I didn’t actually make it in this week and instead worked from home due something that was eerily like food poisoning.
Cook your meats, kids. That’s all I’m going to say.
In lieu of onsite work I instead ended up in an internet click hole learning about ArchivesSpace and EAD. YouTube is truly a gift in terms of free education and learning; it’s pretty much how I entirely learned PhotoShop.
I also found a lot of other archival intern blogs and read through those as well as some more official blog posts from the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and amazingly enough, the American Pigeon Museum & Library (the latter of which I thought was a joke until I clicked it on and, well, joke’s on me now).
I also found that, when searching for “weird archives” videos on YouTube — thinking there’d have to be some with death masks, right? — you instead get a bunch of Archie videos which…makes no sense at all. Or, well…Archie’s one letter away from archive? Close enough? No?
Depending on how into social media WWPL is future interns could very well do some video posts about cool items from the collection or some “a day in the life” videos where they explain what they’re working on and why. I’ve noticed a lot of repositories are starting to do this to get some attention which definitely isn’t a bad thing; it’s a fun thing. I catches the eye and makes people want to physically pay a visit just to touch things.
Me most of all.
