Generalization

LIS 181 internship at the UP Main Library engaged me to a lot of activities. In this semester, I experienced many things within my 150 hours of internship. I started my internship on August 17 and ended on October 5, although my homework in cataloging was not done until December 12. It was exhausting, but I gained a lot of experience. I learned a lot from the prerequisite courses such as cataloging, indexing, etc.

I praised the hard work of the staff and the good flow of service. However, I observed the long backlog of materials to be processed especially in the Serials Section. I also noticed that some equipment were already obsolete especially in the Bindery Section. The unavailability of persons-in-charge is also a problem especially if only a few staff reported for work and student assistants and trainees are unavailable for work. Thus, the long service queue perpetuates the moniker University of Pila for our dear university. Truly, the UP Main Library system must make a room for improvements in its services to better serve its clientele.

LIS 181, which is the outside internship, will be a new journey for me as my graduation approaches.

That's all for this online journal. I hope to successfully finish another LIS 181 soon.

Homework

After finally finishing my 150 hours of internship, I still had one more requirement to fulfill and that is LIS 181: a homework in cataloging. I waited for a message from ma'am Annie regarding that until November. I even personally went to the Cataloging and Metadata Services Section to see her. Unfortunately, she was on personal leave at the time. Finally, on December 6, Brainard Linco and I met ma'am Annie for the homework. She oriented us on how to edit the catalog of an item. Then, she gave us a homework.

On December 12, after answering the homework, we went back there along with Czar Burgos, Miko Padulla, and Gillian Reyes to discuss the homework. Once finalized, I submitted the homework to ma'am Annie. That finally concludes my internship.