I worked on a project in cataloging this week. I was entering Marc 505 contents fields to item records. By luck (I think) it was the Foreign Affairs Headline Series. My undergrad degree is in Government so it was really fun for me to see familiar authors and topics. It was also interesting because the dates were spread over a range from before WWII to the seventies. I was reminded how country name changes could dramatically affect search results.
The actual work was slow going at first but I picked up speed as I went along. At the beginning I was spending a lot of time looking at examples trying to decide to capitalize or not, how to treat certain punctuation, etc. As I filled in records I saw examples of how other parts of the record were done or situations I had already looked up and so I moved along faster.
7.5 + 7.5 =15 hours this week
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