Sabrina's Internship at the UCF Archives and Special Collections

         This week, I am still unable to go into UCF Special Collections and University Archives. I have since emailed Ms. Mundy and purchased a voice recorder to record the oral history interview. However, I have not received an email back from her yet. I have still been working on creating questions just in case Ms. Mundy does get back to me via email and wants to do the oral history interview for hours towards my internship. I will submit them to my supervisor and my professor Dr. French for approval once they are completed. However, I was hoping to hear back from Ms. Mundy first. I will still submit my questions even if I don’t hear back from her.             On another note, as I mentioned in last week’s post, I was given another assignment to assist in finishing out the rest of my internship hours. I am assisting with the STARS website, which means I am working on the Historic Building Tour of ...

         This week has been an interesting and challenging one for my internship. Coronavirus has spread around the world seemingly in the blink of an eye. Monday would have been my first day back at my internship at UCF Special Collections and University Archives in person, following spring break. However, due to the spread of coronavirus I will be unable to return in person the Special Collections and University archives for the rest of the semester. This is really upsetting for me because I really enjoy working there and I have learned a great deal there. I do hope I can finish creating the finding aid as a volunteer later on. All classes, including internships, are online and most staff, including all of our professors in the history department, are working remotely to keep everyone safe from getting sick. I am glad that the university and the government decided that it would be best for everyone to make all classes online. I am very glad that much of the u...

            This week, at the UCF Special Collections and University Archives, I finished up the current draft of the finding aid I had been working on. I had to add a few extra finishing touches that I thought were interesting that I didn’t know about before starting on the creation of the finding aid, and ultimately the public can see these additions to the finding aid. Specifically, I included information about how the collection was processed and what I did in processing the collection. For example, I discussed in this section of the finding aid how the collection looked when it was given to UCF Special Collections and University Archives, and how I rehoused the documents in acid free folder boxes and archival safe clear sleeves for photos and transparencies. I also discussed how I removed all of the staples, paperclips, and binder clips from the documents. This section is traditionally only a few sentences. However, when I first had written this secti...