2020 Internship Blog Post #7
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
even published in a newspaper article, of which we have a photocopy in the
collection as well. It is also interesting to note that these manuscripts were
all written roughly between 2005 and 2009. As I have mentioned previously, I
would also like to show these manuscripts to my professor as part of my final
project for the internship in addition to the other ones I have found in the
collection previously.
My supervisor and I decided that I
would organize the collection firstly by the three major cities in Florida that
the collection covers – Eatonville, Apopka, and Ocoee. I am almost certain
there will be a category for miscellaneous documents that do not fit within
these cities. This week I also began working on the first rough draft of the
finding aid. I printed out a finding aid that had been published on the website
that my supervisor had worked on previously, as well as the survey I did so we
could see how to organize the collection before this. My supervisor showed me
how to properly create a finding aid and what it should look like on a folder
level, since there are many ways to do this. You can also create a collection
on an item level if the collection lends itself to that. However, the
collection I am working on will be organized by the folder level. There will
also be series for photos and for manuscripts. We then decided to organize the
documents in alphabetical order instead of by date. I think the fact that we
decided to organize the documents alphabetically will be very useful,
especially for certain types of documents including the census data, plot
summaries, the manuscripts, the ordinances, and documents on FBI
investigations. It might be challenging for the photographs and several other
things as well. Overall, however, we made very good decisions about the collections.
At the end of the shift I worked on the rough draft of the finding aid, which I
will continue next week, while I work on reorganizing the documents and the
folders. Lastly, I went over my midterm evaluation with my supervisor. We
discussed the evaluation and the next steps in the internship and I signed it
and submitted it to Dr. French.
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University of Central Florida Special Collections and University Archives
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