Sabrina's Internship at the UCF Archives and Special Collections

This week, working on my internship from home, I read a few more articles that were on the intern reading list that my supervisor had sent me to read. I choose to read two articles related to video games and video game archives. Video games have been a passion of mine since I was young enough to play them on the computer or hold a controller or a Gameboy in my hands. In reading the first article entitled “U. of Mich. video game cache serves as an archive, at play,” it talked about how this very different archive accessions their materials. This article was by Mike Householder in 2017 and was published in AP News. They even allow people to play video games at this archive, as well. They even have a budget to buy certain video games as they are released. They make a point in the article that they don’t have every video game ever made but they have roughly 7,000 titles. In my opinion that is amazing. I am originally from Michigan and used to live not far from the University of Michigan. ...

This week, while working from home on all school work including my internship, I created a history bio for the Burnett House. It is mostly completed, and I am just in the editing stages. I have had one of my colleagues look over it to see what her thoughts were. I will also be editing it a bit further. I want it to be absolutely perfect. My supervisor on the STARS project wanted me to start on some readings on archives, several of which peeked my interest, with one specifically because of my love and newfound passion for digital tools as a method for historical preservation.             After this academic school year, I have really discovered a passion for archives and all the work that is done at them. I want to learn as much as possible about them because I am hoping to do a PhD in library science once I graduate from UCF. As I mentioned, my supervisor on the STARS portion of my internship has assigned some readings about...

         This week, working from home on my internship with the UCF Special Collections and University Archives, I have been focused on completing the Excel spread sheet for the STARS website. I am nearly finished with the spread sheet. The building inventory sheet was in numerical order, which makes sense, instead of alphabetical order. Consequently, I was having to go back and add buildings I had missed. It is quite interesting what a totally different job at an internship at Special Collections and University Archives entails. I am enjoying getting the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of multiple jobs at this internship. It is a very different experience working from home on an internship, but it is the new normal I suppose as we are doing this for classes and most everyone has to work from home now as well. I do enjoy working on all of my school work and my internship from home; I just wish it was under better circumstances. I am lucky that I will be d...