Bryan McDonough-John C. Hitt Library Internship

            On Monday, August 28 th , I began the second week of my internship. Processing the collection went on as it had last week. With me organizing the documents and being sure to remove the staples and to put the documents with personal information aside for deletion. It was during this day that I noticed the many differences between this collection and the collections I had worked with during my internship in the spring semester. The collection I had worked with previously were processed and the difference between processed and unprocessed collections are huge. A processed collection is easily accessible and the documents were uniform. The collection with the sermons contained documents clearly recording sermons and the collection containing the OMA meeting minutes possessed all of those organized by date. In Dr. Wendell Lawther’s collection, there is a semblance of organization. Folders are labeled but there are a few who are blank and sometimes t...

            On Monday, August 21 st , I first began my internship for the John C. Hitt Library’s Special Collections Department. I met my internship supervisor Mary Rubin and gave me information on how to navigate the archives room, use archival equipment and about the collection I would be processing.  The collection, composed of two boxes and a stack of booklets, belonged to Professor Wendell Lawther of the Public Affairs Department of the College of Health and Public Affairs who is now retired. Not only was he a professor but he was a director of the PHD program of the Public Affairs department and many of his documents explored the inner workings of this program through statistics and correspondence. These documents consisting of emails, letters, reports, and many other things are poorly organized and it is up to me to process everything. I was excited to do this because I have never processed a collection before. The previous collection I had exa...