05.27.2010

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.