July 31, 2013 - "Periwinkle Pickle"

Today, I continued scanning and editing the 1925 Wallulah, and finished it such that it's ready for review. The JPGs are currently being made on Sara's computer.

I found a way to maintain my sanity whilst editing photos. I decided to put on youtube videos in another window as I edited pages in photoshop. It worked excellently. I will probably keep that method up, because it doesn't seem to significantly affect my speed or quality in editing.

I also did a short quick scan of Packwood and Hatfield in front of the Washington Mall.

Tomorrow, I'll review the 1925 Wallulah and begin the 1926.

July 30, 2013 - "Matt"

Today, I started scanning/editing the 1925 Wallulah. I actually did this for the whole day.

Tomorrow, I will continue with the 1925 Wallulah. If you have anything you need scanned (and I mean anything), please bring it my way so I have a little bit more to write about.

July 29, 2013 - "Hey, Bail Hay Bale"

Today, I continued scanning and editing the 1924 Wallulah, and finished it. I'm pretty glad as the book was leaving a white residue on the scanner that I would have to clean before scanning.

I also reviewed both the 1923 and 1924 Wallulah for errors, and then began converting the 1923 jpgs to pdf format.

Later in the afternoon, I worked on a request to scan some photos of Bob Packwood's campaign for Shanel's display.

Tomorrow, I will begin scanning the 1925 Wallulah and finishing the jpg to pdf conversions for both 1923 and 1924.

July 25, 2013 - "Wallulow"

Today, I focused only on scanning and editing the 1924 Wallulah. It's taking me considerably longer to edit these photos for a few reasons. The color is such that I can't use autotone. There are a lot of little rips and blemishes that I spend some time editing out. It's also really hard to deskew because the border lines aren't very straight.

Next week, I'll continue with this Wallulah and hopefully review the 1923 Wallulah.

Camping was fun. We went tubing and I caught several newts.

July 24, 2013 - "In tents"

Today, I worked solely on the Wallulah project. I wrapped up the pdfs for the 1922 Wallulah. I also finished scanning/editing the 1923 Wallulah, and converted the TIFs to JPGs for review. Then, I worked on the next Wallulah the rest of the day.

Tomorrow, I will continue with that Wallulah.

I'm going camping overnight. It should be a lot of fun! I'll be in at the same time tomorrow, though I may smell like charred timber and lake.

July 23, 2013 - "Dang that Dream"

Today, I began with finishing the Packwood photos I was given yesterday. I rescanned two of them because I noticed a little dust that was on the scanner that showed up on the images.

Mary then had me scan and edit several photos of Hatfield in his campaign. There was one with a black smudge that I managed to edit out, which was fun.

After that, I primarily worked on the Wallulah. I started with reviewing the 1922 Wallulah, and once I finished, I moved to scanning/editing the 1923 Wallulah for the rest of the day. I finished the day by working on creating the PDF for the 1922 Wallulah.

Tomorrow, it looks like I'll be primarily working on the 1923 Wallulah.

July 22, 2013 - "It's Boot Season"

Today, I spent most of the day working on the Wallulah project. I started by finishing the redo of the tif -> jpg -> pdf process for all of the yearbooks with odd dimensions.

Following this, I was given the collegian published following the Kennedy assassination to scan and name accordingly. I may have skimmed the articles.

Then, I wrapped up the scanning/editing portion of the 1922 Wallulah and started on the 1923 Wallulah (while converting the tifs to jpgs on Sara's computer).

At the end of the day, I was given some Paulus campaign materials to scan for Shanel's political display, and when I finished that, I was given a few photos of Packwood and other various politicians to scan for both archives and Shanel. It was the end of the day, so I managed to scan and name them, but I have yet to edit them, convert to jpg, and place under the proper directory.

Tomorrow, I'll start with finishing the political scans before reviewing the 1922 Wallulah for errors and then continuing with the 1923 Wallulah.

July 18, 2013 - "Variations and Fugue"

I began the day scanning and editing the 1922 Wallulah, but very soon into the morning I received a couple of small projects from Mary including a Christmas card and a Collegian article.

I also spent some time revising the instructions for a new scanner on google docs, and it now includes updated info on the Epson Scanner as well as instructions for using the Plustek Opticbook 4800 (I now have the name memorized..) in both Book Pavilion and Presto! ImageFolio softwares. I'm sure what I've written will need some edits, but I read through them and the instructions appear to be fairly complete.

I also received a mini project from Shanel that took maybe twenty minutes. The rest of the time was spent scanning and editing as well as making new JPGs for the Wallulahs. The ones I made previously were 1200x1500 and squashed the images noticeably. Now, I'm going through and deciding what height would be the best (eg 1200x1800 or 1200x1750) and applying it for all the images from that yearbook. I'm also recreating the PDFs as well to correct the squish.

Next week, I'll continue JPG and PDF correction and continue scanning/editing the 1922 Wallulah. I earned the title "King of Special Projects" today, so hopefully there will be a few when I come back on Monday.

July 17, 2013 - "Pulp Faction"

Today, I continued with the Wallulah project. I finished the 1921 Wallulah and made significant progress on the 1922 Wallulah.

I received several project from Mary and Rose Marie today in response to my plea for novelty. I received one scanning project involving the Alumnus from Mary, a baseball scanning project from the Wallulah and Collegian from both Rose Marie and Mary, and at the end of the day I received a 'quirky history' project from Mary.

I haven't quite wrapped up the quirky history, so I'll continue with that tomorrow and then continue on the Wallulah.

Edit: Just kidding. I finished the quirky history project.

July 16, 2013 - "Quantum Electra"

Today, I worked only on the Wallulah. I checked the 1918 Wallulah for errors, and fixed any I found. Then, I converted it to PDF and jpg formats and such.

