20 Hours to Go

Twenty hours of internship work to go - the end is in sight! As much as I enjoyed this internship, I will be happy when the semester is over. I have just been adding content to my LibGuides about the Caldecott illustrators, poring over arts and crafts sites and blogs, looking for appropriate projects. I've also been writing mini-biographies about some of the more interesting illustrators. I have hardly communicated with my site supervisor at all in the last few weeks, but I think I'm doing okay - I'm sure she would let me know otherwise, since she can see everything I add to the LibGuides. It just seems weird; like I said in last week's discussion, I am more of a team player and I like a lot of input and feedback from co-workers. Doing so much work on my own has been really strange for me. I just have to trust that my supervisor will let me know if and when I screw up!

Done with E-port

Argh! I almost forgot about my blog post this week! I finished my e-portfolio on Tuesday, so I can now concentrate on just internship stuff. I had it worked out that if I continue doing 8 hours a week, I will finish right on time. But I am going to try to do more hours this week and next so I can finish sooner. I don't have much to say about the internship because I am just adding more and more content to the LibGuides about illustrators.

I have to admit, these last few weeks have been really difficult for my internship. I am pregnant, and my morning sickness was so bad - just looking at a computer screen with those tiny words swimming around the screen made me really sick. I had to force myself to do my work, using every trick and piece of advice I could find (Eat Saltines! Work lying down! etc.). But I got through it; my morning sickness has pretty much passed, thank goodness.

Slowing down

All of my internship hours now are pretty much focused on adding information about the Caldecott-winning illustrators, and I feel I am getting slower all the time. This is because I did all the interesting and prolific illustrators first, and now I am getting down to the more obscure ones. There is surprisingly little information available on some of these people, especially the older illustrators. But I am finding out some fun facts - one illustrator started out drawing pictures for Dungeons & Dragons books (Tony DiTerlizzi), while another one was married to Elliott Ness, from The Untouchables (Evaline Ness). Some of the women who won Caldecotts back in the day led really inspiring lives - children's book publishing seems like it was a rather accepting of women in a time when most everything was dominated by men. Anyway, these little historical tidbits I'm picking up are making up for the difficulties I'm having in finding good material.