The transition from undergrad to graduate school is a difficult one. When coming to IU I did not know anyone and had no real understanding of what graduate school was even going to be like. I have known for a very long time that I have wanted to go to library school. My mom is… Read more »
Post #11 New Stuff from this Week!
This week, I was able to fulfill the four pending research requests that we had. For the past few weeks, MDPI has been down so we have been unable to retrieve copies of our audio files. That is quite a difficult thing to work around as an oral history archive. But it felt so amazing… Read more »
Post #10 Oh the Romanians
This week has begun with continued focus on the Romanian American’s of Lake County oral history collection. This collection was been severely mismanaged from the start. This could be in part because the interviews were conducted in the 1970s and then given to our archive in 2003. This amount of time can make collections more… Read more »
Post #9 Reflections Thus Far
Hey there! This week I am still working on the Romanian project and it is proving to be a headache. But this post is not to talk about my project for the week. This post is for me to reflect on what this internship has got me thinking about when it comes to my future… Read more »
Post #8 What am I up to this week?
Hey there! This week has been a transition period for me with this internship! I have finished the Ostrom collection’s Archive Space finding aid so what am I up to now? Well, this week I have started work on the Romanian Americans of Lake County Collection. This collection is from the 1970s but its metadata… Read more »
Post #7 Ostrom Project Update #2
This week, I continued work on the input of all of the Ostrom Project finding aids into ArchiveSpace. I have to say that it has really been a learning experience. This is because the technology is very new to IU so not many people really know ALL the ins and outs of the program…. Read more »
Post #6 Ostrom Project Update
Last week, I began my work of creating the Ostrom Grant 2014 project within ArchiveSpace. ArchiveSpace is a very new addition to IU’s arsenal of archival and collection management tools. This has created quite the learning curve for me. I have never used the program before and have only learned about it via my… Read more »
Post #5 Exciting Developments!!
For the first time this semester, I am working in person at the Oral History Archive! It has been so great these last two days to be working in person. I have been continuing on with the Ostrom Project that I mentioned in my last post. I have gone through all of the finding… Read more »
Post #4 Exciting New Project!
This past week I have started working on a new project that will take me some time to complete. It is the Ostrom Grant Project which was created in 2014. The program centers around interviews that discuss Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and their time and impact at IU Bloomington. Elinor and Vincent Ostrom were both… Read more »
Post #3 What Am I Up To
This week was focused on finishing up the push lists and starting on my next interesting tasks. A new thing that I did this week made corrections to our finding aids on ArchiveSpace. ArchiveSpace is our new platform for housing our digitized records. There is a back end that archivists see and then there is… Read more »