I spent a good bit of time this week planning my display table for the Junior Fellow exhibit day which will be at the end of the month. I decided to make the focus an educational and advocacy display for the YRC. So, I had to pick a few books to represent the whole program. I picked a few from the Roback donation I've been working on, one I read to the Princess, and two popular novels from our older reader collection. I'm also going to have a photo of me reading to the Princess and embassy kids, and a laptop with a video I'm going to create about the YRC. It was so hard to pick so few books to represent the program! Hopefully the ones I chose will show the scope of the YRC collection and pique the interest of the congressmen and others who will be there on exhibit day. I'm meeting with IPO, the preservation and exhibits department to work on the logistic of the display table. I also had to submit the text for the labels which will be printed with the LOC logo for the items on display. Its exciting to be putting together an official display!
On Friday we were able to take a short tour of the conservation department, where they work on restoring and repairing materials in the LOC collection, mostly rare books and manuscripts. It was pretty interesting, but a little disappointing because all the staff was out to lunch and we didn't see anything in action. Oh well, maybe next time.
We also had a follow up meeting with Dr. Marcum earlier in the week. She spent an hour with us answering questions, mostly about the Twitter archives, future plans, and career advice. Its such a great opportunity to have people with so much insight and experience share their time and advice with us.
The week went by very fast! I was so busy with preparing my display and continuing inventory work, the four day week just flew by. I still can;t believe how little time I left here. I'm not ready to be finished yet!
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