Day Nineteen - June 13, 2024

 

I spent most of the day working between the bulk important template and the plan for my display. Today, our supervisor eMott had a cart brought in the room and told us anything we wanted scanned and copied for the displays should be placed on it. So the tech team can work on making the stuff as soon as possible.
There are a lot of pages in the scrapbook I think would make good display items, So I’ve decided to mark a bunch with bookmarks and have a few extras. That way I can decide what to put up, with the actual display. I mean, I already have a pretty good idea but I’m not the best visualizer, so I worry I might be using too much or too little. I guess, we’ll see when I actually start setting stuff up.
In the interest of making sure none of the pages of the scrapbook got put out of place, I put the entire box on the cart. It’s only a fold over box, so it’s not like it took up a huge amount of space but I really didn’t want anything to be out of place.
I also did get the bulk import to be error-less technically, which was exciting. Until I actually entered in and realized I had gotten the hierarchy completely wrong. The Finding aids on ArchivesSpace are supposed to have a nesting-doll type structure (I know there’s a technical term for it but I can’t remember it). Where the series is the highest container, and within that are the subseries which hold the files. At least the basic idea. Somehow I had gotten it where all the files of the entire collection were in a long list without being in order at all. So, I ended up deleting everything to fix again in the bulk import sheet.

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