The Closing of Summer

Reference Interns and the Boss Lady

Today we had the final get together at my boss's house.  I baked peanut butter nutella cookies, and we all just.. relaxed.  The calm before the storm, so to speak.  Tomorrow is Les Preludes.  Then I am volunteering to work for just four hours the next day to collect last minute returns.  My partner is leaving tomorrow.  My roommate is leaving tomorrow.

It's been a crazy learning experience behind here.  It can be overwhelming to eat, sleep and breath a work environment, even if it's only for six weeks.  But I have learned more about librarianship, my work style, and my people skills in those six weeks than I have in the past year.

My next post will outline more eloquently what I have learned, but I have to say, even though my pay only equaled my plane ticket cost -- this was entirely worth the cost, the distance, and the postponement of my graduation.  I am so much better equipped to be a librarian NOW than I was at the start of this summer.

I would definitely recommend this internship location to other librarians in training.  There are opportunities in academic librarianship, archives, and music librarianship.  Northern Michigan, you've done a lot more for me than I ever thought.

Keep calm and cherry on, as Traverse City (famous for cherries) would say.  And so I shall.  Back to Bloomington soon to wrap things up, and then it's onto the next big thing.

Two more days.