Browsing the collection

This past week was especially exciting as I've become better and better at searching through our collection. Not only am I getting pretty good at using Mirlyn, but I've figured out how to find things in the Map Library, which can be especially confusing. It was nice going to the Special Collections and even the Clements Library because they brought out the books for you, but sometimes you have no idea what you're going to find in them so I felt a little bit bad about having them search for all of these books.

I asked Karl to try and better explain how things are organized in the Map Library, and I'm glad I did this because I now have probably the most efficient way of finding "interesting" and "old" maps within our collection. Generally, maps of France were put in the same drawers, and their call number usually includes the date of their creation. I can open a drawer of maps and efficiently look at all the maps of France that predate the 1900's, which is a lot of maps to look through, but it's a lot of fun! I never know what I'm going to see when I open up a folder, and it's pretty exciting to see the result.

Supposedly Karl talked to some of the professors last week about the exhibit, and I'm supposed to meet with some professors tomorrow. I'm pretty optimistic about getting some real work done of the exhibit very soon!