Amanda J. Carter: Week 8 (October 22 – October 26)@ Fisk University

William McKissack Papers

This week I continued to work on the College Hill project series of the McKissack Papers.  I am currently arranging the various accounts associated with the construction of College Hill such as the lumber, concrete, and plumbing businesses that were used for the construction.  I am arranging this section alphabetically according to the name of the company and then chronologically within the folders.  There are many, many staples that need removing so this portion of the subseries is somewhat slow although I continue to make progress.

Challenges

Now that I have determined how I will arrange the account files, the challenge here is to continue at a steady pace while picking through the plethora of boxes that contain the information on these accounts.  Another minor challenge is determining what to name the folder that will inevitably contain some information on accounts that were only charged once or twice.  Should this information still get its own folder although there may be one sheet of paper or should it go in a separate file with others?  If they should go in the same folder, is “General” or “Miscellaneous” an appropriate title for that folder even though both labels do not quite describe the contents?  I have decided to wait until I finish this section to determine how much of this type of information is contained within the files at which point I should have a better understanding of how to make the information more accessible.

Until next week…

Amanda J. Carter
Franklin Library, Fisk University
IMLS HistoryMakers Fellow 2012-2013

Ardra Whitney: Week 7 @ Avery Research Center

 

You know you’re a nerd when you get excited about the opportunity to gaze at the stars. I can’t wait until next month when the Physics and Astronomy department at the College of Charleston holds an open house at the Rita Liddy Hollings Science Center. The center has a 16-in telescope in its rooftop observatory and an observing deck with smaller telescopes, which will be available for public use on the third Friday in November. Additionally, the open house will also feature fun activities and demonstrations (indoor and outdoor) in rooms on the first floor of the science building.

 

Monday, October 15^th and Tuesday, October 16^th:

I met with Processing Archivist, Georgette Mayo and Manager of Archival Services, Aaron Spelbring to review questions I had about general collections processing at Avery, as well as specific questions related to processing the W. Melvin Brown, Jr. Papers and Edwina Harleston Whitlock Papers (e.g., restricting confidential materials, finding aid preparation and collection arrangement). I also began developing a series arrangement, biographical note and scope and content note for the Edwina Harleston Whitlock Papers. During my meeting with Ms. Mayo on Tuesday, I learned that she served as co-director of the South Carolina Archival Association.

 

Wednesday, October 17^th:

I completed evaluating part two of Debra Lee’s video oral history interview and participated in The HistoryMakers 2012-2013 IMLS Fellowship Professional Development Conference Call with Andrea Jackson, Head of the Archives Research Center at the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Atlanta University Center. Ms. Jackson spoke about her experiences in the archival profession, including the challenges and changes she’s encountered in the field over the years. I asked questions about her collaborations with other archivists and archives, as well as her participation in conferences, panels and public/outreach programs.

 

Thursday, October 18^th:

I followed up with Ms. Jackson via e-mail and asked her if she would contribute a quote to the American Archives Month social media campaign at Avery.

 

Friday, October 19^th:

I worked with Reference Librarian, Deborah Wright in Avery’s reading room, where I completed scanning the scrapbook from the W. Melvin Brown, Jr. Papers and transferred those images to the Z: Drive. Public Historian, Robert T. Chase also stopped by and asked me to digitize images from Avery’s Black Power Conference taken by Imam Hakim Abdul – Ali. In addition, Ms. Wright, Ms. Mayo, and myself worked together to generate Facebook posts for the American Archives Month celebration at Avery and launch the center’s new YouTube channel: AveryResearchLive.

Amanda J. Carter: Week 7 (October 15 – October 19)@ Fisk University

William McKissack Papers

This week I have been working on the College Hill project series of the McKissack Papers.  It is a very large section that includes invoices, receipts, payroll information, correspondence, and specifications.  I was able to get through a few boxes, but I still have a ways to go.  I am hoping to finish this before Christmas break.  However, my original schedule gives me some extra time to work on it in January, so I am not too concerned.  Hopefully, there will not be many snags.

Challenges

The challenge within this section is in determining the best way to organize the account files (receipts and invoices).  There are many, many accounts.  I am debating on whether or not I should make a folder for each business or make a folder for each type of business (i.e. concrete, lumber, etc.).  At this point I may move forward with folders for each business since there seems to be an adequate amount of information for each one. 

