Sabrina's Internship at the UCF Archives and Special Collections

This week, at UCF Special Collections and University Archives, I began working on a second draft of the finding aid in Microsoft Word. I suspect there will be at least one or two more drafts before the information is ready to be put into the program that will ultimately upload the finding aid I have created onto the library website for Special Collections and University Archives. This week I did not really have to take the cart out of the stacks in Special Collections since I was primarily just organizing the finding aid on a folder level by city and then in alphabetical order. If there are folders that have the same name due to the similarity the folder goes by numerical order, with the earlier dates coming first and the more recent dates after. It is a system that will make a lot of sense for anyone using the finished finding aid.             As I work on each process of creating the finding aid, I find that the things I was co...

         This week, at UCF Special Collections and University Archives, I worked on finishing up rehousing the documents from their binders into folders. There was one last photo and, as I said previously, it is quite interesting to see these photos because it almost gives those looking at the documents a look at who these individuals were. After finishing up the binders this week I also finished up the survey of the collection. I talked with my supervisor about the next stages in creating the finding aid and we also discussed how we should create the series for the finding aid and the documents. In other words, I will now be rearranging the documents and further checking for duplicates. Again, many of the documents I found within the last two binders I finished this week included census data, a photograph, and, most interesting of all, several more manuscripts from the same author that had written the others I had mentioned previously. One was e...

This week at the UCF Special Collections and University Archives, I was able to get through several more binders in the collection. I only have one binder left to look at and rehouse and one that I had mentioned previously that I was going to go back to when I was finished with all of the other binders. However, there has already been information I created previously for the other items in that binder so it will be easy to go back to. Basically, I only have one and a half binders left to complete. There are also several loose papers, that I believe from only briefly looking at them are photocopies of original censuses. As I finish up my survey of the collection, I continue to find that there is a large portion of census data that I will in the coming weeks be checking for duplicates. I am really excited to see what the next step is in processing this collection.             This week for the most part it was a lot of the same thi...