Day 2

Today I spent most of my time putting Student Handbook files organized by date through the ABBYY system, then placing them back in their dated files under "Processed"

While it was interesting in its own way, the handbooks did make me miss The Mill Stream publications from yesterday, which contained articles by students regarding social issues, music and movie reviews, and political discussions from 1977 and 1978.

I did enjoy how the student handbooks were set up. They contained warm welcome messages for freshman, basic rules of conduct, biographies and pictures of Deans and other administrators, and even a few different Willamette University songs.

I processed from the year 1892 to 1947.

Finally I did OCR with verification for the first 25 pages of the Alumni Directory

This is not finished, so the remaining pages (26- 90 something) are on a desktop file on the computer for me to complete tomorrow

The verification has actually done a really good job, and most of the mistakes so far are turning Ill. (like Illinois the state I assume) into 111, or Ia (Iowa maybe?) into la with a lowercase L

Very excited to start working on this again tomorrow!