A Day in the Life: Harriet Comer and R.J. Petrovich

This account was written for the MidAtlantic News Research Conference on July 18-19, 1997.

Harriet Comer and R.J. Petrovich
Macon Telegraph

    Employees:
    Harriet..worked here for 17 yrs. part time--20-25 hrs.a week. R.J.
is full time and has worked at the MT 3 1/2 years. We have two other
part time employees that work about 10 hours each and they only enhance,
working at night and on weekends.
   Bill Weaver: Team leader
   He does research on statistics for data boxes, and is working on the
set up of our new front system and etc.
   Harriet Comer: I usually come in about 9 o'clock.I help look for
missing articles and other problems. About twice a week I check the work
we've done in SAVE against the actual newspaper to see that we have
enhanced everything and have done it correctly. Then I clear system.
   I also prepare the newspaper for micro-film and get it sent off the
first day of the month. Order newspapers, magazines and books for
library. Being from Macon I get a lot of old Macon research questions.
When there is extra time I help with the enhancing.

R.J. Petrovich/Librarian
-- My morning starts at 8 a.m.
   - I first retrieve photos from composing that are going back to the
library.
    - Post papers, compare editions, mark the home edition and off to
the newsroom to retrieve the stories for our database. (since they are
paginating in the newsroom we do not receive our stories in the library)
    - During any part of the day I do research for our staff or the
public (we do charge a small fee for this service for the public).  I
use our SAVE system, Nexis and Vutext for research. Our old clips come
in handy, some date back to the 1930's, but mostly 60's, 70's, 80's, and
90's. The Macon Telegraph went online July/1994 (a week after our
flood).
    - Most of the afternoon I enhance the newspaper, research, file
photos, etc.
    _ I have to add that I have the best boss in the
world!!!!



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