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I am excited to announce that I am the recipient of a $500 scholarship from the Arkansas Museum Association to attend the Southeastern Museum Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee! I am super thrilled to have this opportunity!
A fellow friend and co-worker, Allison, who is the Director of Operations at the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum (the submarine) also received a scholarship! We will be combining forces to pay for the entire trip, and then some!
This is a wonderful opportunity to experience professional conferences as a graduate student. I will be able to attend workshop sessions, tours of Knoxville, and network. I am even able to have a sit down with professionals and have them look over my resume and give me advice! Thank you AMA!
Hello bloggers! Welcome to another addition of INVENTORY! As mundane as it sounds, its actually not as bad as it appears. This, I think, has to do with 1. I have only been doing this for a few months, and 2. I keep getting interrupted to do other tasks! So, while 8 hours doing inventory may seem like a lot, there are plenty of other fun, exciting things that I am doing in between actual “inventory” time.
For example: Did you know that they save each pen that President Clinton used when signing something into law? I sure didn’t! Many of these pens do get donated to friends or relatives, but we received a large package of them the other day. This means we need to go through the process of bringing them into our collection, or cataloging them. They are measured, analyzed and detailed and this information is put into the computer. Then we take a picture of them, package them up, and put them in their new home. This can take anywhere from one day to what seems like forever…but its a fun, step by step process. Stephanie has been helping me with this, so I have a buddy to tell jokes to.
I do love working with artifacts and actual items, so this isn’t without its thrills when we find a particularly interested item – like when we helped find purses for the new purse museum exhibit that is coming out downtown.
Sometime inventory is more than just taking items that are brought to the Library and cataloging them. We are also in the middle of our 10 year re-inventory plan, where we need to go through each object and verify that they are indeed what they say they are, that they are still in good order (or not!), and we also change their curatorial priority if need be. Curatorial priority is the significance of the item on a scale of 1-5, 1 being we want to start pulling the item out of our collection and 5 we would like to keep. (Its the difference between a regular pen that was donated from a Clinton fan, to a pen that was used by President Clinton himself.) We also need to reorganize the entire storage, since most of the items during the first inventory were just thrown haphazardly wherever they landed with not particular reason. Lastly, we need to take pictures of everything! Whew!
Keep checking back here for museum updates! It’s a wonderful world!
It’s be a wonderful few weeks as the graduate assistant at the Clinton Library. Stephanie, a fellow student in a few classes with me this semester, is my partner in crime during the middle of the week when I am scheduled at the library.
This semester has been packed full of events and things right off the bat! I am taking Historical Methods, Digital Archival Conservation (with Chad and Shannon!) and Introduction to Public History. In addition to this, I also am the Co-President/Vice President (basically we both wanted to be President, but he graduates early so we made a deal to share the duties so we can both get the experience) of Phi Alpha Theta National History Association Iota-Zeta chapter (UALR’s chapter)!! I am planning on volunteering as the representative for the public history program at the next Graduate Student Association meeting – which is a lot like student government, but for graduate students. I hope to keep busy, but understand that to succeed in the history world I need to set myself apart. This included leadership opportunities, learning how to create a budget for a group of people, and continued education beyond my university.
As for the graduate assistance, that too has been great. Every day it seems like I learn something new. The stuff we do is right up my alley. Inventory, while it may sound boring and I’m sure eventually I’ll hit a wall, is actually kind of exciting when you find an interested and exciting artifact. This is a lot of the same stuff that I did while interning at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in their offsite location, so I get the process.
I should also mention that my article on Philip Kaplan was published on the Encyclopedia of Arkansas recently. Click on his name to view, and enjoy! It was awesome to be asked to write for them this past summer and I hope to be asked in the future.
I am excited to announce that I am the recipient of a $500 scholarship from the Arkansas Museum Association to attend the Southeastern Museum Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee! I am super thrilled to have this opportunity!
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