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~Daily Journal~ Week 15

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December 10, 2012: Final finding aid SCC, DAM and blog post. 4 hours

Today is my last day at the Burke.  I am going to miss it.  I loved organizing and labeling, the research and even the dust.  My finding aid for SCC was reviewed by Brigette and Ruth and I was able to do all the final DAM before leaving.  My last (hopefully not forever) collection is officially up on the website.  Twitter and Facebook feeds were updated and I will re-tweet and re-post to my own personal accounts when I get home.  I completed a wrap up blog post and then had my final evaluation and review with Brigette.  I did have one major mistake to correct today… I typed up the wrong date on my labels for the boxes and got to use typewriter correction fluid from 1994 to fix it.  Yay! for archives and the things they save!

State Council of Churches Records, 1943-1974

CLIO record

Final blog post

Total hours: 4

Final total: 138

~Daily Journal~ Week 12

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November 19, 2012: FCC history, scope and content.  Final finding aid submitted. 5 hours

I worked on the final draft of the finding aid for the FCC (Federal Council of Churches).  I added the history and scope and content notes.  I submitted the draft to Brigette for review.

November 20, 2012: FCC labels and correct finding aid.  Inventory of SCC and research on history.  5 hours

I received the corrected copy of the finding aid back from Brigette.  I made the changes requested and resubmitted it.  Ruth Tonkiss is on vacation so I won’t be able to get her final approval until after Thanksgiving, when I return on Tuesday next week we should be able to do the DAM on the finding aid and get it up online.  Yay!  The most interesting stuff in this collection has to do with the Bethlehem Steel Strike of 1910 and the little bit of research I did on who seemed to be the owner of most of these papers; Rev. Rockland T. Homans.  I think I will focus my blog entry on these two things.  I labeled the boxes (which are just 3 small boxes)

Final home for the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Records (FCC).

I began the inventory on my next collection State Council of Churches.  It seems to mostly consist of bulletins from various state councils around the country.  Shouldn’t be too difficult to organize.  Amazingly I was able to complete the Work Plan and the Inventory.

November 25, 2012: Research on SCC.  2 hours

I brought home a couple of the books listed on my Work Plan and took some notes which I added to the bottom of the work plan.  I’ll use these notes to develop the history portion of the finding aid. Hopefully the finding aid can be completed tomorrow.  Then I can work on my FCC blog entry.

Total Hours: 12

Running Total: 119

~Daily Journal~ Week 11

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November 12, 2012: Organization of FCC materials, label folders, copy newsprint, etc..  5 hours

I began by labeling a large number of folders with the title WAB: Federal Council of Churches Records.  I then placed in the folders materials I found regarding each committee, commission, department, conference, meeting and sorted the members papers.  I copied newspaper articles, placed the originals in Mylar sleeves or envelopes.  After my initial sort, which included taking metal pins and paper clips that bound material together out, as well as trying to figure out where 6 or 7 loose papers seemed to fit.  I found where they went for all of them except one, which I still have no idea what it is supposed to go to, it’s a budget sheet from minutes of some sort, but there is no date or title included on the sheet.  Some of the materials were fragile and degrading.  Some of the materials were in pretty good condition.  I found some very interesting materials on the Bethlehem Steel Strike and some good newspaper articles on unity.  I got through creating the final sort for 1 full box

November 13, 2012: Final FCC sort, Finding aid completed except for History and scope and contents note.   5 hours

I finished my final sort and labeling of the folders today.  The final FCC collection rests in 3 boxes.  Since much of the material was originally scattered in random boxes and mislabeled or non-labeled folders it was difficult to maintain original order of the materials.  I sorted the commissions, departments, committees, conferences and meetings alphabetically (for the folders) and then by date (within the folders)  For the members papers I kept them in their original order as far as subject, but then ordered them by date as best I could within the folder.  There was one whole section for the Greenwich Conference on Church Union that was the conference’s papers all in a bound folder like thing.  That is the only thing that definitely kept its original order.  I moved the papers into 4 new folders with a photocopy of the title of the original bound folder.  Next week I will finish the history portion and scope and contents note and submit it to Brigette and Ruth for final approval and then do DAM and cataloging.  I might work on the history and blog post this weekend at home.   My final collection will be the State Council of Churches Records.

Total hours: 10

Running total: 107

~Daily Journal~ Week 8

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October 22, 2012: DAM ABC and Baba, Facebook and Twitter announcements.  Label ABC collection. Blog post Baba. Work plan FCC.  5 hours

I learned how to do Digital Asset Management (DAM) today it consists of  uploading my finding aid PDF to the web for ABC and Baba.  I had to use a variety of programs and steps to make sure that the finding aid is now available on the website.  This is the link to the ABC collection on the website (under the William Adams Brown section).  This is the link to the Baba collection on the website (under the Missionary Research Library Section 3 for South Asia).

The cataloging was done in Voyager, which is quite simple to use, but requires a double save for it to become actually available for viewing.  The cataloging info for ABC is now in CLIO and Baba is also in CLIO.

I also had to add the information to the Burke Library Archives Twitter page and Facebook page so that outside world knows that it is done.  Brigette showed me the admin side for an organization FB page which shows you who and where people are visiting the page from.  It records the viewing stats which is something that can be used to prove that you have readership for your collections and where those readers are from.  So I added a link to each of the collections finding aids and for the FB page I copied the abstract.

I can use the link to both the ABC PDF and the Baba PDF as  publications for my resume here and on my LinkedIn webpage.

I labeled and finished the ABC collection by printing labels and attaching them to the boxes.  I will do the same for Baba the next time I am in.

WAB: American Bilateral Conversations Records labeled and ready to be shelved in the Archive.

Worked on blog post for Baba, by taking more pictures of the Autobiography pages for quotes, but I haven’t written much for it.  I need to try to work on it at home.   After taking the pictures we took the book is ready to be wrapped and placed in a new folder.  We are going to use the same box and relabel it next time I’m in the library.

I began the work plan for WAB: Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America

October 23, 2012: Baba final prep and label. FCC research and submitted work plan.  5 hours

I spent the morning grabbing the extra FCC information from other unprocessed collections.  I continued to work on my work plan.  I added numerous sources that I need to use for research, I placed them on the work plan in the exact way they should show up on the finding aid, so it shouldn’t take so long to add them this time.  I submitted the work plan to Brigette.

I wrapped Baba in acid free unbuffered tissue paper and then tied it with cotton tape.  I then labeled a new folder and placed it into the old box and replaced the label on the side.  I then took ABC and Baba collections, the pamphlet I had used in my Baba research, placed them on wheeled shelves and with Brigette took them in the Archive to place them on the shelves.  We took photographs so that we know exactly what shelves they are on so we can update the excel file that contains the locations of the collections.  NOTE: I need to remember to ask Brigette if that was updated this week, so she can show me exactly what it looks like.  We also pulled the FCC folders that I found in other unprocessed collections or areas of the Archives.  NOTE:  I need to ask Brigette how to change the locations on the Excel file for those as well next week.  I spent some time going through those folders and box trying to get an idea of what was included in them and if they were really pertinent to the collection.

Total hours: 10

Running total: 84 1/2