Interesting Finds   

So far in this series, all I have seen are basic business records.  There is some correspondence with the Federal Housing Authority that may be helpful to someone interested in researching the housing development process of the 1950s.   

Society of Tennessee Archivists Conference           

Our state archival society, Society of Tennessee Archivists, had its annual meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, from October 15 through October 17.  I attended the main sessions on October 16 and thoroughly enjoyed it.   I learned about the difficulties in preserving and digitizing old film, issues with copyrighted photographs found in a collection, and the history of the Tennessee Historical Society.  Since I can never pass up a good tour, I opted for the downtown Knoxville Civil War tour instead of the student panel which I had participated in last year.  The tour was as fascinating as Knoxville’s unique and historic combination of Confederate and Union leanings.   It was really great to see everyone that I had seen last year.  Conferences, especially regional ones, are excellent sources of networking and keeping in contact with peers.  It was worth the drive to East Tennessee.

Until next week…

Amanda J. Carter
Franklin Library, Fisk University
IMLS HistoryMakers Fellow 2012-2013

Chaitra Powell: Week 7 @ The Mayme Clayton Library and Museum

During my seventh week at the Mayme Clayton, I trained five volunteers on the processing of Mayme’s papers, participated in an interesting professional development call with Andrea Jackson, and attended a presentation at the ONE archives on campus at the University of Southern California.

My goal for incorporating volunteers into the workflow of processing of Mayme’s papers has been fully realized. Most of the volunteers do not seem too enthusiastic until I show them my workspace in the judge’s chambers and they see Mayme’s grit and determination demonstrated in her writings and correspondence. The unopened boxes are lined up against the east wall, my sorting shelves are adjacent on the north wall and the tables full of labeled folders are on the tables in the middle of the room.  I show them my organizational schema and indicate where each series is located. I explain any quirks about the series. For instance, in the Western States Black Research Consortium series, I have a Research subseries which corresponds to the topic any academic articles that we come across in the collection. For example, there is a folder title, “Research Project: Lynching”, it is full of photocopies and articles about lynching. I imagine that Mayme was gathering information for a researcher and these are the copies that she kept for her collection. I also have research project folders for Africa, Black Religion, Paul Robeson and Frederick Douglass. I give the volunteers a short stack of materials and they file them away using the schema as their guide. I check in periodically and deal with their “unsure” piles. At this rate, I anticipate getting through the remaining 135 boxes well before the end of May 2013.

On Thursday, the fellows had the pleasure of discussing the field of archives with Andrea Jackson of the Atlanta University Center. Ms. Jackson was seated at my table during The HistoryMakers reception at San Diego, but we did not get to talk too much. I did tell her that I loved her hair. At any rate, a 90 minute session with her was very informative for me. She discussed her evolving role from processing archivist to director of archives and how she is always looking for ways to grow. She said that she was blessed in her career, but I also believe that her success has a direct correlation with the leadership that she demonstrated in professional organizations. Our conversation re-ignited my idea to contribute to SAA publications and become more involved in professional organizations. I am also planning to look at the professional development book that she referenced, “Strength Finders, 2.0”. I had seen it for sale at The University of Chicago bookstore when I worked there earlier this year, but I had never heard such sincere praise of the book. Ms. Jackson told us about the TuPac Shakur conference that she helped organize earlier this year, and I admire the way that she has been able to integrate her personal interest into her professional activities. I had a few questions for Ms. Jackson that I was not able to ask during the course of the call, but I did follow up with her via email. I asked her about her experience with Archivist Toolkit, the importance of being a certified archivist, and which elements of a collection she considered when designing her online exhibits. I will share with the group as soon as she responds.  

On Sunday, I was invited by one of our donors to the ONE Archives for their monthly outreach program. ONE is a gay and lesbian archive that is national in scope and contains the world’s largest queer history collection.  The program was a book talk from Michael Kearns, a famous stage and television actor in California. His book, “The Truth is Bad Enough” told about his salacious affairs, his career, his adopted daughter and his life as an HIV positive gay man in Hollywood. The readings and commentary were very engaging and I toured the archive after his presentation. The place reminded me of the MCLM because they are operating in a non-traditional space and focusing on an often marginalized population. I think that their programming calendar and creative ways of de-accessioning books could be incorporated at MCLM. I had a nice time in their archive space and I would definitely be visiting again. This profession is amazing in its breadth and diversity; it really boggles my mind at times.

