Finding Aid & School Fiction Collection Issues

May 6th - Sacramento Room

Spent a few hours today going over the remaining papers in the manuscript collection I'm processing - now officially named MC32.  Reviewed two leather-bound ledger books dating from 1884/1885 belonging to the Guth family.  Brothers George and John Guth emigrated to California from France ca 1850s.  Both ran successful grocery/feed store businesses - the ledger books detail in script business operations (bills, receipts) as well as the information about the genealogy of the family.  The archivist will review my finding aid for this collection, make edits, and explain process of EAD coding.  Eventually this finding aid will be uploaded onto the Online Archive of California website.   Also looking forward to receiving a little more Contentdm training through online tutorials before the end of the semester.

May 7th - School Library

The middle school is currently administering the CORE tests and the library has been reserved by classes for this purpose the last few days.  Without direct guidance from a Teacher Librarian, I chose to wait to come in this Students are using the new MacBook Air laptops that were purchased for the middle school.  Spent four hours processing backlog of returned books and reorganizing fiction collection per instruction of Teacher Librarian.  The fiction collection is in serious need of weeding but no progress has been made on this to date (not for lack of trying on my part :) ).  At least the fiction books are in better shape now than when I first found them - looking forward to a book binding and repair workshop at Natomas Charter School on May 23rd.  Although I've pretty much taught myself how to mylar wrap and repair book jackets on the job, a document preservation workshop I took at the State Archives last fall provided some handy tips in this respect.   My last official day at the middle school library is Wednesday, May 14th.