Internship, week of 1/23

Read through the papers on Howard Gest. Wow, this is quite the guy. Looks like he started his career in 1942 working on the Manhattan Project! From there he's spent over 60 years teaching, researching, writing, and... everything, it seems. The man literally wrote a book about his collaborations with "notable" scientists. That's not a book of the collaborations, but about them. There's just that many.

Gest started donating his work to the archives in 2005. There are 6-7 separate accessions over as many years, totaling about 32 boxes. My job is going to be to go through these, survey the contents, then condense them into a cohesive whole.

I'm also working the desk on Tuesdays from 1-3. I'm basically just keeping an eye on the reading room, as I route every call and walk-in to the archivist on duty.

Internship, week of 1/16

Still doing some grunt work, but I'm also still enjoying it. It's good to get back into the swing of things. Phil says he'll have me working on the collection of Howard Gest, a microbiologist and professor emeritus. I'm not familiar with him, but I have a sheaf of documents on him that I need to look through and Phil will have me start looking through the boxes next week.

Internship, week of 1/9

First week of internship in the Archives dept. Phil has to get things set up in the midst of getting his classes off the ground, so I'm mainly doing a few "cleanup" tasks this week. Various filing and shifting collections. It's not exactly elbow-deep, but it's nice to be working with this sort of material again.