In the week beginning February 23rd I helped in the organisation of cover images for various books that were being shown on the Bloodaxe Archive website. This work involved helping find the correlating cover images for works that were missing their cover images. This involved searching through a file of cover images making a spreadsheet attaching the id of each work to a filename. For example:
ID Filename
"BXB/1/1/GAF/1": BXB821-LORSEL-01.jpg
Although this seemed like it was a simple task, the actual carrying out of the task was more time consuming than I anticipated, as some filenames (cover images) were easier to find than others, and I had to check through all of the cover images thoroughly in order to sure that I had not missed any cover image out and that ones that I could not find were truly not in the system. This taught me that whilst you may anticipate work tasks to take you a certain amount of time to complete, you should always be prepared for certain tasks to take longer than you thought you would, with this being important in a job where you have to perform multiple tasks all the time.
This work was also useful in helping me with my communication and teamwork skills. This is because I divided the task between myself and my two fellow placement people, Hetty Touquet and Jodi Waterfield. This ensured that we roughly had the same amount of cover images to look for and that the task could be completed efficiently and thoroughly checked.
I also continued with the organisation of archive photos in this week, which further reinforced my idea that I would be happy with work in the future that involved me undertaking quite methodical tasks.
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