10/31/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Happy Halloween, Everyone!

I can not believe October is already over! We were able to accomplish many things down here in the digitization lab! Today I was able to finish spot-checking the Commencement Programs. There are some that are already mounted and now others that are ready to be mounted online. On the other hand, there are many that just need some quick checks. Here is the link the spreadsheet of all of the ones we need to fix:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TLVxKsfSRLZF7cI49dfEBZ-lOJi3BVbC95Syq4zskRc/edit?usp=sharing

On Tuesday I will be getting in touch with Stephanie on when best to pull the Second Copy Boxes and additional bound volumes. Hopefully, this should let us move forward on the Catalogs and Bulletins.

Have a fun and safe weekend, y'all!

10/30/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Catalogs and Bulletins!

Took the first steps towards the corrections on catalogs and bulletins. With the help of Stephanie pulled bound copies of the bulletins I had thought we needed. There may be some discrepancies in the dates in the original spreadsheet and will have a stronger update tomorrow. 

I was also able to touch base with Selicity on what "Third Copy Box" meant, especially after looking at the bound volumes knowing it may be hard to scan the smaller volumes out of that. With help from Selicity, Stephanie and I were able to locate the "Second Copy Boxes" for all of the bulletins and catalogs which was amazing! The hunt for individual Bulletins and Catalogs should be on a smooth track now!

I was also able to take care of the three photos from the Jack Eyerly Collection, pictures found below!

10/29/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Commencement!

I was able to keep moving forward on the Commencement program quality check. It is so interesting to watch how the class sizes, majors, and the programs themselves change over the years. I even found the commencement program from my parent's graduation! 

Stephanie and I plan on pulling the beginning items for the Catalogs and Bulletins and I will be scanning the Jack Eyerly pictures tomorrow as well!

10/24/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Happy Thursday!

Today I was able to set a time to work with Stephnie on making the first steps towards grabbing the necessary items from the Catalogs and Bulletins spreadsheet. I was also able to make progress towards checking scans from the commencement programs and there were some more mistakes that seemed to follow a trend, will hopefully touch base with Sara on what should be checked on and what should be fixed. Have a great weekend everyone!

10/23/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Wednesday - Bulletins, Catalogs, and Commencements!

Today Sara and I were able to sit down and discuss the next steps for the Catalogs and Bulletins. We do believe the elusive Third Copy Box is gone completely. Which is a bummer but will discuss with Stephanie to see how best to find those articles. To work best with Archives I may switch around hours or work a bit longer to best work with upstairs. Before that happens I am working on "quality control" of previously scanned Commencement programs. Many of them are scanned great, but the page count from the number of .tifs to the number in the spreadsheet is off. There seems to be a pattern and will hopefully be able to clarify this later. Will continue to tomorrow on Commencement Programs and touching in with Stephanie!

( Stephanie if you are reading this I will send an email getting you up to speed :) )

10/22/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Yay for Tuesdays!

I was still having trouble understanding what parts of the catalogs and bulletins needed to be worked on, so today I spent trying to understand a bit better of each. Here is the link to the compiled spreadsheet of things we need to look for and work on. Stephanie and I are a bit confused as to what "Third Copy Box" for location refers to and was hoping someone might have some information on that. Each is highlighted. Hopefully tomorrow we can fine-tune a bit more things sit back down with Stephanie to talk detailed plans. 

Link to spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QMHAdNv3r7YX7zxQVwY7IK-uUi7oaPdFLiBnPGFXyU8/edit?usp=sharing

10/16/2019 AND 10/16/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Productive Fall!

Sorry for the late blog post everyone, things got a bit hectic - but here is a quick summary:

• We were able to finish up the Packwood Scans and the Jason Scans from that particular set of years. 
• Moved onto two quick scanning projects for Stephanie and some researchers 
• One was a rescan of a Cabinet Card
• The second was photos from Men's Basketball of Buzz Wilfert 
• Next, we are moving onto Catalogs and Bulletins fixups.

