Day Eleven - June 4, 2024

 


 

I worked more on descriptions today and went back to correct some of my older work. I did take a closer 

look at the published material. I set aside what I thought wouldn’t be relevant but I ended up keeping most 

of the books. I did some research with UNT’s online catalogue and more of the books than I expected 

weren’t in the library at all. Overall, the books cover a wide range of topics: the great depression, the life of 

a model, a copy of the New Testament psalms, etc. There was an issue of a magazine I may have mentioned 

before might actually be a bit rare but I can’t say for sure. All together, the books fit almost perfectly into a 

fold-over box. Although I think most of the AV material should be de-accessioned, I’ve decided to keep his 

home movies. Almost everything else seems to be illegal rips of fairly popular movies, which the library 

probably already has. I am interested to know what some of them actually have on them but I guess that’s 

a job for the digital archivist. 

I have an idea of what the display can be but I’ll need some copies made of the scrapbook pages. Since I 

moved them out of the binders I don’t want to separate anything but I think they’d be cool for the display. 

I also want to display some photographs taken at different times in his life and maybe a poster from a protest

 I think he probably attended. Although, that might be too big to display on the shelves. Anyway, I’ll have to

 wait till it gets back to preservation. Depending on how well they are able to flatten the poster, I may not be 

able to display the poster at all. I feel like I’m making pretty good time for processing the collection.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

First Day: May 20, 2024

Image
The Phil Johnson collect ion as donated before I surveyed the material. There's a variety of material including books, DVD s, writing and artifacts.        This was the first day of my internship with the special collections department at the University of North Texas. I’m working alongside seven other students processing materials for the university archives. I was assigned to the Philip Johnson collection; a collection of personal items, paperwork, and writing done by gay activist Philip Johnson. Johnson advocated for gay rights, and contributed a huge amount of materials to UNT’s LGBT resource Center. He, unfortunately, passed away in 2019 but I’m really excited to work with the materials provided by his estate. Our supervisor for the internship, Morgan Gieringer, went over what we’d be doing for the next five weeks. In broad strokes, we’ll be surveying our collections, appraising the materials, making a processing plan, arranging the materials, determining what n...
Read more

Day Three - May 22, 2024

Image
       Today, we had a lecture on making a processing plan for the first hour of the morning. It was very informative and our supervisors, Sam and Meagan, made sure to put a template for a processing plan and some example plans in the  team's account. I Spent most of the day working on surveying. I looked through the rest of Phil’s scrapbook. I learned  some interesting stuff about his life, career and activism. I was considering it before but now I’m definitely sure it  should be the main part of the collection. The book had a lot of interesting photos and some really interesting writing  about his early life. I kind of wish he had written more about his life. I think he did contribute to a few different  newspapers so maybe more of his personal stories are written down in the world.  I think I’m getting a better idea of the function of this collection now. With the book, the paperwork on his  military career, the papers kept...
Read more

Day Thirteen - June 6, 2024

Image
  Today the morning was taken up entirely by an introductory presentation to ArchivesSpace.  The website used by UNT to manage the metadata and online database for their archival collections. We  won’t be able to actually input anything into ArchivesSpace yet because the person in charge of that is on  vacation until next week.  The actual website looked a bit like some of the programs I’ve used while freelancing. I’ve done a bit of  data-entry and research jobs for a local newspaper, but of course the focus of the two sites requires some  different features. I appreciated how in depth the presenter went. Especially where we could access tutorials  on how to use the site's different features, even if the videos were in their words “Too long and boring”.  I tend to be more of a visual learner, so having some extra instructions should be helpful in the future. For the second presentation on resource record, eMott went throug...
Read more