Then, I worked solely on the Wallulah 1921. I've scanned all the pages, and edited all but 74 of them.

Tomorrow, I'll finish those, check them, and then start on the next one. Feel free to bring a project to break the monotony (in fact, it would be very welcome!)

July 15, 2013 - "Political Turmoil"

Today, I began by finishing the project Shanel gave me last week in which I scanned various archival materials relating to Oregon political campaigns to a high quality .jpg format. Of the ones I scanned, I had to rescan one to achieve a higher resolution.

Following this I continued working on the 1918 Wallulah. I managed to scan and edit the entirety of it by the end of the day and am currently working on making jpg's of it as well as form a large PDF of the Wallulah from 1916.

Tomorrow, I'll review the 1918 and begin working on the 1921 Wallulah. I need clean gloves!

July 11, 2013 - "Brontosaur Castle"

This morning, I spent the majority of time working on file conversion for scanned and double-checked Wallulahs. I added several columns to the Wallulah list: jpg made, cover thumbnail, and pdf to keep track of what files existed. Then, I looked through files to see which ones I could convert to jpg, pdf, etc.

I also have been scanning the 1918 Wallulah, though I have to be careful as it is pretty delicate.

At around 2, I went with Shanel to grab the archive material she wanted to scan. She discussed with me what she wanted, and I spent the rest of the day scanning/editing.

Next week, I'll continue with the political scanning. It shouldn't take incredibly long, as I finished a good chunk of it today. Then, back to Wallulah.

July 10, 2013 - "Vengeance Has a Name"

Today, I continued working on the greater Wallulah project.

I finished scanning and editing the 1917 (labeled 1918) Wallulah, and then I later checked over it. I also checked over the 1912 (labeled 1913) Wallulah as well as the 1919 (labeled 1920) Wallulah.

I had to go to archives to pick up some of the yearbooks (as they weren't on the shelves), and thus, Mary had me walk through the periodicals and see which years weren't on the shelf. She was surprised by the number not present.

On the digital front, I've made JPGs for every Wallulah I've edited, and I just started pdf creation for the 1912 Wallulah. I've created the large multiple page pdf, ocr'd it, and optimized it for space. It's surprising what happens to the quality. Now, I just need to separate them into individual sheets. I'll do that tomorrow.

Other than that, tomorrow I'll continue with scanning/editing, checking over scans, creating jpgs and pdfs, and anything else that someone wants to throw at me! I know Shanel has stuff in mind for her political display, so I may get a few bumper stickers to scan.

July 9, 2013 - "The Return"

Today, I received email instructions about further processing of the Wallulah. I spent the first hour or so of my shift working figuring out converting the TIFs to the appropriately sized JPG. I did this with two of the Wallulahs. Towards the end of the day, I also tried converting them to PDFs in adobe, but this didn't work out as planned because of the way the files were named. I will need to find a way to change the file names before converting them all.

Sandwiched between the beginning and end was my ever exciting Wallulah project. I finally finished scanning and editing the 1912 (labeled 1913) Wallulah, and then scanned and edited 120 pages out of the 1917 (labeled 1918) Wallulah. Unfortunately, in this Wallulah, the margins are incredibly narrow, and I found it really difficult to keep the decorative border uncropped. Though, I did discover a faster way to scan during this Wallulah. So it has so far had both it's wins and woes.

 Tomorrow, I will continue with the Wallulah. If I ever figure out how to change those pesky names, I will do the convert to PDFs as well. Otherwise, I'll just keep scanning.

June 3, 2013 - "Island Retreat"

Today, I reviewed the scans I took for the 1920 Wallulah. I spent a good deal editing some of the white space that I didn't find satisfactory, but didn't have any problems with missed pages, moire, skew, etc.

Then, I got to work on scanning the 1912 Wallulah. It's a little bit tough scanning it however, because it doesn't press down flat and subsequently, scans have a little dark space towards the crease. If this is a serious issue, please let me know so I can maybe try to edit it.

Other than that, the clock has been ticking slower as my vacation nears. While I'm incredibly excited to go to an island on the Columbia, I will refrain from drinking the water or eating the fish as it is downstream of the Portland Harbor superfund site.

July 2, 2013 - "Suede Uprisings"

Today, I continued working on the greater Wallulah project.

I've finished scanning and editing the 1920 Wallulah. I'll probably look over this Wallulah and the last one I scanned to see about things I could fix and such.

I started adding reviews to my routine. I started with the 1911 Wallulah bounded in red suede. It's residue covered my gloves, so I'm glad I didn't get any on my clothes. I also corrected errors like skipped/incorrect pages and skewed images.

Finally, I started working on scanning the 1912 Wallulah. It's a very large copy and thus must be copied on the Epson scanner. In spite of this, I've managed to scan and edit about forty pages today.

When I come back tomorrow, I'll continue with scanning, editing, and reviewing. I will be here from 8-12, so if there are any quick projects that need attention, please bring them to my attention!

July 1, 2013 - "Scorcher"

Today, I started with working on the Wallulah scanning project. I've scanned and edited another 60 pages, and am getting a better grip on touching up the corners to get rid of page/scanner breaks (because the margins are so narrow, it's very prominent and hard to avoid. Touching up gives me a little more room on the margins)

I then finished the Collegian page count project whilst discovering a multitude of interesting articles.

Previously, I had found an article about the Library's new ILS 'Millenium' that was ground breaking as it made obsolete the card catalog system. Shanel asked me to search for it, so I spent a couple minutes looking for it, and am currently looking for it in the few minutes before my shift ends.

Finally, I scanned several letters of Jason Lee and sent them Rose Marie's way. I was very conservative with my edits and preferred white space to cropping out paper.

Tomorrow, I'll continue with the Wallulah. If there are any projects, feel free to 'break the monotony'