Greetings from the Big Easy!
It’s been a while since my last post. :( However, I’ve been very busy processing O’Neal's papers, giving tours and presentations, creating metadata for one of the center’s digital projects, completing virtual reference requests, and exploring the city of New Orleans.
Week 23 was very busy. I completed two online reference requests; attended the second session of the LOC digital preservation webinar; continued to create metadata for digital projects by using Dublin Core metadata standards; and continued to process the fourth series of O’Neal’s papers.
The fourth series begins with the arrangement of O’Neal’s personal correspondence. The files in this series comprise of O’Neal’s personal correspondence and other related materials, which is the largest series in the collection. Arranged chronologically, the array of material include letters which document O’Neal’s involvement as an active college student at Southern Illinois University; communications about The Free Southern Theater; correspondence regarding raising money for the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (1963); professional reference communications; personal mail from family members; and personal greeting cards. The bulk of the correspondence ranges from 1960-1969.
For professional development, I attended the Association of Southeast Research Libraries’ Introduction to Digital Preservation Webinar, based on the Library of Congress Digital Outreach and Education (DPOE) modules. This first module, Identifying and Selecting Content, examined considerations when identifying and selecting content for long-term preservation.
Please visit my blog for detailed highlights of my weekly experiences at Amistad.
Until next week! Peace!
Felicia
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