Before beginning the activities of the day Ellie gave me a document that included the daily activities I would be engaging in. The activities can be grouped into two categories archival duties and library duties.
The library duties include:
-Auction Catalogs (research the prices of recent auction materials for the curators)
-Copy Cataloging
-Serials
-Shelving
The Archival duties include:
-Artist Files (accumulated archival materials about artists such as; newspaper clippings, deaths etc)
-Archives (everything from selection to description in the finding aid)
-Acquisitions and database entry
-Research (help staff and researchers find archival material for their projects)
Of the aforementioned activities today I entered books into a database. This is a preliminary step in the creation of a card catalog record for the item. I also continued my appraisal duties and began to arrange some of these resources.
About Me
- mshardin
- I received my M.L.I.S. from Kent State University with a concentration in Archival Administration. Since the completion of my M.L.I.S. I have constructed a digital repository for Cleveland State University, volunteered at the Hudson Historical Society and traced my genealogy back to slavery using census records and slave registers. Currently, I am working at the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum where I am processing Mayme Clayton’s personal papers, implementing cloud computing as a method of digital archives management, and digitizing a collection of photographs that date back to the early 20th century.
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