Las Colinas Women's Association Collection Folder labeling and Oral History



Labeled folders with collection #, box #, folder #,
folder name and dates
Photo by A. Blythe, 2018


Friday, July 13

Today, I worked on the Las Colinas Women's Association Collection.  I had finished combining all the folders into boxes that had space remaining and creating two new boxes.  The next step was to label the folders.  Each folder while I was working on the collection had sticky notes on them with the following information:  Collection #, Box #, Folder #, Folder name and Date.  I had remembered from a class discussion that it was important that each folder had this information for it would identify which collection these folders belonged.  I used a pencil to write the information on the folder tabs and made sure that all of the information that I had wrote on the sticky note was on my finding aid rough draft.  As I was labeling the folders, I removed all the stickies from the folders. I realized that it was time consuming to make sure I had written all of the information from the folders but I knew it would assist me in creating the finding aid later on. I remembered that the more detailed the finding aid was the better one can find material within the collection.  Once I had finished labeling all of the folders within the collection, Kevin came and looked over the boxes and was pleased.  After that I went and worked on the Oral History project.

I had not finished transcribing Clyde Story's interview since I had to put in the side conversations throughout his interview.  I continued working on Clyde Story's interview until it was time to go but I did not finish it liked I had hoped I would.


Labeled folders from Collection 96, Box 4, Folders 1-5
Photo by A. Blythe, 2018
All of the stickies that were
 removed from the folders.
Photo by A. Blythe, 2018
Rough draft of finding aid
Photo by A. Blythe, 2018






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