Reviewing Assignments

Raegan Benda

Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez

October 14, 2025 6:00pm - 8:00pm, October 16, 5:00pm - 7:00pm, October 19, 6:30pm - 8:30 pm, October 22, 4:00pm - 7:30pm

Total Hours: 62.5 hours

During these days of continuing my work for the Law Library of Congress, I finished up Assignment 4 and began Assignment 5. For Assignment 5, I worked in 92_2_House Joint Resolutions_pg1411-1433. Essentially, I was working in the 92nd Congress in the 2nd section of bills, specifically in the House Joint Resolution section. However, this assignment was a review assignment, not an assignment where I was assigned a number of edits to make to the metadata. For review assignments for this internship, you are essentially reviewing a completed assignment another intern has already turned-in and completed. This is so as many people as possible have looked at the spreadsheet and text files, so when they are sent to CRS, there are as little chances as possible that there are additional edits that must be made.

Me working in 92_2_House Joint Resolutions_pg1411-1433.

I've learned a few things since really getting into these review assignments. First, I underestimated my ability to do these assignments. I think when I first understood the purpose of reviewing and anticipated needing to review completed assignments myself, I thought, "Well, this ought to be easier than completing a new assignment". I quickly learned that I was wrong. Review assignments are extremely challenging because you are having to pay that much more attention to the materials and understand even more what edits need to be made for it to be completed correctly. So as I've completed them, I've realized this is an area of weakness for me. I'm not great at being able to see the edits that still need to be made if someone else has already been working in a file. Instead, I find myself working under the assumption that what the previous intern did was probably correct, and I have missed many edits I shouldn't have in the process.