The last month of my internship has been more of the same. I have continued to go between the collections in Center in the Square and the O. Winston Link museum, adding items and collections to PastPerfect in both locations. I have made a few discoveries, one of which being, I despise scrapbooks. I had scan and deconstruct three old scrapbooks from a local sorority and it was a tedious and stressful job. One of the scrapbooks had metallic pages which caused some of the old newspaper articles to rip and be discarded. I learned that this is exactly why scrapbooks are scanned first, so that anything destroyed in the deconstruction can be viewed online.
The most exciting job I’ve had in the past month was accessioning a collection of old books from the Watts collection. I had a true history geek moment when I looked at the dates of publication: the newest was published in 1922 and the oldest were a four volume set of poems published in 1778. I had the honor of handling books published just two years after our nation was born and the weight of it was not lost on me. While I still had the tedious job of entering the books into the PastPerfect system, I had a better appreciation for the content I was entering. The books were in pretty great shape for their age and it isn’t every day that you get to hold four books that are 239 years old. 
