Sabrina's Internship at the UCF Archives and Special Collections

This week, at UCF Special Collections and University Archives, I finished up working on the binder from last week which had a large portion of legal documents, including various deeds and indentures. It was very interesting to go through this type of documents since I have never looked at deeds or indentures before and it gave me a new outlook on this collection and the various documents in it. These documents made me wonder if these legal documents are the same elsewhere in the United States in terms of how they look, since I have never seen documents like these before. I believe I have also forgotten to mention previously that all of these documents are copies of the originals. I also found something exceedingly interesting in the collection – an (as far as I can see) unpublished manuscript which now has its own folder in the collection. Once I rehouse the rest of the collection that remains in binders I would like to go back to this manuscript and look through it in more detail. I ...

         This week, at the UCF Special Collections and University Archives, I worked further on the survey of my assigned collection. I removed the staples and took many of the documents out of the clear plastic sleeves that were house previously in three-ring binders. This week, I was able to get through two full binders and start on the third. I have been struggling a little bit trying to understand which dates are the dates most important for the boxes and the finding aid, as I had mentioned previously in last week’s blog. Many of the documents have several dates on them and trying to pick the one date that is the most important sometimes gets a little confusing. I want all of my work to be perfect so I ask my supervisor a lot of questions. I also began to put the documents in acid-free folders this week and putting them in the first box. In one of the binders that I went through this week, there were a large number of duplicates of a similar item from anoth...

        This week was the second week of my internship and yielded a great deal of useful experience. On Monday, I primarily finished up going through the binder. This binder, as I mentioned in last week’s post, examined policies, rule, history, how to create a finding aid, as well as how to process a collection, and many more very fascinating things about archival work and preservation.   For the second portion of the day, I took a test on filing call numbers based off of the call number classification system that the Library of Congress uses. The test was to sort in alphabetical and numerical order based off of this classification. All of the call numbers were on note cards. I got all of the answers correct except two which were turned around or mixed up on accident. I found the test and this specific classification system to be very interesting and I thoroughly enjoyed taking this test. The test was a lot of fun and I learned a lot from it. The last ten minu...