Good News!

I got a job. In an actual music library! It's with Symphony Services International, which is a company that the six main orchestras in Australia hire to provide them with music that they may not have in their own libraries. SSI also writes program notes for the orchestras and does travel arrangements for visiting artists, making sure they have visas and itinteraries, etc.

I completely got it by accident, because I had initially just asked if they had any volunteer work for me to do, but they ended up just asking me to fill a job that had recently been vacated. It's not a librarian job, and technically I'm an Administration Officer, but I do a lot of work with the databases, some cataloguing, etc. so I think it will be really good to get some experience! My contract is for 8 weeks at which point they may extend it if everything is going well. Not sure what this means for the Sydney Symphony internship, but I haven't even started that yet so maybe I can work something out with them...