Amanda J. Carter: Week 6 (October 8 – October 12)@ Fisk University

William McKissack Papers

I finally finished the Correspondence series before Fall Break began on Thursday.  While I stayed late to finish ironing out the arrangement, I had to wait until Monday to add the dates to the folders and to record the folder list and series scope and contents note.  The series is now divided into Personal and Business and then further divided into folders by department or organization.  A few folders are labeled by topic or name such as Insurance and Moses McKissack III.  It will be interesting to see how the layout of this finding aid appears by the time I finish the collection.  While I have had Correspondence series before, the small amount in this collection (two boxes) suggests that it might be more fruitful to include a Correspondence subseries within the other series rather than a whole series dedicated to correspondence.  However, most of the collections here have a Correspondence series so there has been a type of standard established.  I always tend to consider my finding aid preliminary until completed, so the layout may be altered at a later date.

Challenges

The biggest challenge when dealing with correspondence is in determining exactly how it should be filed.  I was taught to avoid “Miscellaneous” if at all possible, but then how much more clear is “General”?  After working with the 1716 boxes of the Estes Kefauver collection during my assistantship in graduate school and seeing multiple “General” and “Miscellaneous” folders, I began using “General” as a label for folders when it pertained directly to the series itself and therefore needed no further clarification.  I still try to avoid “Miscellaneous”.  Moving forward with that definition of general in mind has helped me greatly when determining what, if anything, should be placed in a folder labeled “General”. 

Another challenge is determining when folders of correspondence should be pulled and placed in other series.  It has already been suggested and agreed that this will happen, although I can see where confusion could arise since a researcher might expect to find all correspondence within a correspondence series.  However, I rest assured knowing that as long as the scope and content notes are readily available to explain the organizational structure then the collection will remain accessible many years into the future. 

Interesting Finds

There were many unopened pieces of mail in this collection.  I was considering an “Unopened Mail” folder but it was suggested I go ahead and open the mail and divide it into its respective folders.  It is a unique experience to open mail that has been sealed for half a century.  While all of the mail were copies of mail already opened, including bills or tax return notices, one of those letters held an interesting piece of advertisement.  It was a poster from the Social Security Administration reminding people to “Hold onto your social security card …” since it is needed for employment.  The poster notes that it takes time to replace the cards and then claims that the nearly two million cards replaced the previous (unknown) year cost the government the equivalent of 550 jeeps.  Due to the comment about the jeeps, my guess is that it is early to mid-1940s.  While I have seen World War II era posters on issues such as supporting the troops, I have never seen a poster reminding everyone to keep their social security card handy in order to save the government money. 

Oral History Evaluations           

With Fall Break landing on Thursday and Friday, I finally had the opportunity to get back to evaluating oral histories.  I completed David Lattin’s video oral history interview.  He was a basketball player on the Texas Western team who was the first team to start all African Americans during the 1966 NCAA Championship game with Kentucky.  Lattin went on to play professionally in the NBA, ABA, and with the Harlem Globetrotters before finishing a degree in business administration.  It was an interesting interview that taught me more about sports, specifically basketball, than I had previously known. 

Until next week…

Amanda J. Carter
Franklin Library, Fisk University
IMLS HistoryMakers Fellow 2012-2013

Chaitra Powell: Week 6 @ The Mayme Clayton Library and Museum

During the sixth week at The HistoryMakers, I had to take a few days off, we hosted 15 volunteers from the Southern Edison Company, and I worked on a database comparison project. 

This week at work was marked by my unexpected absence. On Saturday evening, I had to go to Tucson, Arizona to be with my family because my father was in the hospital. The drive was about 8 hours and I had a lot of time to reflect on what is really important in life. I have built my little world, ranked my priorities, and behaved according to my personal constitution. All of this gives me an artificial sense of control, when it just takes a simple phone call, and the entire house of cards falls down. I’m not trying to give up my commitments and study the meaning of life but I do want to remember to retain the double consciousness when I am getting frustrated with e-mail strings, project deadlines, and incompatible communication styles. These things matter but the really smart people remember that other things matter more. I appreciate the understanding and compassion from my colleagues at The HistoryMakers and The Mayme Clayton Library and Museum as I stepped away from my role as a fellow for a few days. I came back to work on Thursday, and I am steadily taking on the back log, one step at a time.