This next project may be a bit demanding of archives and will hopefully be able to make some progress next week. I plan to dive deeper into the spreadsheet to find out which books need to be pulled or where we need to look. I was able to go up to archives and have a visual with what we are working with and will work towards fixing things ASAP. 

Final update, I am not feeling 100% today, so will be taking a sick day and continuing this process on Tuesday of next week! Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Pictures!

Cabinet Card : 

Buzz Wilfert (Tall One in the Back):

10/15/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Happy Tuesday!

Today was an interesting day and a start to a long project. I was able to get a few covers scanned for some Penk Hander sketchbooks from the PNAA project, so Sara has the option to mount it as a book which would look really great! Sara also has me start on fixing some small things from Catalogs and Bulletins from Archives. Stephanie and I were quickly able to touch base and we will meet tomorrow to discuss a few rescan of photos and about how best to tackle withdrawing and hunting for items from these collections which could be quite tricky. I hope to get up and running on this tomorrow. I am working on compiling a Google Docs documents with each part of the "fixes" for the Catalogs and Bulletins just to make life easier, well hopefully easier.

10/10/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Project Done!

Yay! I was able to get all scans and metadata done for the Packwood photos, I have one note within the metadata that should be self-explanatory. Many are quite interesting and here is one of my favorites. Have a great weekend everyone!

Packwood at the Capitol Hill Squash Club Courts

10/8/2019 AND 10/9/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Happy Wednesday!

Sorry for the lack of a blog post yesterday, just a day where I did not stop moving till 11 PM and by that point I completely forgot. But here we are today! So over the past two days, I have worked on a project for Craig on photos of Oregon Politician Packwood. Some of these have been quite interesting, including one of Packwood with Nixon, seen below. 

Bob Miche, Packwood, Bob Dole, Richard Nixon, Howard Baker in the hallway in front of Dole's office 

I made major progress today, both in metadata and in scanning. Will have everything scanned and their metadata done tomorrow, and will hopefully have enough time to double-check all titles and file names as too avoid as many mistakes as possible. Here are a couple of photos.

Baseball

Mimi Weyforth in Packwood's Senate office 

10/04/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Nothing too exciting!

Today was able to rescan some of the not so great scans of Jason 1986. Didn't notice when I was scanning using the ATIZ the pages were folding at a slightly deskewed angle, so fixing that the second round led to much better scans! 

Messages from Sara indicate I will be moving on to a project from Craig on Tuesday. Looking forward to seeing what those scans are going to be on! 

Have a great weekend everyone.

10/03/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Just a quick update! 

Will not be in today, but will finish this weeks projects tomorrow instead!

10/02/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Catching Up!

Yay! I was able to re-scan the slide for Sara at the correct DPI, and scan the missing horoscope page which background these were interested pages into Olive Sandgren's Sabbatical "Page a Day" for 1959 to 1960. Here are those horoscopes, and I find these to be quite interesting! (Side note: It turned out I had missed two pages, and in looking at all of the pages I have now the dates match up perfectly from file 6.2-10)

 

I was also able to OCR Jason issues from 1987 and 1988, and plan to do 1986 tomorrow!

10/01/2019 - Maddy Kelm

Happy October!

Hopefully all .gifs for October will be Halloween themed.

Any who, the ATIZ worked marvelously again and I was able to scan two full issues of Jason. I plan to OCR the last three issues I have scanned tomorrow. Today it seemed to have a harder time transferring files between the files, but we will try again tomorrow. Luckily, I have been able to work with them quite a bit and have seen less damage to each scanned issue! Super exciting!

It has been mentioned that I should insert some of the scanned images from each day. Here are a couple inserts from a publication in the 1987 Jason II, which I found to be quite interesting. You can read the whole article from the images found here :
moh:\Archives-Scans\Student_Publications\Jason\Jason 1987