Internships

At the digitalization internship:

• Scanned in old theater catalogs and made PDFs out of them. Time: 2 days
• Picked out photos for a promotional piece on Flickr. Time: 2 days (there were 6000+ photos to go through)
• Corrected the orientation of the student handbooks and catalogs from UNCG’s first fifteen years. Turned them into PDFs. Next week I’ll OCR them so they can be searched. Time so far: 2 days.

For the archives internship:

• Scan in photo negatives from 1947 of scenes around Greensboro.
• Add metadata information to the photos.
• Use Microsoft Access for the first time to fill in database information about the photos.
• Search through Civil War era photography for portraits to add to the Civil War collection.
• I may be allergic to mold since I get severe headaches whenever I’m near the fuzzy books.
• Learn about the damaging effects of humidity on materials.
• Find out how to remove mold from the exterior of leather (a dry rag) and cloth covered books (a dab of Lysol).

I’m looking forward to my digitali libraries and introduciton to archives class this fall!