habitually probing generalist

I hope that I’m not jinxing myself as I only have email confirmation at the moment, but congrats are in order.

I am now the newest Serials Cataloging GA at the UIUC University Library! Yippee! I am so excited.

We have a big backlog of Western European journals, especially in German and French. I’ll be working on those, in particular, with a fair amount of original cataloging, and we are also ensuring we have complete bib records for all of the journal runs being moved to remote storage. Those will be my primary tasks as I understand it from the interview.

Did I mention how excited I am? Training starts on Monday. It’s a 25% GA-ship so I’ll work there 10 hours/week. I’ll also keep working for ITD in GSLIS for 10 hours/week. I have to let them know on Monday whether I prefer an assistantship or hourly and for how many months. I am excited that I don’t have to abandon such a great patron base (distance ed LIS students and instructors) cold; they have been wonderful to work with the past 2 years. I look forward to getting to know the newest crop; some of whom I met at Bootcamp over the summer, of course.

Some days, life is sweet!