's intelligence was marked on a scale from "sharp" to "dull" or something equally non-PC. But funny.

I feel like I have learned a lot about gov docs overall, especially searching the databases. Also, answering reference questions. I admit I didn't start out with a lot of enthusiasm for it, but towards the end, as I gained confidence in my skills I also gain enthusiasm for the job. Nobody likes to do what they're bad at, I guess.

I will kind of miss this place--it was one of the best library experiences I've had thus far. Well, the clock says 12:00, and I have a paper to turn in downstairs, so off I go into the next phase of life. Good luck, myself.