I can't believe that I almost failed a subject. I am such a procrastinator I am probably typing this instead of finishing my assignment!!! This teacher librarian course is opening my eyes wider than they have ever been before. Not only do TLs require teaching skills and ICT skills, they also have to be adept at managing a library. At the moment I am learning how to create catalogue records for library items. I thought this would be pretty simple. Just enter the Dewey no's and SCIS does the rest. Not so, there are a great many rules that are applied to cataloguing. There are also punctuation requirements, just like references. I have found a new respect for the cataloguers at SCIS.
During my first term as temp. TL I couldn't understand why we had to send books to SCIS in Brisbane for cataloguing. Now I understand that you have to have all the required information before applying the correct rules as per AACR2. It would be great if I could process those books myself without having to send them away. ( Tell me I'm dreaming).
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