Internship Week 2

Last Monday I completed my survey of the Robert Piemonte Papers.  I looked at about five boxes of records, the majority of which were certificates, awards, and other objects.  I have now finished writing my initial inventory.  Several certificates had been sent to Robert Piemonte in postal tubes, and so we carefully unrolled and set them aside to flatten out.  They will be integrated with similar items once they will lie flat in a folder.  I also went back through the first four boxes and removed all the National Environmental Health Watch records, approximately 1.5 cubic feet.  A total of approximately 3 cubic feet has been removed from the Robert Piemonte collection and will augment the currently rather small NEHW collection.  Trudy and I discussed the plan for the next step; she will be out of the office tomorrow but I will start on my processing plan.  And I may begin re-housing some of the paper records by transferring them to archival folders.

On Tuesday I worked by myself.  I created a processing plan and began re-housing one box of books, pamphlets, and other publications.  I separated the publications according to year and put them in folders.  I did not yet label the folders because there will be more publications to add when we pull out more boxes.  I spent the majority of the day typing up my handwritten inventory from my original survey of the boxes.  I know that the collection will undergo a major reorganization but by typing my list I will ease the later process for creating my box and folder list.  I have looked at records in seventeen boxes, three shopping bags, and several piles of framed items which were loose on a shelf.  The inventory is a 15 page long single spaced Microsoft Word document.