OPPONENT (Cataloging)
I've reached my goal, and finished my journey through the world of competitions. As usual and expected, if you are not prepared to fund a competition, do not expect miracles.
all started on November 15 in Madrid at the National Library, where I went for the second year of the opposition consisted of 5 exercises, you had to categorize two monographs, a journal, a sound recording, a video.
When you enter, you begin to know the most because they had already seen in the previous test, all arriving with suitcases, but do not wear clothes, what they wear is: the CDU, Marc format (two volumes), catalocaciĆ³n rules and list of subject headings.
enter for examination in a huge room, very well docorada with frescoes on the walls and ceiling, and rows of tables (desks) where we are placed as we are passing. To perform the test will give a number of copies of each of the specimens to be cataloged, with the leaves needed to make a catalog, but one thing happens, there are details like the number of pages, dimensions, and other similar data that are not in the copies, so at the center table of the room is a copy of each of the documents to catalog.
This is new, not what I expected, because there is only one copy of each document, originating queue to view the original qu and is at the center table. This is wasting time and not left to lose this very time, you have 3 hours to catalog all, ie just over half an hour for each document. And I can assure you that since they have been this year to catalog the documents, do not spare no time, indeed, you are missing, leaving me to hear the phrase that was, "I have not had time to finish", and you know what that means, that next year we are there again.
To enter marc format codes (because we have cataloged in Marc), give you a template for every document cataloged, with more or less structured code, so you use the boxes that you think necessary.
But everything ended on 3 December, where the official communication, only the names of those approved, and mine is not.
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