ABCs of Military Sources

I attended a presentation on "The ABCs of Military Sources" last night which was held in conjunction with the DTIC conference that is going on this week. It was a very useful and fast paced introduction to a large variety of military sources, including military universities, military archives and historical documents, and miltary publications available online. (That's not technically part of my internship)

Today I worked on fixing a problem we have with many of our periodicals in Serials Solutions showing a title that begins with a "The." Unlike the catalog which automatically remove initial articles, Serials Solutions keeps them and lists all of those titles under T. This makes it difficult to find the item unless you search with the "The" which we usually tell people not to do. So the solution to the Serials Solutions problem was to go in and edit each title. This was only a problem for those titles which were unique to MCU and which had been entered with a "The" I did keep three "The" titles because I checked on the print copy and the "The" was there. One example was "The old schoolhouse."

Because Serials Solutions updates my edits overnight, I will not be able to test today's work until my next internship day on Thursday.