Heather Szafran
I never know where I’m gonna wind up when I get up in the morning; that’s half the fun of waking up, for sure. Sometimes that very phenomenon stretches over days, months years–forever, it seems–and it is through …
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The Capstone Internship: Ask and You Shall Receive
Rolande Duprey
At the outset, I wanted to find an internship doing something within corporate records management. I felt that I needed to know more about this aspect of archival work, and started ?shopping? for an internship with a corporation …
Meet the Archivist: Claudia Willett and the John Hay Library, Part V
Working in Archivists’ Toolkit (AT) was an exciting and challenging experience. Everything seemed final and definite once it was entered into its appropriate section. My supervisor talked me down off the ledge and helped me see this program as a …
Meet the Archivist: Claudia Willett and the John Hay Library, Part IV
Thinking that I had actually completed processing the collection was probably a little ridiculous because is processing ever really completed? Processing is one of the most time consuming duties that an archivists has. When you?re working within the scope of …
Meet the Archivist: Claudia Willett and the John Hay Library, Part III
It?s like professors plan these things. I have reached the point in processing the Michael Gizzi papers where I can start to construct the finding aid components, specifically the biographical note and the scope and content note. It just …
Meet the Archivist: Claudia Willett and the John Hay Library, Part II
Many of you probably remember taking LIS 438 or some version of an Introduction to Archives course. You never really get the satisfaction of practical application in a lecture; it really does take an internship to reiterate and reaffirm the …
Meet the Archivist: Claudia Willett and the John Hay Library, Part I
The Archivist
Hi! I?m Claudia and am currently in my first semester of the dual-degree program for archives management and history. I graduated this past May from Simmons College with a Bachelor of Arts in history and a minor in …