LCP Internship Week 15: End of the Internship

One of my supervisors continues to be in Africa on business, and my other supervisor has been in contact with me about finding more empty folders and completing the internship. I worked very long hours, as I did last week, and completed the education box, while starting to arrange some of the reports and conference [...]

LCP Internship Week 14: Wrapping Things Up & Reflections on Processing

Monday morning of this week, I sent my supervisor, Mr. Stone, an email to let him know that I had a class project that I had to work on and so would be rearranging my schedule for the week. On Tuesday morning, I received a message stating that he had to leave right away for [...]

LCP Internship Week 13: Caught by a Cold on Thanksgiving Break

The week of Thanksgiving break and of course I would have to become ill. I became very ill with a cold and remained home most of the week. This means that I will have to make up many hours of work during the next two weeks, and also that I did not have much of [...]

LCP Internship Week 12: Editing & Spreadsheet Calculating for Project Funding, & Processing Education

Up for processing this week was the box of documents related to education, but I was pulled away from processing this section of the collection in order to edit a document and complete some calculations for an update on the status of a project that the Liberian Collections is in the process of completing.  I [...]

LCP Internship Week 11: Proofreading the LC’s Pages on the New IU Finding Aids Website

Continuing to work on the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture documents, I found that some of the most interesting items in the collection were within this box, including papers that had wonderfully artistic interpretations of their subjects, and a lot of discussion about education in Africa. I worked very hard [...]

LCP Internship Week 10: Processing the Second World Black & African Festival of Arts & Culture Documents

Processing programs is now complete and I have started processing the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture items. This is going to be another box that is difficult to arrange and describe because many of the files contain papers that were submitted to the festival, and although most of the papers [...]

LCP Internship Week 9: Editing for the New Website

I worked less than 12 hours this week, so I will need to make up the hours during the next week by working longer. There was a lot of editing to do during this week. I edited and made summaries from biographies written about several of the figures that had collections in the Liberian Collections [...]

LCP Internship Week 8: Grant Proposal Work & Processing Programs

Having finished processing the speeches, I began working on processing programs and filling out a grant proposal. Completing the grant proposal has been one of the most interesting things that I have done so far. I have not had the time to look at very many grant proposals, so delving into this one for the [...]

LCP Internship Week 7: The Many Roles of an Archivist

Having completed the bills, receipts, and correspondence, I continued to work on arranging speeches, as well as some editing. The speeches mostly related to specific events, so I arranged them by subject: political, presidential, and specific events. At this point I began to process much quicker and still precisely. Being nearly half of the way through [...]

LCP Internship Week 6: How Much is Too Much Processing?

I do not know if I could have spent any longer on the receipts and bills than I did this week. By the end of the week, I was very tired of receipts and bills, and felt as though I could still see them when I closed my eyes. If I could redo any of [...]