Today was the most productive day so far, with 91 patient files processed. I'm hoping to up that number to 100 a day, since there are...

Today, I had another volunteer help me, this time in the morning. I already feel like we are moving a little faster by having more help....

First day of help from the volunteers! I started the day by finishing the alphabetization of the rest of the unprocessed boxes; I found...

You'll notice that today I didn't process as many patient files, and that's because I spent the afternoon getting prepped for volunteers...

Another eight hours completed for my practicum! Although I think I have started to even out with my processing speed, which is a little...

Last week, we didn't meet at the archives since the archivist was out sick, but I was back at it this week with my 11th day of my...

This week, I have a few quick things I want to write about. The first few are about archiving and preservation. To add to the whole tape...

I've slowly been speeding up my processing time, and today I processed 79 files (my fastest day yet!). That's about 10 per hour, so I'm...

Yesterday was day 8 of my practicum. This week was certainly not as exciting as last week's session, but here are my notes. I'm still...

This week, there were two major things I wanted to bring up; this is a long post, and it gets dramatic at the end, so buckle up. The...

My most productive day yet! I processed 70 patient files today, which is about double what I had been doing before. I'm now on box 5 and...

Day five is under my belt now! Processing work on the patient files continues, and although I had hoped to be moving faster by now,...

Back at my practicum today! I processed even more folders today, with a new record of 50 folders processed. I am definitely finding my...

After taking a small break due to last week's holiday, I was back at my practicum today for my third session. A little update: since I...

Week 2 was when I really started to work on what the archivist and I had brainstormed as one of my projects for the practicum: the...

For my Archives and Special Collections certificate, I need to complete an Archival Practicum, which involves working with an archive...

The second item I worked to preserve for my LIS 649 Final Project was an old book I picked up about 12 years ago, Songs of Lake Geneva...

A major aspect of archives is preservation and conservation. In order to keep materials available for future use, we need to be both...