My time with APS is nearing a close, next week will be my last week there. I’ve enjoyed my time, and I’m thankful for the experience. I worked 19 hours this week, bringing me to 120 hours. I’ve been gathering my notes and thoughts to write a summary of my experience, which will come in the near future.
This week I started off on Monday working on my brown bag presentation. I wanted to use the scans from the previous week to finish it. I worked on that in the morning and then did some transcription work. I met with Sabrina in the afternoon to discuss the brown bag presentation and shared it with her. She added a few slides, and we discussed the ordering of the slides. I wasn’t sure if I should talk about my personal research interest or just the Rev City project, and she encouraged me to talk about my personal work as well. I presented on Tuesday, and honestly, I was nervous. I’m usually okay with doing presentations, but something about this one just had me feeling a bit anxious. I had to give the presentation over my lunch break at work, so perhaps that adds to it. Sabrina, Bayard, and Joe all complimented and congratulated me on Thursday when I saw them. I couldn’t ask to be working with a better group of people.
Thursday I spent the day working on transcription and preparing information on the Shreve collection. I was working on updating some of the information in the Excel spreadsheet, and some information about the historic background of the collection. I want to start adding some screen captures of some of the letters I’m transcribing. I’ll have to ask Sabrina if that’s okay, and then edit my posts from the previous weeks to have them.
Friday I worked with Sabrina on metadata. We had two fragile letters and 2 bookmarks we had to scan as well, so she showed me how to do that. We used the book scanner for these objects. I continued working on the metadata and started writing some abstracts on the documents. I’m hoping my last week will be fully focused on the collection and do my best to finish, or get close to fully processing it.