Hello everyone! I hope you guys all had a good week. This past week was my fifth week as a SCUA Intern! This week started with my supervisor, Arielle, and I talking about the articles for this week, along with what I submitted last week. Firstly, I had two articles this week, both were about digital archives! One talked about recording and saving audio materials, like news broadcasts and radio stations. The second article talked about webcomics and web cultures, and how they are now being archived at the Library of Congress. Arielle said that the articles are to introduce me to different areas within archiving, which is really cool. We talked about how, especially with the webcomic and webculture materials, the archivists try to keep the whole website interactive while archived, instead of just taking a screenshot and keeping it, like I thought they would.
We also talked about the worksheets I submitted last week and what to do for my outreach project. For the worksheets, I finished the finding aid for the Bicentennial collection I was working on. Arielle reviewed it to make sure I did everything right, and the only corrections I really needed were wording the sections better and adding a few more things. After that, we talked about my outreach project. The outreach project is meant to introduce students who might never know that we have archives and special collections at UCF to them. I’ve decided to try to make a game! I’m still trying to come up with everything, but it’s most likely going to be a guessing game of some sort. I still have time to work on it, but hopefully I will be starting it next week!
After we finished with everything, I continued working on the new collection I was given. It’s a bunch of pictures from the International Student Association, and it’s pretty awesome seeing the events and stuff they used to do! I mostly worked on sleeving the loose photos that were in the third box, because I didn’t want to mix up any photos. I ended up sorting through most of the “random” collections of photos, some of which had names of the events and dates on them, and being able to slowly see the different events as I sorted through the photos was a really awesome experience. It’s like putting together a photo album! Unfortunately, I did not get to finish before I had to leave for the week, but I have something to look forward to for next week!
Anyway, thank you for taking the time to read this! Have a nice week!