not quite gainful employment

[aamcnamara]

So, ah, this is where I'll be working for the next year.

Let me highlight a few key points for you:
"...over 200 illustrated editions of the Divina commedia of Dante Aligheiri (1265-1321) representing artists from 1481 to the present. The artists range from anonymous engravers to well-known artists such as Salvador Dali, William Blake and Sandro Botticelli."

"The [juvenile books] collection now consists of over 1,600 volumes, spanning 1797-present."

"The [Renaissance Science] collection features a selection of important herbals and mathematical writings from ca. 1540 to ca. 1680."

As well as the college founder's papers, clippings related to alumns going back almost to the beginning of the college...

They have those shelves that move to store more books in a smaller amount of space. (They still have the hand-crank ones.) They have things that aren't really books, and things that aren't books at all, and books still cataloged under the Cutter classification system.

I think I'm going to like this job--no, scratch that. I am going to love this job.

Comments

[aedifica]

*is envious*

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

What intense coolness!!!

[mlt23.livejournal.com]

Very awesome. *is jealous*

I get to, uh, scan stuff?

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

Most of the other first-years here are required to work in dining services, so scanning stuff is at least a step up from that!

[aliseadae]

Envyenvyenvy.

Though I love my work study job, why is your school's library so /awesome/?

I need to go visit my library's archives sometime.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

Because we stole it from Hogwarts.

You should. Archives are neat places.

[hildebabble.livejournal.com]

An archivist! That's pretty cool.