LCP Internship: Week 2

Still trying to get into the routine, I spent most of this week continuing to process and describe the Bai T. Moore correspondence. Thirteen hours of arrangement and description all alone in an attic began to feel strange by the end of the week. For most of the time, I was completely alone and the [...]

LCP Internship: Week 1

The first week of my Internship was interesting because every work environment is different… especially those of archives and special collections. The Liberian Collections Project contains many very dirty, burnt, and brittle objects. My first assignment was to begin working on processing the Bai T. Moore (BTM) collection. In the past, I had some experience [...]

Archiving and Digitizing My Vinyl Collections

For Saint Nicholas Day I received a vinyl record recorder that allows me to record from my old albums to my computer, and manipulate sounds via some great software.  I had wanted one of the devices for some time because I own a large collection of rare old school punk and alternative records, as well as many [...]