The Log, to date

I should have been writing up what I’m doing each day at my internship all along. Instead, I’m just making daily notes to keep up with the log. Here is what we have so far. I’ll try to write up a more detailed account of each type of activity in the next week or so . I am nearing the halfway point of the needed hours! How is that possible?

Date	Actual hours	total hours	activities
Wednesday, May 6, 2015	5.5	71.25	9:30-11, worked on withdrawals. 11-12, met with Ray about scheduling, 12-12:15 ate lunch, 12:15-1:15 focus group, 1:15-3:00 finished withdrawals
Thursday, May 7, 2015	2.5		12-2:30, coverage of front desk, general circulation duties. Answered one reference question for Director of MACM program regarding online periodical search.
Friday, May 8, 2015	2.5		9:30-12, Prepared periodicals for shipment to bindery.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015	5.25		9:30-10, practice with seminary choir. 10-11:15 Eucharist service, sang with choir. 11:20-12:30 Met with Ray about LibGuide building, discussed future meetings and how we will manage this project between schedules of myself and part-time emplyees who don’t cross paths much 12:30-1 lunch. 1-2:45, Pre-class introduction and then attended Church History II class taught by Dr. Huber. Enjoyed lecture about the church in North America from the mid-19th century through the early 21st century.
Thursday, May 14, 2015	5		9:30-10 Met with Ray, discussed plan for the day and future projects. 10-10:30 Chapel service. 10:40-12:00 Attended New Testament II class taught by Dr. Walter Taylor. Interesting lecture about the formation of the canon and the book of Revelation. Obtained full set of class docuements and lecture notes from Dr. Taylor. May be useful in thinking about library services necessary for these students. 12-12:30 lunch. 12:30-2:30 Met with Aija to determine plan for future book repair projects. Checked catalog status for those books determined to be in need of repair or rebinding. Pulled several books from reference for repair, primarily respining.
Friday, May 15, 2015	5		9:30-10:45 Met with Ray and then began gathering materials by speakers committed for the conference in June regarding peace in the Mid East. 10:45-12:00 Met with Carla and Ray to begin getting up to speed on LibGuide building. Got account set up, poked around, discussed plans for guides Ray would like to see built and timelines for such. 12:12:30 lunch. 12:30-2:30 Met with Ray and Kailee regarding LibGuides. Kailee is the resident expert on building these, and offered excellent advice. Spent some time poking around the system and also looking at other guides that might be “borrowed” or built upon to get what we want completed.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015	5		9:30-12 Withdrawals – removed books from OPAL and OCLC catalogs. 12-12:20 lunch 12:20-2:30 respined on volume, repaired several minor spine tears with book tape.
Thursday, May 21, 2015	5		9:30-12 Experimented with setting up a LibGuide, gathering experience. Successfully brought in RSS feeds for Twitter and my blog 12-1:45 Staff meeting
Friday, May 22, 2015	5		9:30-11:30 Met with Ray to determine point persons for each day of the rest of internship. Plans are to get time with Kathy on periodicals and the ejournal systems, Joy and acquisitions, and Aija for cataloging, as well as some time spent working on the shelf read of the second floor. 11:30-12:30 Learned Inter-Library Loan system 12:30-2:30 Book repairs, respined three books
Wednesday, May 27, 2015	5		9:30-12 Met with Ray and Carla and discussed the webpage for Hamma Library, possible changes, and motivations for these changes. Much content to be moved to LibGuides as they are built over the next few weeks/months. 12-12:30 Lunch 12:30-2:30 met with Ray and Kailee to discuss webpage changes decided with Carla. Kailee being the one who can actually edit the webpage, collaborated on look of the page.
Friday, May 29, 2015	5		9:30-12/12:30-2:30 withdrew 95 volumes from OPAL and OCLC catalogs
Monday, June 1, 2015	5		9:30-11 researched and withdrew some old volumes that had been gifted but never fully cataloged and found in storage1, 11-2:30 withdrew 95 Long Playing albums weeded from the collection.
Wednesday, June 3, 2015	5		9:30-11:30 checked gift books for holdings in TLS and OPAL 11:30-12 lunch, 12:00-2:30 worked with Aija (cataloger) to catalog gift books
Friday, June 5, 2015	6		9:30-12:30 cataloged three more volumes unsupervised, processed ILL requests including one Article Exchange request for copies, and four books sent out. 1:00-3:30 Attended Rev. Emlyn Ott’s basic course on Healthy Congregations.
Monday, June 8, 2015	4.5		9:30-10 ILL requests and maintenance 10-11 Shelf read BS1-BS193 11-12:30 Worked with Aija to clean up cataloging attempts from Friday. 12:30-1, lunch, 1-2 :Worked with Aija to learn to import a record from OCLC to Sierra (OPAL) for an item that was not previously held in OPAL.