Week 3: Let's get to work!

 Welcome back everyone!


    This week was quite interesting for me, unfortunately due to important things happening at work I was unable to go on the field trip scheduled for Wednesday. Instead later in the afternoon I took the opportunity to start creating file folders for the Spring 2026 semester. Over the weekend I will also be creating batch folders for each interviewee from story day. These folders will serve as a location for myself and the other VHP team members to keep our work in order for future archival and ensure that everything has it's proper place. I love a good color coded organization, but I also love when I can see the efforts we've made come to fruition. Going into week 4 I will be getting starting on the processing of  documents for a story day event that took place back in November of 2025 some major work has to be done here but I am excited to have a one on one with my team and see what we can achieve. And hopefully we will have many more opportunities to continue transcription and processing work for future events. 

I am excited to get to do more transcription work this semester as well and I look forward to actually getting to function better as a team lead. I have felt some sense of overwhelm going into this role and a level of uncertainty. But I have started to feel more confident and will be take better measures to communicate with my team more. I have found a weakness in my leadership and it's that I don't know what is a fine line of over communication and not enough communication but I will jump that hurdle when I get there. My solution for this is to keep up with my weekly updates. 

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