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This past week I was given the opportunity to present my work to my department during our weekly meeting. Within this call I was able to identify why it is so important for us to collect Oral History, especially when working within an archive. I discussed everything seen on the slide above, as well as covering the specifics of our project over at Carilion.

This was also a sort of send off as this week will be my last with Carilion. I enjoyed all of it fully and I hope to see parts of my work, combined with the number of others who worked on the 125th, in the future. I cannot wait to see what wonderful histories are collected during this project, and I am so proud that I was able to be a part of it.

We had a new item enter the archive recently which I was able to help with. This was a nurses coat from the late 20th century. I worked together with my mentor to ensure that it was safely packaged and correctly documented. This coat will join our ever growing Carilion Archive thanks to a very generous donor.

This was the first non-paper item that I have helped place into an archive box and label so it was incredibly beneficial for me to learn how to do it hands on!

This Tuesday I spent time reading through old Newspapers so that I could prepare a timeline for Carilion Clinic in the 21st century. It feels odd calling a newspaper from the 2010s old, since I was actually alive for most of these events. The story I have open currently is about a man who went into caridac arrest while at a fitness class. This story goes on to discuss how important it is to have AEDs open for the public incase an accident like this ever happens. This was just one of the many stories about healthcare that makes up the rich history of Carilion Clinic!

In preparation for conducting an oral interview with the last president of the Jefferson College of Health Sciences. With around decades of history within these magazines I had a plethora of questions come up (most of which answered by another magazine), however from here I was able to start writing my questions for the oral history. From here I created a timeline of everything that I learned from the magazines and the scrapbooks that I previously looked at.