Although it is my last week at my internship, I still have a lot to keep me busy. As I mentioned in my last blog post, I have started to move on to organizing different kinds of things and more taking my own direction in the way I organize them. I have a lot of miscellaneous documents that need homes and classification. I have been working mostly with things that have already been somewhat organized, therefore I really didn’t have to read through every piece of paper to figure out what it pertained to. Now, with this portion of my project it is up to me to read through each document and determine where it should belong. I really have had to put myself in a future researchers shoes that will be viewing the collection I am working on to figure out the best way to organize all this information. I am trying to think about the researchers and historians in the future that will need to look through these documents, therefore I am trying to label and organize everything in a way that will be easy to navigate and find information. I am working now with a lot more of the documentation of internal happenings within the foundation, making files for things such as annual board meetings, treasurers report, and (more) correspondence among many other things. Before I was largely handling documentation on historic sites the foundation has preserved. I have gotten a lot better at having a system of things, so that makes me a lot more efficient. I have attached pictures of the rest of the documents I have left to organize and the kind of files I am organizing them into. It is kind of like doing a big puzzle and every little thing fits into a certain place. Sometimes its easier to tell and sometimes its harder to tell what should belong where, but when I am in doubt I just make a separate file for it. I am almost 100% confident that I can finish all of the organization of this collection in my last week at the foundation. I am super happy with my progress so far!
