Week 7

1) What I have accomplished throughout the week:

Preservation
I continued my work with pamphlets this week, but worked solely on one collection- minutes and proceedings from divorce cases which took place in the 50s and 60s. I stripped the pamphlets of rusty metal, cleaned them with a smoke sponge, and sewed together the remaining papers. I worked unsupervised this week.

Librarianship
This week I finished my work on the Forster artwork, by checking the published art collection catalog and correcting the numbers associated with each drawing or painting. This will be used to correct official museum records. I also continued my work on listing maps that are uncataloged. This involved working my way through an abandoned pile of old maps, and determining the title, publisher, date, format, and description. I then transferred this information over to an Excel spreadsheet. Finally, I continued my work on creating a finding aid for material within the general collection relating to the Challenger voyage. This involved finding the material, listing the details, and compiling everything on an Excel spreadsheet.

Archiving
This week my work on the Nan Berger archive was posted online. It can be seen on the Women's Library website, and can be used by library patrons to search her archive. I wrote a short biography of Berger that will be posted on her archive, and also wrote a biography for Berger's friend and political partner Helen Joseph. This biography will be posted on Joseph's archive on the Women's Library website. I also began my work on the Miss Great Britain archive. This archive contains over 300 hundred photographs, and began my work by re-packaging the pictures in Melanex folders which will eventually be placed in a folder. I briefly worked on some other photographs that needed to be re-packaged, which were very old photographs of British suffragettes. These were especially interesting because pictures included images of women being arrested, women campaigners, and portraits of celebrated suffragettes. The pictures were mounted on acid free paper, and I had to re size the paper and package them in Melanex envelopes.

2) What intersections I have seen between my job duties:

My internship duties have become much more defined this past week, and there are have been few instersections between them. Again, there are similarities between the methods for listing library material and listing archive material (which I am doing at both the Librarianship and Archiving internships). When I re-packaged the photographs in my archiving internship, I was doing so according to preservation standards. This showed an awareness of the importance of preservation within the archiving field.