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Weekly Practicum Log
The Special Collections, University of California Riverside -- Tour of stacks and a printshop -- The Reading Room rules -- Monitoring of environmental conditions in the main stack room: documenting temperature variations -- A research project on temperature and humidity (TH) dataloggers and environmental monitoring equipment -- A visual diary of the practicum -- Buddha's Hand.
Research of TH dataloggers and literature about environment monitoring for libraries and archives: on-line resources -- A tour of the Special Collections for the students in SLIS program: initial inquiry -- Meeting with Chuck Wilson, the UCR archivist -- Archival assignment: the Anne McCaffrey Papers -- A tour of the Special Collections Archives -- Review of available collection acquisition documentation -- Previous processing information: typed box list of a part of the collection -- The report on dataloggers -- Technical preparation for the Authors Series: equipment testing.
:: Week 3
A Chinese bamboo book and other Asian curiosities -- The McCaffrey collection: initial research about Anne McCaffrey and her literary opus -- The Authors Series lecture: Margaret Nash -- A printing class: introduction to typesetting -- Preservation: straightening of papers by humidification -- A celebrating of the donation of the Ralph C. Michelsen and Roger Owen Archive -- The Single Leaf Registry.
Detailed log entry >>
:: Week 4
Development of fields and series structure for the McCaffrey collection -- Some assisting, but mostly photographing the printing class activities: advertising the Special Collections for the SLIS library tour -- Discussing possible dates for the library tour -- Preparation for processing of the McCaffrey collection.
:: Week 5
Approval of fields and series for the McCaffrey collection -- Building of an Access database -- Discussion about processing procedures for the collection: handwritten folder labels and data entry by fields.
:: Week 6
Lecture on book history -- Tibetan (?) movable type made of wood -- Donation of bookbinding tools to the Special Collections -- Beginning of processing of the McCaffrey collection.
:: Week 7
Processing of the McCaffrey collection: building of the data input form and drop-down lists tables -- Taking pictures of the printing class and a typesetting process, for the Rivera Library exhibit in the lobby -- Posting library tour announcements on the SLIS listserv.
:: Week 8
Processing of the McCaffrey collection: preservation issues -- Preservation and side effects of digitalization projects -- UC Southern Regional Library Storage Facility -- Inventory control of the collection: photographing Indian baskets from the Costo library room.
:: Week 9
Photographing Indian baskets from the Special Collections vault -- Creating a web page with information about the library tour on the LISSTEN web site.
:: Week 10
Processing of the McCaffrey collection: problem of preserving fading fax messages -- Cataloging diaries and journals.
:: Week 11
Discovery of my pictures of Chinese bamboo book on Wikipedia and implications for the Special Collections -- Web resources for preservation -- Processing of the McCaffrey collection: who is Anne Inez Johnson?
:: Week 12
Processing of McCaffrey collection: writing folder labels by hand -- The library tour for the SLIS students: books and printing.
:: Week 13
Photographing selected items from the Eaton Collection for an article in the Association of Research Libraries publication: problem of specifications about background, file format, color reference and lighting.
:: Week 14
Photographing items for B. Traven web site: problem of the poster in a frame -- Processing the McCaffrey collection: retention rules for duplicate documents and data entry detail for correspondence.
:: Week 15
Processing McCaffrey Collection: tying up loose ends -- Scanning of the Fujimoto family diaries with overhead scanner: problem of speed and accuracy -- Writing of the McCaffrey Papers Finding Aid: "series of book series" problem.
:: Week 16
Mini-practicum in the Preservation Services Department of the UCR Libraries -- Tour of the department -- A book spine repair: instructions vs. reality -- Sewing of pamphlet books -- Double-fan glue binding of university thesis -- Identifying books for the Special Collection -- What to do with a damaged book: decision making process.
Week 1: 1779 Encyclopedia, Special Collection, UCR, main stack room.
Week 2: Chuck Wilson and Eric Milenkiewicz testing equipment for video-taping the UCR Libraries' Author Series.
Week 3: Sun Tzu, The Art of War. Special Collections, UCR. A handwritten book on bamboo sticks, a modern version of an ancient Chinese book form.
Week 4: Sara Stilley, preservation & printing assistant, and Gwido Zlatkes, processing librarian, in the Special Collections printing workshop.
Week 6: 19th century movable type from Tibet made of wood. Special Collections, UCR.
Week 7: Photographing students in the Special Collection printing class, Winter quarter 2007.
Week 8: Pomo Sun Basket, the Costo Collection, Special Collections, UCR.
Week 10: From Journal for the use of midshipmen kept by G.V.B. Faulkner aboard HMS Victorious and Neptune, from August 2, 1914 to May 14, 1915. Special Collections, UCR.
Week 11: Tools of archivist in 21st century: laptop, MS Access and Melinex sleeves.
Week 12: The LISSTEN library tour of the Special Collections, UCR, March 23, 2007.
Week 13: Thomas Moore, Utopia. The Eaton Collection, Special Collections, UCR.
Week 15: Processed McCaffrey Papers collection. 503 folders in 66 boxes ... Special Collection Archives, UCR.
Week 16: A book spine repair. Gluing a book cloth to boards. Preservation Services Department, UCR Libraries.
Text, design, photographs and
digital imaging by Vlasta Radan.
Last update May 25, 2007.