Volunteer Projects

VOLUNTEER PROJECTS

Indiana State Library Digitization Intern, September - December 2017
- Scanned approximately three dozen objects in the library's special collections—early 20th century county atlases and Indiana law books from the first decade of its statehood—for a total of just over 2,000 individual images, and applied a naming scheme to all image files
- Uploaded image files into the library's digital asset management system, CONTENTdm, and entered metadata for each object
- Enhanced the metadata of previously uploaded objects to bring them into compliance with current standards
- Sample work (click to view):

Indiana State Museum Collections Intern, May - August 2017
- Created a shelf-by-shelf inventory of the museum's paper collections room
- Reorganized the paper collections based on the museum's standard subject headings and object types
- Corrected the locations of approximately 5,000 objects in the museum's collections management system, Mimsy XG
- Assisted the collections manager with packing, moving, and condition reporting on returning fine art loans

Samples from Inventory (click to enlarge)

Red cell: Box was eliminated by combining it with another box

Light purple cell: Box was given a new designation based on its new location

(Click image to enlarge)

Association of Midwest Museums Digitization Intern, October 2016 - August 2018
- Sorted, weeded, and arranged approximately a dozen boxes of documents in the organizational archives
- Scanned several hundred historical documents, including council meeting minutes, newsletters, and conference programs
- Worked in conjunction with another volunteer to create and present a poster at annual conference on our accomplishments and discoveries
- Generated social media content for AMM's website using scanned documents: "The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same", "Conferences of Chicago Past—Part I", and "Conferences of Chicago Past—Part II"