This is Irony, Right?
Nov. 23rd, 2008 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sadlikeknivesSo, Marvel doesn't want me.
I should've seen that one coming, but I live on hope. But, yeah, I have no special collections or archives experience, so it was a long shot.
HOWEVER, on the SAME DAY as Marvel sent me a 'thanks but no thanks' e-mail, I gave a presentation on special issues in cataloging comics in my cataloging class, and the professor, who is also our university's special collections cataloger, said when I was done, "I have a question: someone just donated their entire comics collection to us, would you like to come be my intern next semester and catalog them?" and I nearly exploded from squee and relief, because I didn't have a backup plan and I do kind of need an internship.
I went over Friday and looked at it; it's ten longboxes stuffed full of joy and nerdery. I couldn't pull out much because they were really jammed in there and they're not bagged, so I'm kind of scared of damaging them, but what I did see was, like, a lot of Silver Age DC (plus a random issue of Alpha Flight). I nearly had a nerdgasm. The lady who did the in-house inventory, which is bare-bones, title, issue, box number, said it's around 3500 issues. And everyone kept saying, "This is your project. Tell us what you need." (A metric ton of acid free bags, more longboxes, and a workspace large enough to unpack one of these things, I said. Done, they said.) I'm going to organize and catalog all of this and figure out if we can track down things to complete incomplete runs, and I was talking to the special programs coordinator about getting with the comic shop to promote the collection and Free Comic Book Day and...it's my project. It's a lot of work, and I'm kind of intimidated, and I'm really excited at the same time.
The ironic part of all this is, with this project to my credit, assuming it goes well, if I were graduating next December instead of in May, I would be the perfect candidate for the internship I just got rejected for. I could send my resume to Marvel with "HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?" scribbled across it. Ah, well. I get to nerd it up anyway.
I should've seen that one coming, but I live on hope. But, yeah, I have no special collections or archives experience, so it was a long shot.
HOWEVER, on the SAME DAY as Marvel sent me a 'thanks but no thanks' e-mail, I gave a presentation on special issues in cataloging comics in my cataloging class, and the professor, who is also our university's special collections cataloger, said when I was done, "I have a question: someone just donated their entire comics collection to us, would you like to come be my intern next semester and catalog them?" and I nearly exploded from squee and relief, because I didn't have a backup plan and I do kind of need an internship.
I went over Friday and looked at it; it's ten longboxes stuffed full of joy and nerdery. I couldn't pull out much because they were really jammed in there and they're not bagged, so I'm kind of scared of damaging them, but what I did see was, like, a lot of Silver Age DC (plus a random issue of Alpha Flight). I nearly had a nerdgasm. The lady who did the in-house inventory, which is bare-bones, title, issue, box number, said it's around 3500 issues. And everyone kept saying, "This is your project. Tell us what you need." (A metric ton of acid free bags, more longboxes, and a workspace large enough to unpack one of these things, I said. Done, they said.) I'm going to organize and catalog all of this and figure out if we can track down things to complete incomplete runs, and I was talking to the special programs coordinator about getting with the comic shop to promote the collection and Free Comic Book Day and...it's my project. It's a lot of work, and I'm kind of intimidated, and I'm really excited at the same time.
The ironic part of all this is, with this project to my credit, assuming it goes well, if I were graduating next December instead of in May, I would be the perfect candidate for the internship I just got rejected for. I could send my resume to Marvel with "HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?" scribbled across it. Ah, well. I get to nerd it up anyway.
