Shift #58 - Small Group Mtg, Campaign Codes & Editing
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 | 11:30 am-1:30 pm CST/12:30-2:30 pm EST (2 hrs)
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Michelle Hurt, student/intern
Jennifer Gonzalez, practicum supervisor
This is a screenshot of my cohort and our last meeting. I hope to keep in touch with some of the people via LinkedIn, at least!
This shift consisted of several things - my last small group cohort meeting, a webinar on campaign codes, and editing more of blog post. I am a sentimental person and was a little sad that it was my last cohort meeting. We were asked by Judy, our cohort leader, to reflect upon our internship experience. Most everyone in my cohort were younger students so they're in a different stage of life that I'm in; it was good to hear what they had to say. For myself, I shared that the internship was refreshing as a nontraditional graduate student (I'm in my early 40s with two children!). I also talked about how writing the blog posts was a good break from academic writing. Both have included research but the Library of Congress is all about plain language, which I really appreciate! I also spoke about how I'm not sure yet where my career path will take me after the internship was done. Right now, with my full-time job, I'm getting a chance to do project management and there is a possibility to shift away from administrative work to programmatic work and become a subject matter expert.
For the campaign codes webinar, we had a Law Library staffer, Bailey DeSimone, talk about what these are. Bailey creates data visualization and infographics for multinational legal reports, data analytics and internal report metrics, and for publications like blog posts and story maps. She also does graphic design as needed. Campaign codes are unique tags that track patron engagement. An example of this is ?loclr=bloglaw. They are useful when observing the most popular pages and publications. We learned that metrics tracking can indicate the average length of page visits and how often linked resources are clicked by patrons. Campaign codes also help to figure out peak engagement and correlating factors. For our blog posts, we are supposed to add the campaign code to any Library of Congress URL that we have in our blog post. Without the campaign code, a URL would look like this:
https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/law-library-of-congress/about-this-research-center/
But, with the campaign code, the link is trackable and looks like this:
https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/law-library-of-congress/about-this-research-center/?loclr=bloglaw
Any time someone clicks on a link with a campaign code, the Law Library can track engagement from the public.
After the webinar, I turned back to some more writing but mainly editing. I have a lot of information I want to include about Charles Gibbs, especially a few characters on the periphery of his pirate journey but I worked on condensing. I had to really figure out what to include when Gibbs and his fellow pirates took over the ship (and ended up killing several people!).
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