Yearbooks

Time: 9 AM to 12:15 PM
Hours: 3 and 15 minutes

I really enjoyed myself today. The archival room will be getting new (higher) shelving to make more room for materials, mainly more room for the Dornish collection. I'm amazed at the amount of books he collected over the years. It makes me think about my own book collection, how at this point I really need to stop buying books because I have no more room for them. Yet that still might not stop me.

After I finished with the Dornish collection, Sue gave me two more jobs that I could alternate between so I wouldn't get too bored. One of them was to sort book slips into different categories. The slips had the title, a brief summary and the Dewey and Library of Congress classifications on them. Most of them ended up in the fine arts category.

My other job coincides with getting ready for the new shelves. My task was to look through all the old Keystonia yearbooks and mark the ones that had writing in them or weren't in pristine condition. The first yearbook was from 1912. I loved to see how different the campus was then compared to now. I found it fascinating and thought that working in Archives wouldn't be a bad thing at all. I like history so this was a stimulating task for me.