New Job!

Earlier this week I interviewed for a new job, and yesterday I found out that I got it! I will be working as a Library Associate in the library at the Leo Baeck Institute which is a research center for German Jewish history. The gig is only part time, so I will be working there in addition to my current job in the admissions office. I'll be cutting my internship at the Met down to a half a day, but I am in for a very busy summer! It feels really great to actually be paid for using my degree!

Costume Institute

Michelle went home today and we had a really great time. I will write more about her visit after she gets her pictures up.

Today was very exciting because I have been transferred libraries at the Met. My intern friend Anthony and I have been moved to the Costume Institute Library and today was my first day. Yes, it really is as cool as it sounds. Today I spent the day measuring binders containing sketches from the house of Mainbocher from the 40s, 50s, and 60s (see example below). I believe that I will immensely enjoy this opportunity!

Lunch Break

My internship is going great. This week was the first week where I spent the whole day at the Watson and didn't do any off-site processing. Instead, I was taught some new skills including labeling new books (slightly harder than it sounds) and reclassification. Learning how to reclassify was really cool because it tied together a lot of concepts that I've been learning about in my cataloging class.

This week I did some shopping and art-gazing while I was on my lunch break. I went to go check out the Victorian Photocollage exhibit and the Rodin sculptures.

Cupid & Psyche by Rodin

New Internship

Oh dear, I afraid I'm already falling behind in blogging. I knew there was I reason I quit the last one...


But in other news, I interviewed for and got an internship today! Where at, you ask? I will be interning at The Watson Research Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art! God, I love NY.

I did not realize that the Met has 20 libraries within its walls. Most of them are small collections within a curatorial department, but some of them are bigger like the Nolan Library which has educational materials for the public, particularly teachers. The libraries recently went under a "realignment" project which now puts the Watson at the hub of all 20 libraries. My internship will allow me to work with many of these libraries doing a variety of tasks including: paging materials, working on a mass inventory project (which details working with over 70,000 materials, just a mere 10% of the Watson's collection), doing some reference work in the Nolan and Watson, along with some other tasks. I will be interning there 10 hours a week, probably the mornings of the days I have classes.



I am super stoked!