For the first week of my internship at Musicol in Columbus, Ohio, the focus was to get me acquainted with the place and learn some of the basic tasks like counting sleeves and prepping boxes. We get our 7” and 12” sleeves in boxes that we take down to the basement to be counted out for orders. We count them in 10s so that whoever is running the vinyl press can keep count of how many are done. For the 7-inch sleeves, we stack them vertically on a tall spindle and separate them by test pressings or scrap records. A record is put down, and then stacks of 10 are counted and stacked on top of each other in an alternating pattern until there are 100. Another record is stacked on top, followed by another 100 sleeves. This repeats until we reach the top of the spindle, usually 600 sleeves total. For the 12” LP sleeves, we use a slightly different method. A flat piece of cardboard is set out and 5 groupings of 10 are stacked in an alternating overlapping pattern on the left side of the cardboard. This process then repeats on the right side, overlapping the sleeves on the left. This process repeats until we reach 500 total sleeves. As we moved later into the week, I learned to stuff record jackets and apply stickers on orders.