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13 Percent of Collection Misplaced

Materials Missing at Library of Congress

Posted by cassch on October 25, 2007 at 07:56 PM | Comments (0)

Mid Semester

I have fallen down on the job of keeping up with my blog entries!

For everyone that attended Connect SI- it was great to meet you! I hope the event helped to explain what we are all about here at SI. If you seem to have more questions than when you started, remember you can always email your friendly admissions staff!

This has been a busy semester and luckily I've made it to the half way point. I just finished up with two midterms (practical and written) in Design of Complex Websites, which led to a stressful week of finishing up programming assignments and figuring out how to fix all of the many errors one gets while writing code. I definitely feel that I am learning and gaining some programming and web design skills that will be useful in the future.

I'm doing a one credit internship this semester at the Special Collections Library on campus. I am processing a collection of an automobile designer. Most of the materials are from the 1920s-1940s. This collection is different from others I have processed as the majority of the materials are photographs and architectural drawings. This is giving me great experience with the preservation, arrangement, and description of visual materials.

This is the first week that it has truly felt like fall in Ann Arbor. The leaves are falling and the weather is crisp necessitating a light sweater. My favorite time of year!

Posted by cassch on October 24, 2007 at 11:01 AM | Comments (0)