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Volunteering at the Museum

 As I said before, yesterday was my second day being, essentially, a volunteer archivist. That's the fun part about these small museums, is you can do things like that without experience. I'm not sure why, but yesterday really wore me out. I'm going through boxes of someone's research, research he'd done in the mid to late 1900s to write a book, and I'm taking out primary sources as well as some copies and other secondary. I'm marking these in non acidic folders. Unfortunately, idk how I'm supposed to label them. I'm doing it like so: JDarst (to reference the writer who donated it postmortem) - abbr type (like TL for typed letter, LS for signed letter, D for documents, adding cc for Caron copy, etc). - Date - Occasional other relevant info.

The hard part is I'm stacking some of these things up because I'm not sure if they're related, so I don't want to risk separating them. Like letters to newspaper clippings, etc...

If the woman over me can get it all situated, then I'll scan it all and put it all in PastPerfect. I downloaded the program and started reading the manual so I can look like I know what I'm doing... I would really like to put labels on the folders and have everything separated into their own folders but I just don't have it in me to risk it... I really hope I'm doing it right. Or if I'm messing up, that I can fix it later.

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