Thursday, July 24, 2008

Today was another fun and interesting day. I met Mary and Cindy and got a chance to spend some time with their department. Cindy is the Associate Director of Collection Development and Management. A work day for her may involve sitting at her computer and working on collection development tasks, having meetings, answering questions, helping at the reference desk, and monographic acquisitions. The things that she enjoys most about her job are working with colleagues and collection develpment parts and choosing books and electronic resourses to help students and faculty. She has always liked books and the public library when she was younger, so this seemed to be a good job for her. When I asked her what she thought her job would be like in ten years, she said that the collection would be more electronic and that maybe E books would set up a system or vendor that can load all the records instead of doing them manually one by one.

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