New year, new projects

It's the first full week of new semester at Warren Wilson.  The Archives now has a new student archivist, since Max graduated and left in the spring.  Amanda is a sophomore who worked on the library circulation crew.  She's picking up the photograph rehousing project started by Max; that job is a little more than half-finished.  She's also going to be doing data entry for uploading photos to the Digital Library of Appalachia and is learning how to scan images.

Speaking of scanning, IT services will be giving Archives its dedicated slide scanner sometime soon.  This will be a great addition as the Microtek 800 is fine for photos, it's not so hot for slides.  The Archives will become slide scanning central for the college community.  But not yet...

The other project that will consume a lot of time, especially for me, will be the reorganization and inventory of the Ben Holden presidential papers.  I've started some processing of this important collection, mostly in response to students looking for records to document papers from the 1970s & 80s.  This huge collection needs the work, but it may be some time before  I can finish.  Many, many more things are in the way.

No word yet on the integration of Archon and Archivists' Toolkit softwares.  Still waiting for this blessed event to occur so that archives can use ONE ultimate archival database.  Won't that be fun?