Kent State MLIS Program
digital special collections practicum
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Work Log

January 21, 2020

9:30am - 1:30pm (4 hours)

  • Began content audit of Cleveland Digital Library (CDL) and the local history research guide LibGuides
  • Tested making a new guide in LibGuides
  • In the process of audit and new guide creation, found valuable information that is hidden in CDL, that is prime for putting on Cleveland Memory

January 23, 2020

9:25am - 1:25pm (8 hours)

  • Continued Subject content audit of CDL and LibGuides
  • Touched base with Bill about goals for LibGuides Transfer
  • Transferred CDL Local History Links and started transferring Cleveland Cartography Links to LibGuides, replacing broken and missing links and removing where appropriate

January 24, 2020

9:30am - 1:30pm (12 hours)

  • Finished content audit
  • Made suggestions for content placement
  • Created several LibGuides and updated others
    • Misclicked on Libguides and lost all of my local history links work, had to redo completely, good learning experience for how to handle LibGuides interface
    • LibGuide tabs created: Local History Links, Cleveland Cartography

January 27, 2020

9:30am - 2:00pm (16.5 hours)

  • Check-In with Barrow and Special Collections goings-on
  • Finished up LibGuides
    • Engineering History redux
      • Another instance of absolutely frustrating LibGuides habit of deleting work!
    • Cleveland Cartography and Surveying
  • Lunch discussing IWASM, professional paths, history of Cleveland, projects of Special Collections in the past such as the restaurant photo rescue and the beginnings of Cleveland Memory
  • Took a look at Astronomy subject holdings in Cleveland Press Collection
  • Ohio Outdoor Sculpture (OOS) overview

January 28, 2020

9:20am - 1:20pm (20.5 hours)

  • OOS project discussion
    • Researched sculptures in areas of Ohio that aren’t covered in the database and make preliminary entires for them
    • OOS entries added: 3

January 30, 2020

9:25am - 1:25am (24.5 hours)

  • Discussed LibGuides update
  • Discussed what Barrow is doing for the day
  • Discussed OOS procedures
  • OOS entries added: 11

January 31, 2020

9:30am - 1:30pm (28.5 hours)

  • Bill not in
  • OOS
    • Found 25 statues/sculptures in counties not in the OOS system with information links and street
      • Gathered 15 street view photos
      • Uploaded 2 complete entries
  • LibGuide links updated

February 03, 2020

9:30am - 1:30pm (32.5 hours)

  • Discussion of various digial Special Collections projects with Barrow
    • Cleveland Memory Crowd Sourcing and Backlog
      • Student worker going through corrupted and misprocessed image packages and correcting
      • 14 people doing metadata creation
      • Review of metadata before upload
      • Bureaucratic steps of such a project
    • OOS
      • Overview of missing counties, focusing on doughboys and Civil War monuments
      • Discussed possibility of and past attempts to contact Ohioan sculptors
      • Discussed the feasibility of adding women sculptors and sculptures of women OOS tours
    • Discuss possibility of doing a CM backlog project
  • Uploaded remaining 13 street view sculptures
  • Took a look at feasibility of women’s sculptures/sculptors
    • Compared Omeka collection vs. Omeka tours (not super satisfied with either)

February 04, 2020

9:35am - 1:35pm (36.5 hours)

  • OOS women’s tour
    • “sculptures by women” tagging (100 completed)
    • All instances of inverted names corrected while tagging
  • OOS counties coverage
    • Doughboys list
    • Added 4 entries
  • Limits of Omeka found again and again; hard to mass edit with basic Omeka

February 07, 2020

9:35am - 1:35pm (40.5 hours)

  • Cleveland Memory Crowdsourcing background, set-up, memo, best practices guide
    • Memo/Best Practices: A searchable list (even Ctrl+F list) would be helpful for already approved/used subjects
    • “Date Original” write exactly the date as written on photo or in a certain format?
    • “Location Depicted” guide
    • “Time Period” guide
    • “Subject:" how to list/separate (semicolon vs. comma)
    • Do you want the photo verso to be transcribed every time if there is a newspaper clipping?
  • Canadiana packet reviewed and metadata submitted for approval

February 10, 2020

9:25am - 1:25pm (44.5 hours)

  • Memo edit review
  • Canadiana metadata review + discussion of writing articles for Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (ECH) and/or Cleveland Historical
    • Made basic draft of entry
    • Edit Canadiana metadata
  • Work on American Foundrymen’s Association Metadata
    • Submitted for approval

February 11, 2020

9:30am - 1:30pm (48.5 hours)

  • Canadiana entry for ECH
    • Case Western guidelines reviewed and implemented
  • Rewrite ECH article for Cleveland Historical

February 13, 2020

9:40am - 1:40pm (52.5 hours)

  • Cleveland Historical Project Overview and Public Submission Guidelines
  • Discussion of how to write Cleveland Historical articles
  • Canadiana, Jim Vinci, Diamond Jim’s, Rosemary Vinci newspaper research

February 14, 2020

9:30am - 1:00pm (56 hours)

