Interesting week. Classes were good. I learned about preservation methods of non paper media like records and CD's. I have come to the conclusion that things like records and books from earlier than the 1800's actually last longer than things from recent years. It's crazy. I made a corrugated clamshell for a book the other day from 1669. It was so cool. Books from as recently as 1990's are in our preservation department for repair and things like that last like a mofo.
Library school can be a big bowl of ridiculous sometimes, such as one of the classes I'm in right now. I swear, it's a catch all for the department. If you wanted to teach a book in your class and you didn't have the time, you throw it in this class. I don't really understand how it's useful in anyway. I just submitted a paper for it and I'm hoping for the best. I honestly don't know what to expect.
Anyway, today I went to the Music Library to get some books for a project I'm doing for Library and Archival Preservation, which is so far my favorite and most useful class as far as content. It's the least abstract too. The music library is so cool. I really want to do something with music archiving but I'm not sure exactly what. I'm hoping that I can get involved with something like that after I graduate. Anyway, I found some really cool books, not just on my topic but on other cool things like Patti Smith and Riot Grrl. There are entire books just on synthesizers and I saw one on the history of the double bass that I want to check out when I have more time. As much as I love libraries, I'm kind of discovering that there are way too many things I want to do. I honestly wanted to switch to something with music when I walked into the music building and heard people talking about scales and practicing the piano. I wish had time to do that. I miss playing piano. It's been years since I've done that and months since I've played guitar. I had to leave my guitar at home when I moved because there was only room for my ukulele. I've been trying to keep up with it since ukulele and guitar have a lot of similarities.
There are so many things I want to do: work in/for a museum, do archeology work, music archiving, work in a library. I really feel slightly lost. I've thought about switching to the independent librarian track, instead of Archives. The deadline for that is coming up soon. I'm a little tempted, honestly. I want to repair books which is what I'm learning at the Archives Preservation Center but I've kind of decided that I want to do something hands on like that. I really love working there and I like doing tangible things I can see, rather than organizing databases. I don't know. Either way, the archives classes are really interesting.
We had a badass discussion the other week in my Archives and Records Management class about what exactly is knowledge, data, information and records. There are such fine distinctions from what you originally think. It was such a cool discussion, even for 9:00 in the morning.
Anyway, hopefully more updates soon. I hope I'm not too boring. I feel like it sometimes.
Thanks for reading. <3
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