Hello everyone! I hope everyone had a good week. This week was the 9th week of me being the SCUA Processing intern! This week wasn’t very busy, but it was at the same time. To start off this week, we did not have readings! It’s the first week with no readings, but it means we are slowly getting closer to the end of the semester. On Tuesday I didn’t do much other than working on my outreach project, mostly making the Jeopardy board myself cause I couldn’t find any already finished ones that fit the number of questions and categories I wanted. It took me most of the day to set up, with all the links, slides, and outline of the entire Jeopardy board being set up by myself. It wasn’t hard but it took a while for me to figure out what I wanted and where I wanted it to go.
After that, on Wednesday, I used the first part of the day to finish what I was doing with the Jeopardy board and then I had to pick out the color palette I’ll be using for the board, which was harder than I thought it would be. I tried a couple of different ones, but with the help of my supervisor, Arielle, we decided to just go with the UCF theme of gold and black. I hope it’ll look nice when it's all finished!
On Thursday, we had a little field trip! Arielle, Chloe, and I all went to the Rollins College Archives and Special Collections. I prepared questions to ask beforehand, researched the college a little, and got enough sleep the night before. We left UCF around 9:45ish, and got back around 12:35ish. The first part of the trip consisted of us asking questions to the Rollins archivists. I asked about what collections they have and how they sorted through them and decided what to keep. I also asked both of the Rollins archivists what they did on a daily basis, since I wanted to learn about what goes on, what can happen, and what the job consists of in different academic institutions to help me decide my future with more information. We also got a tour of their archives and their spaces, which was really cool! They had a ton of old books and materials about their specific college and the area (Winter Park) around it, along with a lot of old digital technology. One of the archivists is a digital archivist and she’s working on moving some of their collections into a digital format, since the space they have is so small and they don’t have a lot of room for any more collections. Overall, it was a really cool experience and I learned a lot!
Anyways, thank you so much for reading! I hope everyone has a good week!