  • Canadiana Cleveland Historical Draft and Packet
    • Initial draft
    • Review for word count and style guide
    • Gathered and converted photos
    • Formatted references
    • Supplied suggested tags and subjects
    • Created draft packet and submitted to Bill

February 18, 2020

9:25am - 1:25pm (60 hours)

February 20, 2020

9:25am - 1:25pm (64 hours)

  • Roldo Metadata Cont.)
    • titles, dates, and repeated information review finished

February 21, 2020

9:35am - 1:35pm (72 hours)

  • Subject and description for Roldo Cleveland Edition begun
  • Barrow Tips:
    • Name of newspaper in subject
    • Subject: topic of the column; name of people and places of main topic; general subject matter;
    • 2 purposes: accurate idea and link common items
    • Point of View used as reference

February 24, 200

9:35am - 1:35pm (76 hours) HALFWAY

  • Canadiana article for Cleveland Historical published on Saturday (2/22/20)
  • Sent dates for photos to be updated on the article
  • Roldo Cleveland Edition cont.)

February 25, 2020

9:25am - 1:25pm (80 hours)

  • Roldo Cleveland Edition cont.)
  • Update Canadiana metadata packet with Cleveland Historical article link
  • Meet Metadata Librarian soon (back from maternity leave)

February 27, 2020

9:30am - 1:30pm (84 hours)

  • Roldo cont.)
  • Met Marsha Miles: Digital Initiatives Librarian of CSU
    • Sent her Cleveland Edition Roldo spreadsheet for review of metadata
  • Canadiana for Cleveland Encyclopedia update

February 28, 2020

9:20am - 1:20pm (88 hours)

  • Google Sheets vs. Excel Crowd sourcing discussion with Barrow
  • EAD project for LibGuides discussed
  • Cleveland Historical Article posted on Facebook (Barrow's and Cleveland Memory's pages)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Dates and volume/issue review for 577 Cleveland Free Times items while Marsha checks over subject and descriptions

March 02, 2020

9:30 am - 1:30pm (92 hours)

  • Roldo cont.)
    • Dates and volume/issues for Cleveland Free Times finished
    • Cleveland Edition subject and description cont.) [thru 168]
  • [Barrow sick, I'm doing metadata at home]

March 03, 2020

9:20am - 1:20pm (96 hours)

  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Edition subject and description cont.)
    • [thru 212]

March 06, 2020

9:25am - 1:25pm (100 hours)

  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Edition subject and description cont.)
    • [thru 242]
  • Talked with Miles about meeting to discuss ContentDM and Roldo
  • Discussed splitting Cleveland Encyclopedia entry into Canadiana-specific and Vinci-specific entries

March 09, 2020

9:20am - 1:20pm (104 hours)

  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Edition subject and description cont.)
    • [through end]

March 10, 2020

9:25am - 1:25pm (108 hours)

This was the last day I was able to physically come to the library.

  • Conservator Talk 9:40am - 12:20pm
    • Building humidity trays and drying stack to uncurl and unfold photos and documents before rehousing (next session is rehousing in a few weeks (cancelled due to COVID-19))
    • Grant-funded project I was able to sit in on for the first half! Super cool!
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Clean up Cleveland Edition
    • Start City News [2]

March 18, 2020

12:45am - 2:45pm (110 hours)

Most work log entries from now on consist of recording the amount of entries I was able to complete during each work session while under the stay-at-home order.

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • City News [20]

March 21, 2020

11:30am - 1:30pm (112 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • City News [36]

March 25, 2020

10:00am - 2:00pm (116 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • City News [57]

March 26, 2020

8:00pm - 10:00pm (118 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • City News Finish

March 31, 2020

12:30pm - 2:30pm (120 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times Start [30]
    • Only subject headers required per Miles' suggestion

April consisted entirely of completing the metadata for the Roldo Bartimole newspaper clippings project. Almost all work log entries for April consist of recording the amount of entries I was able to complete during each work session while under the stay-at-home order.


April 01, 2020

10:00am - 12:00pm (122 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Check-in with Barrow
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times [50]

April 02, 2020

10:15am - 12:15pm (124 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times [79]

April 04, 2020

10:33am - 11:00am; 11:45 - 1:18pm (128 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times [114]

April 04, 2020

10:22am - 12:22pm (130 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times [155]

April 06, 2020

12:15pm - 2:15pm (132 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times [190]

April 08, 2020

7:00pm - 9:00pm (134 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times [225]

April 17, 2020

12:30pm - 2:30pm; 7:30pm - 9:30pm (138 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times [290]

April 18, 2020

12:30pm - 3:30pm (141 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times [342]

April 20, 2020

2:00pm - 4:00pm (143 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times [376]

April 21, 2020

1:00pm - 3:00pm (145 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times [420]

April 27, 2020

8:40pm - 9:40pm (146 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times [440]

April 28, 2020

1:45pm - 2:45pm (147 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times [460]

April 30, 2020

6:30pm - 8:30pm (150 hours)

  • At Home (Social Distancing)
  • Roldo cont.)
    • Cleveland Free Times [515]