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  • Essay / Reflecting on an Internship - 1026

    An internship is a formal program designed to provide hands-on experience for those new to a trade or profession. At this point in my internship, I'm more than halfway through and I'm taking on more and more responsibilities and roles as I go. After a slight break in my research, I researched for three more hours on the Victorian Memorabilia Project. I discovered companies that made postcards and when the Sanborn Card Company came into existence. Once I was done, I wanted to prepare more for physical archiving, so I practiced for two more hours with the Past Perfect disc. Tomorrow began my first experience with archiving. On my first day of archiving, I worked with Barbara and Sandy. We filled out data entry sheets and I finished two books in two hours because we were all learning. Each book should have two completed sheets, one being a data entry form and the second being a book status report. These data entry sheets have been designed to correlate with the Past Perfect archiving program. Once we are finished with the data entry sheets, we copy the number we assigned to the book onto the card inside the book and then arrange the books on the shelves in numerical order. So, thanks to the Past Perfect training disk and each of us working on the sheets of the book, we became experts in data entry. Second day of archiving I worked with Barbara and Ardienne. We completed a total of twenty-five books, of which I completed thirteen. I trained Ardienne to complete the data archiving notebook forms and checked that she completed them correctly. The books we have archived will be reference works, which will then be used in a library that the Milford Historical Society plans to establish. Some books were directly related to Milford, while others were archeology books. On the third day of archiving with Susan, we archived eleven books in total. I taught Susan how to fill out the records in the archive book. We came across books that we thought had already been acquired or archived, which meant they were already cataloged. So, we left them on the table in a pile, hence on the desk until we could figure out where they would be stored..