spring 2012 MLS internship

Melissa VT helped me with the OCLC Connexion Client. 

I started with organizing the remaining work on the J. R. Paul box. Searched 18th Cent. duplicates in locked stacks. 18th Cent. is shelved in a separate room outfitted with compact shelving that also houses 17th Cent., as well as a section of works about and by medical authors; plus an oversize and a mini section (not strictly miniature as some books in this section are over 10 cm). Then I imported my first OCLC record for a non-duplicate J.R. donation and made a record about as complete as I can at this point:

Detmold, W. (1840). An essay on club foot: and some analogous diseases. New York: George Adlard. 

Find of the week? month? 1662 copy of John Graunt’s Bills of Mortality.  

Melissa VT showed me how to transfer EPH items to MED. Item records change perm location to med or medhs; type: circ. Then set MFHD $b and add $x Transferred from eph; med/jb767 12/2011. Last, erase and correct pencilled-in call number and insert note ‘relabel’. To be given to students to prep.

Met briefly with Melissa Grafe about plans. Will have a finding aid project for the next month or so, then early spring help with the Shakespeare exhibit - I'll be setting up the digital version of the exhibit using Omeka! She also encouraged me to apply to jobs I see opening up this spring.

From the locked collection, we picked a pamphlet box labelled ‘insanity’ and also stumbled upon two unaccessioned EPH boxes donated from former Yale Medical School professor Dr. J.R. Paul’s private collection. The contents were mostly 18th-20th cent. books, except for one vinyl record and two reels of magnetic tape containing lecture recordings, plus a 17th century find of the day (Week? Month?). I started with searching the J.R. Paul donations in Orbis to identify duplicates. Items receive a note for either ‘Not in Orbis’ or ‘Duplicate (with Orbis call number)’ 

Having found items not in Yale collections, this project quickly evolved into my also searching OCLC for records ; Melissa G walked me through picking the best available record and Melissa VT showed me how to copycat from OCLC Connexion to Orbis db.:
      Launch OCLC Connexion, F2 to log in; pull up record - F5 to Export-C. Switch to Voyager Cat; record>import>from new file>find OCLCimport folder. Save to db (click NO on pop-up).

Another one Yale needed was Report on the influenza epidemic of 1889-90

I was introduced to George (LSA) and Tom (rare cataloger) and Flo told me which Thai food cart is the best.