On Thursday, Cara and I went over the list of potential tasks for the Southern California Edison group. We were expecting 40 people and Larry had mandated that we utilize them effectively, assigning them the type of work that moves our collection forward. On the morning of the event, we had 15 people show up and a third of them were children with their parents. Cara set one little girl and her mother to work describing the dolls in one of our collections. I took the other four girls and two adults to help me with the book collection and Mayme’s papers. I had the two elementary school aged girls pull the books that were published before 1945 out of our duplicates. They have a value that can be exploited as we de-accession materials from the collection. The two middle school aged girls sorted Mayme’s rolodex and business cards alphabetically and made folders for the “contacts” subseries in the collection. I had the two adults helping me with filing the materials that I had already sorted from the collection. Everyone did an amazing job and helped me to cross those items off of my “to-do” list. We had discussions about the importance of archives and the future of the MCLM; it felt nice to enable other people to be a part of the maintenance of this re-emerging institution.   

The Mayme Clayton Library and Museum currently uses the Cuadra Star database software. The institution originally contracted the software for free, but when the company came under new management, MCLM was essentially priced out of using the software effectively. We have negotiated a deal that allows us to access our materials on a reduced scale for a limited time or until we figure out something else. Alyss had done research on different databases and made recommendations before she left and I have been asked to follow up on it. I have worked with various databases in my past but I have never been involved in an implementation. My immediate thought with the budget constrictions would be an open source software like Archon or Archivists’ Toolkit, but do we have the technological expertise or system requirements to set it up? In between the processing of Mayme’s papers, the managing of volunteers, I am researching the feasibility of various database software packages.       

Ardra Whitney: Week 6 @ Avery Research Center

(A motivational tune from my collections processing playlist)

Monday, October 8^th and Tuesday, October 9^th: On Monday morning, I met with Processing Archivist, Georgette Mayo and Manager of Archival Services, Aaron Spelbring to discuss archival staff updates. We’ve decided to do a mini social media campaign to celebrate American Archives Month, so I’m excited about the opportunity to highlight collections as well as archivists’ contributions at Avery. On Tuesday, I continued surveying the Edwina Harleston Whitlock Papers. I really enjoyed looking through all the birthday and holiday cards she received near the end of her life and was particularly touched by the ones from her children and granddaughter, Allison—who wrote to wish her grandmother a happy birthday and thank Harleston for convincing her to go to Howard University.
 

Wednesday, October 10^th: At noon, I took part in a conference call with The HistoryMakers’ Executive Director, Julieanna Richardson, Program Coordinator, Y’hoshua Murray and IMLS Fellows. Each of the fellows reported on the following: survey of completed work, status of archival processing, interview evaluations completed, participation in planned presentations and public/outreach programs. After the conference, I began learning about Avery Research Center’s reference room procedures from Reference Librarian, Deborah Wright. I also asked her about future participation in her preparation of the Avery Messenger (the Center’s seasonal newsletter). I also worked with Ms. Wright and Education Coordinator, Shelia Harell-Roye to post a photo album on Avery’s Facebook page of images from the Moja Arts Festival: 2012 Community Tribute Luncheon (featuring Education Honoree, Bernard E. Powers, Jr., Ph.D.)
 

Thursday, October 11^th and Friday, October 12^th: On Thursday, I began evaluating part two of Debra Lee’s video oral history interview. I am learning about her transition from a clerkship with the Honorable Judge Barrington Parker in Washington D.C. to an associate position with the law firm Steptoe & Johnson to her first years at BET, as the chief lawyer of the company’s legal department. By Friday, I had completed my survey of the Edwina Harleston Whitlock Papers. I also began winding down my work on the W. Melvin Brown, Jr. Papers: finalizing the collection’s arrangement and revising its corresponding processing proposal/finding aid draft. I spent the morning removing wooden backings from the award plaques in the collection and started digitizing a scrapbook belonging to the collection as well. In addition, I was invited to speak, along with Ms. Wright and Mr. Spelbring, to CofC students visiting Avery as part of a Charleston Archival Crawl event. Ms. Wright provided students with an overview of the institution’s history and reference room procedures. I chimed in with mentioning the importance of having researchers fill out an intake form and performing a reference interview in order for the reference librarian to get a better sense of the kinds of information the researcher is looking for (as well as for security purposes), while Mr. Spelbring answered specific questions the students had and told them about using the Lowcountry Digital Library for their research.

