Filipiniana Section: Typewriter and Shelf Reading

Here we go again with the typewriter.

But this time I got the proper orientation on how to use the typewriter. One of my final task for my final section in my OJT was to typewrite the gifted books with the proper book card color. The book card provided was yellow and computerized; the librarian told me that I must be red orange since it has only one copy and should only be for room use.

I had a lot of errors since one minor mistake would be detrimental.

My mistakes (LOL!)

I also did shelf reading of all the gifted given to the Filipininana Section and segregated those which have not yet Bibliograph Searched and did those as well.

After Shelf Reading

Before Shelf Reading

I enjoyed the typewriter. :D

Filipiniana Section: Paging and Shelving

My entire work in the Filipiniana Section was basically paging and shelving and shelving and paging.

I realized that this is the work that I would expect a librarian would do.

Basically the student will write the information about the book -- call number, author, book title and their name, student number, and college-- on a paper provided on the reference desk

After which the librarian will go to the shelves and look for the book.

If the book is available and have a yellow card, then the student can read it and borrow it. If the book has an red orange one then it is only for room-use and cannot be borrowed** Reserchers.

Upon giving the book to the student, the librarian must ask for the students' ID and clip it together with the paper and the librarian will put it in the organizer container (I don't know what it is called HAHA!)

If the students want to borrow the book then they can give it to the librarian and the student must fill up the necessary detailed in the book card and the librarian will scan it and record it and there you go the student can borrow the book.

If the student does not want to borrow it then they can give the book back to the librarian and the librarian will give the ID back to the respective student and the book will be put into the "Shelving Cart"

Opposite to Paging, where the librarian will take out the book. Shelving is returning the book to its rightful place on the shelves.

Shelving Rack

***Paging and Shelving are a bit tedious because there are a lot of students requesting and only a few librarians are available and the shelf markers are confusing since they told me that its out dated. They could have updated it sometime before so that it won't be a hassle.

The container

Filipiniana Section: Bibligraphic Search, Control Desk, Shelving and Shelf Reading

Two words I would like to describe my fifth and final leg of the race.  On my first day of my last section, I was adamant to finish within a week since a lot of my classmates are already done with their OJT.

Initially I was supposed to start my OJT on Saturday but the head librarian of the Filipiniana Section wasn’t there and the staff told me to start my day on Monday.

Back to my first day. I did was bibliographic searching, shelving, and control desk.

    

Bibliographic Searching is just looking at the Ilib website and looking at the status of the gifted book and see whether it is “In Process” or “On Shelf” on the FI section only (if the other copy of the same book is found other where such as the Social Science Section, then we will disregard it and only see the Fi Section only). If its “In Process” then I will mark a book at 0 FI. If the book has more than one copy or is a volume or series and all of them are 0 FI then I will mark it as 0 FI and below it the number of copies and/or volumes included. If the book has “On Shelf” then it means that the Fi Section has a copy and I will mark the book as check Fi. There are some books that are not gifts given so I have to separate them and let the librarian do another process that I was not assigned.

I haven’t counted how many I have done since the Fi Section were lacking personnel and I was on-the-clock meaning every hour I will change routines with other staffs.

After an hour, I was ordered to do shelving and paging but mostly all I did was shelving. I got dizzy since the Filipiniana Section isn't air conditioned and the dust. So after a while I rested and stood near the electric fan and then back again. 

On my last hour of the day, I did controlling which is basically the table near the door where the security scanner is. 


All I have to do is count the number of students coming in the section, checking if they are enrolled this semester and when students leave the section, I have to check their bags and see that they didn't hide any book in the collection. I also did shelf reading for a while. Shelf reading is just checking if the book/s are on their proper shelves and if not then I must find their proper place. Organization and all.