Vivian’s Site

For this project we had to write a paper reflecting on the topics we covered over the course of the semester. In addition to this, we also had to include our learning goals, community service experience and how we felt the semester went. Section I.  Over the past semester, I have learned a lot about the components of citizenship and what defines being a citizen. In class, we explored many aspects of citizenship such as community service, different community capitals,…

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Over the course of the past semester, I have been interning at UNE’s Archives and Special Collection department under Cathleen Miller. This podcast assignment, we were tasked to use both narration and actual evidence to tell our experience with our internship. In the podcast, I describe some of the projects that I worked on during my time in the archives. This includes finding aids, reorganization of photos, and social media. More importantly, I discuss how I feel my skills and…

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The past couple of weeks my internship tasks have been slightly more tailored. I’ve begun working on a mind map for my future exhibit. This includes thinking about sources I would like to use, the story I want to tell, materials needed, and a rough to-do list. So far, this method has been extremely useful as it helps me see a entire visual of my project and goals are. Besides this, I also had the chance to help Cathleen with…

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Over the past couple of weeks I have continued re-foldering photographs and thinking about my future exhibit. Additionally, I also had the opportunity to be involved in two promotional photoshoots at my internship and the production studio. For the photoshoot at my internship I was photographed looking through scrapbooks and photographs and also working with Cathleen. In the production studio, I staged a podcast with my classmate, Chloe. The purpose of this was to showcase the production studio and the…

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Over the past couple of weeks I have primarily worked on organizing photos. This includes dating them, which I have learned is one of my favorite activities. Typically, I start this process by looking at the photo and seeing if there is any marks on the image with dates. If not, then I try to look at items such as clothing, shoes, cars, hairstyles, etc that could give a clue as to where the photo was.

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…

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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…

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