Humm's HIS5067 Blog

       While interning at Maitland A&H, I have questioned my importance while working there. I have concluded that my time working has been one of the best experiences I have done. I have learned the importance of my job by discussing with other students working on different projects. From talking to them, I have learned that my time and dedication while working have allowed other students to use my work for their own gain and accomplish their projects. From their response, I feel rejoiced knowing that people use what I posted for their research.      In my first post, I discussed how people who are the ones who put documents and pictures on the internet had benefited the historical field greatly. Learning so quickly that people use my work has allowed me to be more open to the scanning process. As mentioned last time, the task is tedious, but personally, being thanked by those who need it has allowed me to appreciate an online source even more. Th...

       Since the last time, a lot has happened when working with the Maitland Art and History Museum. My idea of understanding what the job was about was semi-correct. My job is to scan documents with a scanner, so the museum has a digital copy of the object, but there is more to it than just a simple scan. The things that I deal with must be documented before they can be scanned. Such a document describes the object with a descriptive title, the author, the date of production, the object's size, and if the thing has an already identification number. Most of the time, I can fill out all form sections except for the author and the identification number. Once I fill out the form, I can scan the object. Most of my objects tend to be written works, but sometimes I have scanned photos. It is clumsy of me to have not taken a photo of the process, but in the next blog, images will be added to show the reader what the process looks like and see the quantity of how much one-f...