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Photographic slides collections: Day 1
Today was our first day in the photographic slides collection! We found that the inventory spread sheet had accurate information, but we were able to supplement it with a good amount of new data. The...
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Sliding Deeper into the Slides
The main issue we faced today was dealing with random groupings of collections housed in the same box, many of which were way too full. Upon further processing of the collections, we came across...
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Sweet Progress!
As a shelf shifting project is currently underway, our efforts today were geared more toward detailing the accuracy of the data for collections we had previously cataloged. In particular, we went...
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Much to Our Cha(grin)
Our day began with verifying authority data in the creator field of our photographic slides inventory spreadsheet. On that account, we substantiated and/or edited about 100 records, which got us pretty...
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The Original Pole Dancers
Beginning our day with the second round of “Risk Assessment,” we swiftly moved our way back through all of the collections we had processed so far. In general, the slides are all in very good condition...
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Omeka
As a diversion from our typical cataloging and risk assessment, today we attended a workshop presented by Stacy Schiff, Visual Resources Librarian here at the museum, on Omeka, an open-source image...
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Mission Accomplished
On our final day in the Photographic Slide Collection, we divided our day between the two summer-long goals of cataloging hidden collections and performing a risk assessment of these collections. We...
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Welcome to the Jungle
Today was our first day in Invertebrate Zoology. We were greeted by our nice new friends: tarantulas and hissing cockroaches. At first, we tried to get a sense of the collection’s scope and order. Some...
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Honey, Pass the Salt & Pepper
In addition to our assignment of exposing hidden collections and performing risk assessment in the Invertebrate Zoology departmental archive, we are also helping to facilitate a shift of the materials....
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Master this mess!!
In wrapping up our project of a) cataloging, b) performing risk assessment, and c) moving the Invertebrate Zoology departmental archive to the research library, we spent the day sorting out a little...
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