Shift #55 (1 hr 15 min) - Quarter 4 Intro Meeting Recording

Shift #55 - Quarter 4 Intro Meeting Recording

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 | 8:30-9:45 pm CST/9:30-10:45 pm EST (1 hr 15 min)

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Michelle Hurt, student/intern

Jennifer Gonzalez, practicum supervisor

This is a screenshot of my supervisor Jennifer for the recording of our meeting. Even though she wasn't available this week for a live meeting, she made sure we had all the information we needed. 

My internship supervisor Jennifer was at the annual AALL conference this week (the American Association of Law Libraries) so instead of doing a live meeting with our group, she made a recording for our quarterly introduction meeting. This was for week 4, I can't believe we're nearing the end! The video started with Jennifer referring back to the summer enrichment schedule, that there were no changes to the schedule compared to the last quarter. She highlighted the events this week, including the Internship and Fellowship Programs (IFP) webinar on the Congressional Research Service and the law library. We also have a web recording about images and alt text that we can apply to our blog posts and beyond our internship. Week eleven includes individual meetings with Jennifer should we need them, a webinar on campaign codes, data visualization and quantitative data, and an opportunity to view a recorded webinar of our choosing. However, the biggest event during this particular week is the alumni panel which will include a half hour goodbye celebration (where we'll get three minutes to talk about our current school journey and 1-2 things about our blog project) with various Library of Congress employees in attendance and then the last hour will be an alumni panel speaking with us about our experiences. The final week is pretty sparse, with more optional individual appointments with Jennifer if needed and a webinar on tracing legal regulations. 

Jennifer also talked to us about the fall remote metadata program, which consists of a minimum of 10 hours a week for 100 hours total over 10 weeks. It is different from this summer's creative digital projects program and it is mainly asynchronous, individual work. For fall interns, they will help collections to be more discoverable; the focus is on historical documents being transcribed and to correct errors. Some interns may get to use HTML but it will be mainly transcription work. Though different, all interns will still get to attend IFP webinars if they so choose, although almost all the webinars offered in the fall will be the same as what was offered this summer. I've already registered to be an intern again (especially since returning interns get accepted immediately)!

Lastly, Jennifer talked about our blog post sources, with a few tips. For example, parenthetical citations are not required unless you really need them. We also do not need a sources list; it is not necessary. It might be necessary if we're working in something that has lots of extra sources in Law Library collections. It also might be needed if we're working on regulations but really, we shouldn't worry about. Jennifer also talked to us about submitting our final blog assignment and to make sure we read the submission instructions file (includes a metadata form we need to fill out. In addition, she encouraged us beyond our internship time to remain interested in the Law Library and submit blog posts for consideration! I will have to think about.