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trip officially booked! JULY 5TH-13TH.
spring quarter 2k8 officially OVER! one more year to go! i have 2 weeks off, then STATS for 2 weeks and then preservation and conservation for the rest of the summer. at least its a fun class.
went back to the museum yesterday.. judy is going to have me assist with CHS's part of the Digitization of Denver's Neighborhood's Project. This is a pretty sweet deal. *background note: DPL (denver public library) got a huge grant to start do this digitization project where they are going to document all of Denver's historic neighborhoods. To do this, they need to work with CHS (colorado historical society) and the archive of the city and county of Denver. they are creating a whole new section in DPL to do this, staffing it and buying all kinds of fancy equipment. drool.
so a position was posted that i had applied for but didnt get.. instead it went to this guy james who graduated from our program in the fall and is much more qualified. ironically, i now have his position at Integer (the ad company i will be working for starting in a few weeks). so theyre still in the planning process, but they will be hiring more people in the winter and now.. since i will already be working on the project as a volunteer..i have a good chance of getting a paid position. wooohoo! the first part im helping with is the Park Hill neighborhood so i was doing some serious cataloging of images yesterday. nerd alert! of course, true to any archival collection many of them didnt fit. but i was in my element, elbow deep in photos of the oklahoma land rush of 1893. HECK YES.
oh yeah. new job! i have one more week here at my work study, then i start at Integer as an archivist! its only a summer contract and the pay isnt that great... but its decent and ill actually be doing archiving work. They are a major ad company, doing mostly ads for Coors/ P & G/ etc. i will be taking the images and encoding METADATA and creating databases so that the "creatives" will be able to access images as they need them. It's one of those trendy "hip" companies, where you get to wear jeans, everyone is under the age of 35, there is beer in the breakroom and the building is "green." I'll be working under my friend Bonnie (not my mom), who is their archivist and is in my program. Should be a good gig. metadata! EAD! nerd alert!
saturday nite we had a big party.. a ton of library people, some of Em's friends...plus amanda and matt and that crowd. good times. i drank too much, fell on my ass trying to break up a dog fight and was amazed at how many great people i know in this town.
Last nite was the return of trivia! sean, RJ and i had to be on the smallest team, but we still got 6th place so it wasnt TOO bad. plus, we still win for best team name ever - an annotated bibliography of things we put in your mom. "library of conquest" got first place, but of course they did. micah was on that team and he's a super genius. watch out for his knowledge of presidential history ladies! zing! anyways, a few black and tans and irish carbombs...and having to be at work at 9 am. not such a good day so far. but i'm hoping to fix that with a burrito in just a few minutes. BURRITO!
i wish it would stop raining.
spring quarter 2k8 officially OVER! one more year to go! i have 2 weeks off, then STATS for 2 weeks and then preservation and conservation for the rest of the summer. at least its a fun class.
went back to the museum yesterday.. judy is going to have me assist with CHS's part of the Digitization of Denver's Neighborhood's Project. This is a pretty sweet deal. *background note: DPL (denver public library) got a huge grant to start do this digitization project where they are going to document all of Denver's historic neighborhoods. To do this, they need to work with CHS (colorado historical society) and the archive of the city and county of Denver. they are creating a whole new section in DPL to do this, staffing it and buying all kinds of fancy equipment. drool.
so a position was posted that i had applied for but didnt get.. instead it went to this guy james who graduated from our program in the fall and is much more qualified. ironically, i now have his position at Integer (the ad company i will be working for starting in a few weeks). so theyre still in the planning process, but they will be hiring more people in the winter and now.. since i will already be working on the project as a volunteer..i have a good chance of getting a paid position. wooohoo! the first part im helping with is the Park Hill neighborhood so i was doing some serious cataloging of images yesterday. nerd alert! of course, true to any archival collection many of them didnt fit. but i was in my element, elbow deep in photos of the oklahoma land rush of 1893. HECK YES.
oh yeah. new job! i have one more week here at my work study, then i start at Integer as an archivist! its only a summer contract and the pay isnt that great... but its decent and ill actually be doing archiving work. They are a major ad company, doing mostly ads for Coors/ P & G/ etc. i will be taking the images and encoding METADATA and creating databases so that the "creatives" will be able to access images as they need them. It's one of those trendy "hip" companies, where you get to wear jeans, everyone is under the age of 35, there is beer in the breakroom and the building is "green." I'll be working under my friend Bonnie (not my mom), who is their archivist and is in my program. Should be a good gig. metadata! EAD! nerd alert!
saturday nite we had a big party.. a ton of library people, some of Em's friends...plus amanda and matt and that crowd. good times. i drank too much, fell on my ass trying to break up a dog fight and was amazed at how many great people i know in this town.
Last nite was the return of trivia! sean, RJ and i had to be on the smallest team, but we still got 6th place so it wasnt TOO bad. plus, we still win for best team name ever - an annotated bibliography of things we put in your mom. "library of conquest" got first place, but of course they did. micah was on that team and he's a super genius. watch out for his knowledge of presidential history ladies! zing! anyways, a few black and tans and irish carbombs...and having to be at work at 9 am. not such a good day so far. but i'm hoping to fix that with a burrito in just a few minutes. BURRITO!
i wish it would stop raining.