All Library'd out
Aug. 30th, 2005 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theyellowhobbitSue me for the homestarrunnerism in my title.
So Zelig [who has "Zelig'd" us with many belongings since he and his wife have moved out of Philadelphia] shot Reuven and I an e-mail yesterday asking if there were any undergrads who wanted to do a small research job for him, which will be paid 12$ an hour. I decided since I still have a week left before classes start, I could take the job myself.
Today I was introduced to JANES, which is the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies section of the Library, room 401. It has a lot of Jewish books. All I had to do was to find the articles he had listed and look up what exact pages they were on, and fix if he had any other publishing information down incorrectly. Pretty easy, right?
Well for the most part it was [though there were a bunch of books in German, a few in French, and one in Hebrew, but I managed] except that he had a few call numbers listed incorrectly. So I'm more than halfway done [22 out of 29] having spent 2 hours on this. He expected the whole thing to take 4 hours. I also have to trek out to the Center for Judaic Studies on 4th street and walnut, which will happen on Thursday, since I have an appointment on 18th and walnut, and I'm biking there anyways so what's another 14 blocks? I also have to stop at the Anthropology Museum [monge-land!] so I can do that tomorrow after I go to student health at 9:30 am.
One book was, sadly, missing from the collection, so I'm not sure what to do about that. But the plus side is that I saw the moveable stacks in the west wing of the 4th floor, which are pretty darn cool. You press a bunch of buttons and they move so that the aisle you want to go down is open. This conserves space. I just wouldn't want to get stuck in one of those, since I doubt they have a safety mechanism.
I made 24$ today! Yay!
So Zelig [who has "Zelig'd" us with many belongings since he and his wife have moved out of Philadelphia] shot Reuven and I an e-mail yesterday asking if there were any undergrads who wanted to do a small research job for him, which will be paid 12$ an hour. I decided since I still have a week left before classes start, I could take the job myself.
Today I was introduced to JANES, which is the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies section of the Library, room 401. It has a lot of Jewish books. All I had to do was to find the articles he had listed and look up what exact pages they were on, and fix if he had any other publishing information down incorrectly. Pretty easy, right?
Well for the most part it was [though there were a bunch of books in German, a few in French, and one in Hebrew, but I managed] except that he had a few call numbers listed incorrectly. So I'm more than halfway done [22 out of 29] having spent 2 hours on this. He expected the whole thing to take 4 hours. I also have to trek out to the Center for Judaic Studies on 4th street and walnut, which will happen on Thursday, since I have an appointment on 18th and walnut, and I'm biking there anyways so what's another 14 blocks? I also have to stop at the Anthropology Museum [monge-land!] so I can do that tomorrow after I go to student health at 9:30 am.
One book was, sadly, missing from the collection, so I'm not sure what to do about that. But the plus side is that I saw the moveable stacks in the west wing of the 4th floor, which are pretty darn cool. You press a bunch of buttons and they move so that the aisle you want to go down is open. This conserves space. I just wouldn't want to get stuck in one of those, since I doubt they have a safety mechanism.
I made 24$ today! Yay!
