Week 2: First Tabling Event! and Clerical Fun

Welcome back readers!

Another good week has come to pass, This week was quite eventful. On Wednesday we had our team meeting, we addressed the team member changes and did some metadata training. The metadata training was a great refresh for me from my experiences last semester. I have started taking every meeting as an opportunity to be a better team lead. It helps me to better answer questions my team might have. We had a brief conversation on professionalizing the skills we have or are learning. I found this to be incredibly beneficial especially in a world where the job market is not so forgiving.

    I stayed behind after this meeting to get more updates on what team VHP would be focusing on for the semester. I had decided early on that I wanted to get ahead on prep work so that everything would be ready for when processing time came. I will be working on folder creation for the team and more copy folders so that we can create and edit batches without endangering the original copies. Aside from this work I had the wonderful pleasure of attending my first tabling event of the semester at the Ladies Tea in the Lake Nona VA Medical Center. At this event we were able to promote what VHP does, it was a wonderful turn out where we spoke to many female veterans who felt it important to express their interest to tell their stories. I am looking forward to more interviews in the near future for these wonderful ladies and for all the networking connections that will also bring plenty more opportunities to conduct interviews at events we may be going to for the first time. I will edit this post later on with pictures from the event but unfortunately I have not received them yet.

Until Next Time.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 6: History Center Field Trip

Image
 Welcome Back Everybody!  As per the title suggests this week we had our field trip to the Orlando Regional History Center. We had a chance to talk to Jeremy Hileman the Assistant Curator and Cheyenne Stastyshyn the Public Programming Coordinator. We spoke with them about the varying functions of the museum what their day to day tasks look like and, even a deeper dive into the specifics of their job. I had no clue that part of curator duties was to also do oral history interviews. The Veterans History Project's main goal is to preserve the stories and oral histories of veterans. It was incredibly interesting to know that there is also a job function in museums that deals with this specific responsibility. I figured taking oral histories would be part of a marketing or promotional job function. The education team also surprised me with everything that they do. It's more than just field trip guides and learning opportunities being created for children. They also plan programs fo...
Read more

Week 12: Sending out Files and Story Day 2026!

 Welcome back everyone! This week's meeting covered everyones updates. At this point in time I have been working with my fellow interns on their folders and providing  guidance where I have been able to. So far we are still waiting to send out the batch for my completed veteran folder. We will be physically handing him a copy at the Story Day coming up on the 18th of April. As for future work I will be starting on organization of another folder before the semester comes to an end. Once story day comes around I will be taking charge on the scanning station to ensure that folder are set up for next semesters team. One of the biggest struggles of this semester has been not being able to find documents. Especially when there are so many hands working  on similar documents. I am hoping that by working on organization during the event, before anymore work is done it will minimize mistakes or the likelihood of items being misplaced.  Until Next Time!
Read more

Week 13: Story Day Plans and Showcase Planning

 Welcome back!      This Wednesday has been quite productive. During the meeting today we were able to flesh out the semifinal plans for the VHP Story Day that will be taking place on the 18th of April at the Beardall Senior Center. I have also completed my plans for manning the scanning station for the event. While actually being able to archive transcripts and other documents is important the most important step in the process is making sure that you actually have full access to the documents obtained during the oral interview process.  My hope is that future organization and transcription efforts will be made easier and more streamline so that we can hope to achieve more archived folders over the course of these short semesters. Sometime before story day I will be meeting with the team to talk about our plans for the showcase. Our team is quite small with only three members but i'm hoping this allows the others to talk about what has been fulfilling for them ...
Read more