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“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

Dale Carnegie

Rare Book Virtual Exhibit Because we decided to have the books on display in the library in addition to the virtual exhibit, I created a slideshow that would be displayed on a monitor for staff. The slideshow focused on the author biographies and the display placard focused on the book. I figured it would be like two parts to a whole exhibit. When my boss and I went out to the lobby to discuss where we could set up the monitor, it was suggested that it would be cool to have an audio tour. 

I performed a quick Google on audio tours and found the website Your Audio Tour. I decided to go with this website because it doesn't require an app download, it's free, and your tour doesn't have to be public. 

Taking a lot of what was on the Famous Mathematicians webpage, I recorded a couple of authors as a demo. However, as I was recording myself I was reminded that many of these books are not in English. I don't like listening to my voice in the best of times, but hearing myself try to pronounce things in French and Latin was just pure torture. Luckily, Your Audio Tour has the capability to auto-generate voiceovers. They even have a handful of voices to choose from. 

We decided to go with the UK Male voice. I love British accents no matter what, but he almost doesn't seem fake at all. I was very impressed. I did have to go through and add random commas and rearrange sentences so that it would sound better. 

Primo Issues Back in September, I mentioned that one of the projects I had done was to catalog our IHS Engineering Workbench standards so that staff would be able to search them in Primo. We'd been having some issues with them not showing up in Primo. There were errors when harvesting. Last week my boss duplicated one but input the information based on another electronic resource template that we know show up in Primo. Well, hers ended up working so I took a look at what showed up and what didn't and made some changes to a few records inputting the changes I made into the 500 field. On Monday, we'll be able to see which, if any, ended up getting harvested correctly.