Multilingual cataloging day: Hungarian and Chinese! Non-roman-alphabet-having languages are the worst! I can't even recognize any of the letters. All of the Asian language items do at least have some text in English—usually the part I need, the institution name—but the Library of Congress prefers a romanized/phonetic spelling of the native language. Thus, NOT "Taipei Fine Arts Museum" but rather "Taibei shi li mei shu guan." I can't help but wonder if this is productive, in terms of providing access for users...
Hours worked: 9-3pm.
Records created: 17.
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