Week End: Alex Champion's Weeks 4-5

It was an eventful weekend outside of The Maryland State Archives. My research exercises continued as I explored the databases and scanned records used by the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland team—meaning nothing new to report on that front. 

Back to School—Three Legged Stool

On Friday the 28^th I participated in the Third annual Back to School program coordinated by The HistoryMakers and arranged by 211 schools in the United States. Back to School is the most expansive and, seasonally, intensive activity The HistoryMakers conducts. Several staffers are employed year round in coordinating much of the work but the entire office pitches in during the frenzied, carnival like atmosphere in the final days. All persons (no matter their job description) confirm commitments, conduct coordinating conference calls, and prepare materials for every participating school and every participating HistoryMaker speaking there.  

Back to School is one of three legs on the THM stool. The second leg is the “An Evening With” series, which is the primary fundraising activity. Our fellowship, with few exceptions, is concerned with interviews and programming records processing—the third leg; our perspective on what THM does is therefore skewed. Although the two THM fellows from the program’s first year were involved in the implementation of BTS, the fellows in the field joined the HistoryMakers in the area and represented THM. Julieanna passionately believes in the archives but within the greater context of THM’s purpose to educate and preserve. I chose to emphasize these goals in my remarks.

I arrived at Annapolis High School around 7:30 and was shocked by several aspects of the school almost immediately. Although the school looked no bigger than my own High School, it had a business manager, security guard, mandatory student ID lanyards, and a visitor check in policy that scanned my driver license image onto a sticker; I couldn’t even keep the sticker as a memento since my surrendering of it qualified as a check out.

Because a couple hundred of the ninth graders were on a field trip, only a few hundred were at the assembly. Eugene Whiting, the ninth grade principal, and an interested Junior girl opened the assembly and introduced me. I was floored to see how young these Freshmen seemed. Although the majority of the students were listening or, at the very least, not talking during my remarks, a large minority engaged in a novel disruptive activity: They clapped. They clapped when I came to the podium, they clapped when I said hello, they clapped when I began my remarks, and they clapped two separate instances when I finished.

Carl Snowden addresses 300 freshman

These same students were more respectful to the HistoryMakers.  Chief Judge Robert M. Bell of the Maryland Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state, and Carl Snowden, the director of the Office for Civil Rights in the Attorney General’s office, knew each other from way back despite their generational difference. Upon meeting them in the conference room, I was first struck with their immaculate dress. Judge Bell, in his late 60s, was dressed conservatively with a tan two piece suit, matching shoes, and a well groomed moustache but nevertheless gave it a flair with a gingham shirt and matching pocket square, which were complimented by his expertly knotted bow tie. Although long removed from his native North Carolina, Judge Bell oozed southern gentleman even as he playfully teased Mr. Snowden into speaking first. Carl Snowden is less than ten years younger than Judge Bell but dressed in a contemporary gray blue suit and tie.





Excuse the blur: I didn't want the flash to
detract from Judge Bell's remarks.

Since both men are veteran public speakers and celebrities of a sort, they held the ninth graders’ attentions better and longer than I was able. They used entertaining and edifying anecdotes from their own lives or others to emphasize the importance of education. The assembly broke after all students recited The HistoryMakers “Commit” pledge. After a brief return to the conference room we dropped in on very different classes: The first was IB World History and the second was Theory of Knowledge. Our minders, for reasons I will not attempt to fathom, emphasized the audience differences between the courses. The World History course was ostensibly for tenth graders on the International Baccalaureate track but was “mixed” with Juniors and Seniors. Judge Bell and Mr. Snowden employed several well rehearsed scripts but also coolly and thoughtfully replied to repeated questions about the death penalty. Despite Annapolis’ demographics I was shocked to see only one white student. A couple of them had visible tattoos.

