I’ve just returned to the library after a wonderful trip abroad and am embarking on a new stage of my work in the Archives & Special Collections. While I’ve previously been editing and writing articles for Wikipedia based on our holdings and adding links to our collections when appropriate, today I’m going to begin to process my first archival collection! Essentially, this means I will be sifting through a collection that hasn’t yet been processed and I will help to organize and describe it. While I’ve learned a lot about both Wikipedia, and our holdings in the Archives & Special Collections over the last few weeks, I’m excited to be starting this new project and to learn a bit more about archival work!
Happy almost -Fourth of July!
Washingtonians having some summer fun in the Sound, circa 1905, from the John M. Canse Pamphlet collection.
By: Kara E. Flynn