End of the line = On to new things

It is the end of my one-year internship as a Library Graduate Trainee at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. I literally remember it as if it was yesterday when I was led on a tour around the library and the herbarium by the previous graduate trainee, Marc Muller. Fast forward a year, I have spent two days doing the same thing. I am definitely excited for next year's trainees and coming back to Kew to see how they are getting on.

I have definitely grown as a person since being at Kew and achieved a long list of different things since being a Kew. From my projects:

• Completely retro-catalogued approx. 500 journals from Japan, China and South America and sections on Bryophytes and Ferns.
• Approximately 300 newly catalogued books and journals titles.
• Completed updating the master list in Excel for exchange partners.
• Completed updating the bookseller list.
• Completed my conservation and book-binding project to make my first ever journal.
• Completed the Kew Gardens at War project which has garnered 300+ people.
• Survived three shelf shifts for the Gardens Library, Studies Office, Diplomatic and Consular reports and pre-1867 journals.

From miscellaneous activities: 

• Being Treasurer of the Christmas Lunch.
• Scanning materials with the ever troublesome flatbed scanner
• Churning out a number of interesting blog posts and tweets on twitter.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Kew. Not only will I miss the amazing walks in the gardens but I will also be missing a number of different characters in the library. To my new friends, Jessica Hudson @tomeonmyhands who is now beavering away at Lambeth Palace and Miriam Hopkinson @ArchivesMiriam, who will be going on to an exciting role in Barnados' Archives, I will definitely be keeping in touch with everyone.

As for me and my future, I will be going to do my MA in Library and Information Studies at UCL, which I will talk about in another post.