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The boys had dentist appointments this morning and they all passed free and clear: no cavities!! Yay!

But...the dentist is concerned about the way Petey's molar is growing in and how it might prematurely push out his spacer. So naturally we have to go back and try and get this all taken care of before our insurance runs out at the end of the month. Honestly, it's like he has dollar signs engraved on his teeth. Sure, no cavities, yet he still needs more work done. Gah.

Had an email from the LOC this morning to iron out more details about the internship. I love getting emails from them, it makes me feel like such a fan girl. I wonder if I'll still feel the same sense of awe after I've spent the summer there?

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Today I received a job description the work I'll be doing this summer at the LOC:

The Asian Division has a handwritten card index in a clear hand of a collection of 466 manuscripts in Sanskrit and other Indo-Aryan languages, prepared by the vendor in the 1940s. This index…essentially provides the descriptive cataloging information of each manuscript along with a small amount of subject information. [Tina] will convert as many of the cards as possible during her internship into online MARC records to be proofread by Dr. T. The records will ultimately be finalized by the Southeast Asia/South Asia cataloging team. Since there is heavy use of diacritics in languages that differ from the diacritics rendered for the major European languages, [Tina] will receive initial instruction by cataloging staff on how the diacritics should be input. If the entire index is completed during her tenure, she may create MARC records for some manuscripts not in this collection from worksheets prepared by scholar volunteers, or she may add uniform titles or subject headings under Dr. T’s supervision.

And--if like me--you need the definition of diacritics:

A mark, such as the cedilla of façade or the acute accent of resumé, added to a letter to indicate a special phonetic value or distinguish words that are otherwise graphically identical.