Metadata zombie
I spent the day massaging metadata in the repository, and writing up a FAQ in hopes of doing less metadata-massaging in the future.
I am forcibly reminded why I did not go into cataloguing. This stuff is eating my brain, and I’m nowhere near done yet. (Finished basic author cleanup, though when I have round tuits I’m going to do authority searches on the list. Wading through subjects.) And? The Library of Congress’s authority search runs on sessions, lets me know every single time I’ve timed out, and is all clicky-clicky and unclear with the authorized and non-authorized headings. I hate that.
On the plus side, though, I seem to have landed my first invitation to speak professionally. (Um, in my new profession. I have a couple-three invitations to my credit from my conversion-peasant days.) Because I’m paranoid about announcing these things until they are firmly nailed down, no details at present—but I’m excited!