It has been a very busy last week at RVPF trying to tie up loose ends and get some final organization done. Every day I have gotten a great amount done as I know this is my last week. Today my supervisor and I went through half of the folders I have completed (there are about 200 in total if I remember correctly, I will get more definite figures after my final day tomorrow) and alphabetized them, classified them by series and sub-series, and stuck them into their final resting boxes! That was extremely satisfying, because I got to throw away a lot of sticky notes with “?” on them. I was very grateful I did this with her because she knows a lot more about the sites I am making files for and we can work together on how to classify them so that a researcher would find what they were looking for with no problem. Tomorrow I will finish going through and organizing the rest of those files of documents that I have put together over my time at the foundation. I also plan to make a list of everything that will need attention still after my time comes to an end working on the collection for the foundation. I want to make exactly sure that I do everything I can up until the last minute, so I won’t know until tomorrow exactly how much I will be leaving for them to finish up, but with the way things went today, I do believe truly that I will have everything organized into files for them by the time I leave. About 35% of the file folders I have created, while organized by subject, have not yet had things like staples and paperclips attended to. I have mentioned in previous blog posts that I have to take care that the document it properly secured in a way that will preserve the paper over long periods of time and I also have to sort it chronologically. News clippings and photographs, as mentioned before, are also things that take up a lot of time to properly preserve and annotate. It is very time consuming, but I decided the best way to use my time over my last week was to make sure everything was organized into its series and sub-series and get all the piles and boxes of papers organized. I am almost there and really think I can achieve that goal by the time I leave tomorrow, only leaving them with the job of taking care of the paper and photograph preservation. It will be much easier once it is organized to go through, so that is what I have been doing. I attached a picture of the files I finished today and another picture of all the boxes that I have gotten rid of that had paper in them that I organized over my time here! 
It has been quite the week!