Hours: 8.5 Total Hours: 98.5 Monday was a holiday, and the library was closed, so this week began on Tuesday morning. I checked in with Jane, and she let me know she had sent out the Usability Pre-Survey. We had 6 volunteers already, all faculty/staff, so she was going to send the survey out to the students again on Wednesday… More →
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Day 12 at Otterbein
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 90 Jane was already in a meeting when I arrived today, so I gathered all my assignments together from my email To Do box, and got to work. There were some new suggestions for the Website Usability Pre-Survey, so I started on that. I updated the intro, changed a few free-answer questions to multiple choice, and… More →
Day 11 at Otterbein
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 82.5 Started the day, as usual, with a conversation about all the things on our plate this week. Some DC Survey edits, the Institutional Research Board, an email to biology faculty, and some metadata editing. I started with the changes to the DC Use Survey, and then began working on filling out the IRB submission form,… More →
Day 10 at CML
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 75 I have to login and out at CML, and I’m finding, just like at B&N, I’m pretty terrible at remembering to do so around my lunch break. Today, my project is the Poindexter Village Construction Journal. First, I created a new ContentDM project, as there are nearly 100 images in this project. I spent most… More →
Day 9 at CML
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 67.5 Today, I got back to work on the NAACP collection. I finished up created all the metadata, then noticed that the images are too big. I moved them over to the shared drive from the external hard drive and set them for a batch resize while I finished metadata creation. Then I created a new… More →
Day 8 at CML
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 60 Upon arrival, I noticed a couple of the files from one of my sets had caused errors, so I fixed them and finished the small batch imports. Then I added all the metadata to them and set them to upload. Next, I moved on to the last small batch, which had seemed much bigger by… More →
Day 7 at CML
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 52.5 Aaron approved my metadata work from last week, and had uploaded it for me. When I got in, I set it to approve and index after on last quick check. Next, I started work on the Nimrod Allen collection. I had started the import before leaving last week, but 8 of the folders had not… More →
Day 6 at CML
Hours: 7.75 Total Hours: 45 Today, I finished the last approval and indexing of the Annual Reports and began the African American Collection photos from the Ohio History Conncetion. I started with the C.W. Bryant Collection that I had sorted yesterday. First,I created a new collection in ContentDM’s Project Client. Next, I put all the singles into one folder, for… More →
Day 5 at CML
Hours: 7.75 Total Hours: 37.25 I started out the day figuring out the proper specifications for an A4 OCR page with Aaron. We then did a batch resize of 1883-84. Fortunately, my batch import from last week was mostly successful. Only 1887-88 did not go through. So, I added metadata to all of these years and uploaded them for approval.… More →
Day 6 at Otterbein
Hours: 7 Total Hours: 45 I started my day by creating a Google Doc for Kellen of the metadata used for books in the Digital Commons, and sent it to him to see if they would work for the Diaries. I then summarized my usability notes in another Google Doc. Jane emailed me, then, asking if I could check copyright… More →