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)

Is it Over Yet?

I have been super busy lately as the semester is drawing to a close. Here is a brief outline of the rest of my school year:

• 503: HW due Thursday, April 12
• 502: HW due Friday, April 13
• 502: HW due Monday, April 16
• 581: Group Grant Presentation on Monday, April 16:
• 655: 15 page final paper due Monday, April 16
• 503: Take home final exam from Friday, April 20 – Monday, April 23
• 581: Grant Proposal due Tuesday, April 24
• 502: Final exam, Thursday, April 26
• Work: Go through 10 more boxes of Weld-Grimke Collection, finish write up for Scope and Contents and Biography section of finding aid
• Summer: Figure out internship/housing plans?
• Party?

I've been getting lots of housing questions lately. Hopefully next week I will post an entry about housing information, links, thoughts, etc.

Until then, Good Luck Everyone!

Posted by cassch on April 10, 2007 at 02:33 PM | Comments (0)

Preservation Smeservation

Tonight I'm working on a Preservation Assessment Survey for the Ford Presidential Library. As part of a class assignment for SI 581 we are suppose to interview and observe an institution's preservation plans, strategies, environmental issues, disaster plans, etc... It's a cool assignment, but at the same time am I qualified to do this a month into the class? It is a bit intimidating to authoritatively tell the Ford, which lets keep in mind is run by NARA, how to fix/improve their preservation strategies.

Posted by cassch on February 05, 2007 at 09:14 PM | Comments (0)