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Some real work at the museum

Posted on August 3, 2010 by admin

What’s the high tech way of flattening old paper? First you take a trash can and put an upside down flower pot in it. Then pour a gallon or two of hot warm around it. Next you take two square … Continue reading →

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Prove your love to literature by branding a cow in the face!

Posted on July 19, 2010 by admin

While working at the digitalization internship today, I was describing the contents of an 1893 literary society group at the State Normal and Industrial School (what would later become UNCG). These girls, 117 years ago, had a initiative ritual which … Continue reading →

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Interning While Assisting

Posted on June 28, 2010 by admin

I have a found a perk in being a lowly digitalization intern. While I am waiting for PDFs to compile from rotated to an upright position tiff files, I have time to address the needs of my paid position as … Continue reading →

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Internships

Posted on June 25, 2010 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Info Skills Needed By Digital Librarians

Posted on June 20, 2010 by admin

I’ve been holding this article open in my tab browsers for awhile. The author references Tony Hirst’s workshop where I found the following question interesting and not discussed about in my classes so far: Should the Library be able to … Continue reading →

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Digitalization Internship Week Two

Posted on June 14, 2010 by admin

Project: Select photos from the University’s archives to go onto a Flickr page. The criteria was to find interesting and/or historical photos. My selection (ooooh, can I call this–what do you call it when someone selects a collection?) was basically … Continue reading →

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Good News For People Who Love News

Posted on June 7, 2010 by admin

I got word today that we’ve been given a green light to go ahead and obtain the new web server for work. With the progress I’ve made on the Drupal website, I’m hoping we can go into Beta by this … Continue reading →

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