The Theory of Knowledge class was, as I expect is the case everywhere, composed of ambitious seniors. Although Judge Bell and Mr. Snowden again performed well, the students were somewhat intrigued by me since I admitted to taking ToK exactly 10 years ago. I was a professional, of what it probably didn’t matter, with recent college experiences right at the time they were applying to colleges. The teacher used one of my remarks about archives and the integrity of information to discuss information literacy. Using an anecdote of my own, I explained how significantly the Internet changed the information universe during the course of my lifetime. I emphasized the importance of primary documents, meaningful research and critical thinking beyond simple verification, reading or listening to diverse sources, following fact checking organizations that resist the media tendency to create false equivalence, be suspicious of free information, and consider the motives of news givers.

We Are All Kunta Kinte

The Saturday following Back to School was largely devoted to representing the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland project at the Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival by the City Dock in the Historic Downtown of Annapolis. On this, the 25^th anniversary of the festival, me and two other LOSIM research archivists talked about the project, explored the various applications on website with interested parties, and made several contacts with members of the media or with teachers.

We were working with new display materials, which required significant troubleshooting because of our small table and Mother Nature. The wind played tricks with our poster display easel, our tiny easels for mounted want ad reproductions, and every piece of literature we had; it felt as if the entire project could be hurled into Ego Alley with the dozens of yachts. By the time my morning shift was over the booth expanded to an unused adjacent, our vulnerable displays were taped down, and our tiny table became a demonstration zone for the database.

A very poignant moment took place at the end of my shift. A speaker, whom I could not name or see because of an obstruction, reminded everyone about the historical context. “It’s important to remember where we are,” she began. “Here at the City Dock where people sit and watch boats in the bay, slaves were brought for sale.” In fact, it was exactly 245 years since the published arrival of the slave ship Lord Ligonier, which Kunta Kinte was allegedly aboard, and advertisement for the slave auction to follow.

Chaitra Powell: Week 5 @ The Mayme Clayton Library and Museum

During my fifth week at the Mayme Clayton Library and Museum I had an informative staff meeting, met a brand new volunteer and presented at the monthly volunteer meeting.

On Thursday morning, I sat down with Cara, Larry and Gil to discuss the happenings at the MCLM. I was pleased to hear the first agenda item was ordering business cards for me, setting up my e-mail account and issuing me a key to the building. All of these items go a long way in trusting me with the access to this collection, and I am very excited about it. MCLM is a great place to work because I have autonomy and freedom. If someone calls in and asks about a donation, all of a sudden I am in charge of collections development. If a volunteer is looking for a project, I’ll serve as the volunteer coordinator and get them into a task that best suits their interests. The hats that I wear are endless. Having an email account and business cards will give me the confidence to keep moving forward in this capacity.

Also, at this staff meeting, Larry and I had a serious conversation about archival vocabulary. We disagreed on the meaning of appraisal and de-accession. He could not see appraisal as more than a monetary analysis and he assumed that de-accession meant to dispose of. When I meant appraisal as evaluating the relevance of the materials compared to the collection goals and de-accession as in remove for any number of reasons, not destroy. The exchange taught me a valuable lesson in communication skills. If someone does not understand me, I should ask if we are assigning the same meaning to particular words. Some miscommunications can easily be solved in this manner.

On Friday afternoon, my first volunteer for the Mayme Clayton Papers processing project came in for an orientation. Zinnia is a freshman at the local community college and she is studying history. Similar to me at that stage, she was wondering what she would be able to do with a liberal arts degree after college. Of course I expounded on the joys of archival science, but assured her that she would figure it out soon enough. In the meantime, she had just the right temperament and attitude to help me go through Mayme’s boxes. Zinnia will be spending four hours, every Friday helping me with the collection. I am looking forward to getting to know her better.

On Saturday morning, I came to work prepared to address twenty of our faithful volunteers as well as some members of the MCLM board. I prepared a Power Point presentation with a few slides to keep me on track while I was talking. I talked about how to pronounce my name, where I am from, my academic background, and my interest in archives. I told them about archival methodology and how I would need their help with arrangement and description, also known as making folders. I talked about Mayme’s papers and the organizational schema that I had crafted. It was all very impressive. At the end, I asked for them to sign up…six people did. That is six more than I had before and I will be following up with them next week. I’m very comfortable in my role as a supervisor because I have done exactly what I am asking them to do. In fact, I am continuing to sort and make folders in every spare moment that I can find. I had heard about how phenomenal the MCLM volunteers are and I do not think that I will be disappointed.