Today's meeting was scheduled with Luiz and Dianne, who head the Electronic Resources. Luiz teaches at UCLA and I know that he always comes in late, so I decided to nip things in the bud and went to see Dianne first thing in the morning to see how they wanted to proceed. Dianne said that they'd discussed it, and since Luiz wanted to meet with me first, it would be better if I continued with y cataloging project until he came to "get" me. This was fine, since I was still working on the United States code congressional and administrative news, and had the American law reports annotated, second series (Digest), American law reports annotated, second series. Later case service, the Supreme Court reporter (you need to click view additional copies to see my work. Vols. 1-59 never made it up to TS), and the Federal energy guidelines (FERC Reports) waiting. I wanted to complete my project.
Luiz came in around 10:30 AM, and said he was ready for me. He wanted to straighten some things up and he'd come back and get me in 5 minutes. 5 minutes turned to well over an hour. When he came back, he asked when I usually went to lunch, which was at 12PM. Since it was almost lunch time, we decided to just meet up after lunch (anyone surprised?). While waiting for Luiz and Dianne, I did manage to finish updating the records of all the law books, and was glad I was able to complete my final project for Helen. Plus, I got a chance to pass out the thank you chocolates I'd made for the people who spent the day with me. The TS Chair, M. Helfer got a chocolate bouquet of daisies and a butterfly, Gina got a bouquet with a chocolate frog and tulips, Helen got a bouquet of white daisies, and everyone else got a white or dark chocolate pansy. It was a nice way to say thank you and good-bye.
After lunch, I went to my cubicle to check my mail before heading over to Luiz's office. To my surprise, Luiz walked in with one of the science bibliographers, and invited me into his office. As head of electronic resources, Luiz has a lot of work to do. He discussed a lot of things, and much of it was overwhleming, considering it was my last day. We discussed the kinds of electronic resources (e-books, databases, journals), Open URL, and ONIX. He stressed the importance of learning about metadata, and showed me a presentation he'd made that succinctly decsribed electronic resources and their importance in libraries. I must admit most of it didn't sink in, cause it was so theoretical. When I met with Dianne, she showed me more constructive things. Without Dianne, no one will have access to all the e-resources the library pays for. For example, with databases and journal aggregators, Dianne has to ensure an item is subscribed and paid for. She then activates the account, sets parameters such as specific journal titles and dates, and sets up the Find(Get) Link, which will connect the user to the article. If she misses a step, or the publisher changes something, the information can't be found. Becasue there are so many titles, it is impossible for one person to keep up with everything, so she relies on other librarians and the patrons to let her know when there's a dead link. While this seemed complicated, I realized it wasn't once Dianne "did" one. You just need to remember the steps.
There wasn't much else for her to show me, and we chatted for a while. The main topic of the day were the campus-wide furloughs that were being instigated as part of budget cuts. The furloughs are basically unpaid vacation days, and equal a 10% salary cut. While everyone was pessimistic, Dianne chose to look at the bright side, and use the days to get to things and run errands she wouldn't have time for otherwise. Oh well...
I still had a little over an hour until my internship came to an end, so I took up Christina's offer to help her find more open source science journals. Christina is one of the science bibliographer, and she asked me to cross-reference the open source journals available through the Directory of Open Access Journals with the ones already in the library OPAC. She was working towards finding more resources for sustainability, and I was able to find multiple websites for environmental organizations, and universities. Wikipedia also had a good article.
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