Public Program
Since I last
posted, I have completed all the interviews that I am doing for the Black in
the Lowcountry project. I am so excited. So far I have completed transcribed
three of the College of Charleston student interviews and have one left to do
for that phase and for the second phase I finished the high school student
interviews today. The college
students were a little bit easier to get information and stories from, but the
high school students did well and I think that the project gave them an opportunity
to express themselves.
Archives
I finished
describing and arranging the various collections (i.e. small collections that
consist of 1-5 folders). This week I will begin to label the folders.
I created
MARC records for the Lois Simms collection that I processed previously and sent
this one as well as others over the cataloging department so that they can be
put into the library’s and WorldCat catalog. In order to continue the workflow
of creating MARC records, I created a guide to help Ms. Mayo and the new fellow
with creating them, so that they can benefit from my experiences.
Last week
was busy as we had three interviews for the Archival Manager position here at
Avery, each of the candidates had their pros and cons and I hope that the search
committee makes a good hiring decision.
Activities
This past weekend
was the 150th anniversary of Robert Smalls capturing of the
Confederate vessel The Planter. I most of the events of the weekend including
the unveiling of a Historic Marker and Historic Plaque in downtown; the marker
is located where he and the crew captured the vessel and the plaque is near
where he picked up his wife and children. I also had the opportunity to meet
some of his descendants who came down from the event. For those of you who are
unfamiliar with Smalls as I was before I came to Charleston, more information
can be found here:
- http://www.robertsmalls.org/
- http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=s000502
- http://www.teachingushistory.org/lessons/Smalls.html
SN: I found a lot of people from the
way of Buffalo and Syracuse at this event, it was interesting to interact with
them and people from the New York area, made me feel like home!
Aaisha Haykal
IMLS Fellow
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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