My time with APS is nearing a close, next week will be my last week there. I\u2019ve enjoyed my time, and I\u2019m thankful for the experience. I worked 19 hours this week, bringing me to 120 hours. I\u2019ve 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\u2019t 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\u2019m 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\u2019t ask to be working with a better group of people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019m transcribing. I\u2019ll have to ask Sabrina if that\u2019s okay, and then edit my posts from the previous weeks to have them.\u00a0\u00a0
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\u2019m hoping my last week will be fully focused on the collection and do my best to finish, or get close to fully processing it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My time with APS is nearing a close, next week will be my last week there. I\u2019ve enjoyed my time, and I\u2019m thankful for the experience. I worked 19 hours this week, bringing me to 120 hours. I\u2019ve been gathering my notes and thoughts to write a summary of my experience, which will come in … <\/p>\n