Hello everyone! I hope everyone had a good week. This week was the 14th week of me being the SCUA Processing intern! Also, it was my last week! This week I worked towards fully finishing most of my projects. I got pretty far with my last collection, but I was not able to finish it before I had to leave.
Starting off this week on Tuesday, there were no articles to read and there hadn't been for the past few weeks. I keep going back and reading a few of them, like the FSU Security chief getting caught stealing rare comics or the article about Russia destroying Ukrainian Archives. On Tuesday I also worked on finishing sorting and rehousing the printed presentations, along with labeling them. It took my entire day as there were two boxes of presentations, but I can absolutely say that sorting, labeling, and rehousing is my favorite part of the processing process. Whenever I took a break from writing, I sorted through the recorded CDs of presentations and put them in order. I also double checked and made sure they were the only recorded presentations.
On Wednesday, I worked towards putting everything in order. I started with the UCF Metro series, and continued moving things around until the end of my day. On Thursday, I started finalizing all my projects. I started off with redoing some of my Jeopardy questions and redecorated it to make it more appealing, then did the same with the Matching card game. Then I went and finished the subject headings, scope and contents note, and I had to redo my research on the BioHistory worksheet. My supervisor, Arielle, found a UCF Metro collection so we decided to move all the UCF Metro VHS tapes and CDs to that collection. It brought the collection down from 16 boxes to about 6 boxes, so the UCF Metro materials made up most of the collection. But that was all I was really able to get done before I left!
It was very bittersweet leaving, I was super happy that I was done but I also did not want to leave. Throughout the internship, I learned how to research, rehouse, label, and everything else that comes with processing collections. I also learned more about myself, and what I would like to do as a career and where I would like to end up in the future.
Thank you to the Special Collections and University Archives team for having me as your processing intern this semester! I truly loved being there and learning from you. Thank you!