stereotypical single woman

My brain is fried.

Today I turned in/took

1. a review on a book that I read approximately 30% of (although the review sounded pretty damn good if I do say so myself. After all, I do have a legacy to uphold. I am a City High alumni and no one has been trained to bullshit as well as we were.)
2. an inappropriately named group project on the National Libraries that was put together entirely by yours truly (because my lazy group mates are not fucking up my A in that class), and
3. a kick-me-in-the-ass-with-a-steel-toed-boot-that-also-has-rusty-barbed-wire-cleats exam on access points and authority records. And before you tell me that access points and authority control are no big deal, they’re just references/search terms, I would just like to show you the AACR2 manual.

 

(cat shown for scale and because he wouldn’t move his fat ass)
They have rules on how to list and assign bibliographic responsibility for EVERYTHING in ANY POSSIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE. Including how to list an author that has supposedly written something from beyond the grave.* So don’t tell me it’s not complicated, because it is big and heavy and I could do some real damage with it if provoked.

But before I celebrate the end of this ball-breaking week I have one more project to do before Saturday morning. Luckily it’s just a couple of basic handwritten webpages, which I will be able to pull out of my ass in just a few hours tomorrow. I’m going to go collapse right now with some wine and my latest Netflix DVD (Simpsons, season 10 disc 3 in case you were wondering.) Check back tomorrow and I’ll have another cat picture for you.

*in case you were wondering, the dead author does receive a main entry in the MARC 100 field on the authority record, however it is followed the phrase (spirit). So if Beethoven is credited with a piece written after his death the field would read

Beethoven, Ludwig von (spirit)

the medium would then only receive an added entry in a 700 field on the MARC record because they cannot claim responsibility for the creation of the intellectual content. So basically if a ghost visits you and uses your body as a vehicle to compose a world renowned piece of music or novel you need to lie and say you did it if you want to be the main access point for the work according to 2nd version of Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. Damn, it’s time for another drink.