After completing this project I find that there are some skills that I would like to work on further, this includes digitizing material. I found it hard to try and capture the contents of material while making the scanned image as professional and presentable as possible. Some of the materials were books or booklets so…

For the final week in my directed fieldwork I completed the scanning, digitizing, and cataloging aspects of this project. For the scanning I was able to complete all of the Cardinal Newspapers, Descant magazines, Sqajet journal, and several different miscellaneous materials in the Student Services collection. The Cardinal Newspaper was the voluminous with editions of…

We continued the same scanning project these weeks. The site supervisor confirmed that the material metadata that I had added in contentDM was appropriate and correct for the most part. There were some small changes that needed to be done, for instance the title of the collection that I had created said “Student Athletics” however…

This week we were finally able to start the digitization process. My site supervisor began by walking me through how to use the Scan Snapshot equipment, how to edit the images once they had been captured and then upload them to a separate flash drive. This process entailed laying the material out on a black…

This week entailed finishing the re-organization of the archive according to the new taxonomy. This week I finished with the administration services section and moved on to the student services section. I was able to finish this process by the end of week 6. Now all of the material is organized alphabetically by the over-arching…

My site supervisor and I had a good long discussion this week about what the classification and call number schema should look like. We discussed the different ideas that I had brainstormed last week and we also looked at some examples from Tacoma Community College Archives. The identification # that they use begins with either…