Weeeee! I feel like I’m really accomplishing something here. I have eight hours left in my required 120-hour internship. Fun fact about only having eight hours left, I get TWO FULL DAYS off this weekend :). I’ve been doing a lot of weekend work to make sure I finished all of my hours before the fall semester really gets going, so this weekend will be a nice break.
Monthly Archives: August 2021
Lots to do! Dwindling time.
I’m having a bit of trouble writing about my work this week, because it’s difficult for me to remember exactly what I did! There were a lot of different things. I’ll look at my journal and gather my thoughts.
Center for Advanced Visual Studies special collection
So this week I started migrating the Center for Advanced Visual Studies special collection finding aid from PDF form to ArchivesSpace. Holy moly! This is a big job. I haven’t had such a large AS task yet in any of my positions, so it feels like a big deal. The PDF is ninety-six pages long and covers 810 linear feet of materials. WOW! So I’ve spent twelve hours on it so far and I’m nowhere near halfway done. I’m going to keep plugging away!
LOC Authorities
This week I went back to the EMS finding aid to go over the subjects, related names, and other topic headings to connect this collection to others with the same topics. Originally I didn’t check everything on the Library of Congress authorities webpage (which I have used SO many times since I started school), because there were over 100 names on the list, but my graduate school advisor thought it would be good experience to check everything…
Kayla Allen 