I feel like I haven't gotten enough done this month. It's very frustrating having an odd working space that involves sitting on the floor to standing, to sitting at the computer. It was easier to catalog at a desk with a dedicated computer, and items on a book truck.
The student workers though are helpful in determining what I should consider putting in the file folders that I want to weed. It can be hard for me to tell. There are so many old clippings from magazines, and I don't know enough about architecture to be able to tell if the clipping should be copied onto acid free paper and archived, or just weeded.
That is probably going to be the biggest headache of this collection. All of these items were important enough for somebody not to throw away-- but, then were donated to a library, and not a special collections or archives department. So, it's a special collection that will be held and used by students.
I wonder if the easiest thing to do would be to separate some of these papers, and write a finding aide for them that could go into the drawer in a notebook?
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