I must be more of a visual learner than I thought. Once I was able to see how another person approached the DDC and LC assignment I was able to discern what and how this was to be done. Here is my reflection on this assignment.
Like my colleagues before me I probably took way too long with this assignment. I was completely stumped as to what was required of me and spent most of my day off on Friday reading and re-reading the text and various websites trying to get a feel for this assignment. I know now that I was probably over-thinking this!
I ended up creating an account with Amicus at Library and Archives Canada and also used both the VPL and the Library of Congress. I also found that by the end I was using just Amicus and and the LC as they had the most comprehensive catalogue for my purposes.
It was actually alot of fun using the Dewey book. I can see that more exposure to this would definitely make me a better T-L with greater knowledge of my collection. Having the Resourse Centre in our district do all of our cataloguing removes the elementary T-Ls from the process unfortunately.
Once I got the hang of this it did not take me long at all but the learning curve seemed pretty steep on Friday!