The past couple weeks at my internship have been fun! I have spent a lot of time working on my main project which is creating finding aids to help individuals who want to learn about Westbrook. This requires both a biographical note (information about the individual/organization the item belongs to) and a scope note (tells what kind of material can be found within the series). Also, I have been working on refolding and organizing photographs. For this, I have to…
Today instead of our traditional class, we had the opportunity to visit the Production Studio. First we talked with Janelle about what the expectations/set up would be for the Board of Trustees Interview and then we got right into interviewing. Zak interviewed me first and I thought the experience went really well! To start, we learned how to “mic-up” and then got seated at the interview set. I had made notes of how I wanted to answer each question but…
During the past couple of weeks, we have done a lot more hands-on work at my internship! Last Wednesday, I was able to finally finish reading and taking notes on all of the material in the collection. This was definitely a lot of work, but I am happy that I took my time instead of just opening a box and doing a quick scan of the first couple of items. I have now began the process of writing the finding…
