Reflection On Jason Gumm In The Glenville State College Archives Center

A great impact that I witnessed that year is when I took the school field trip to numerous colleges close to the city. I had never been to a university or even a community college. Therefore, me going to those visit gave me a greater idea on what type of college I'd like to attend. One of the colleges I remembered we toured to was Lakeland Community College. I really liked the aspects that it has, with the classrooms even the on campus living. Taking trip like that sets your mind up but also prepares you to know what to expect and look for when you are college searching.

It taught me how to be a leader. As I went through each step of the senior project,

History is one of the classes that I’ve always put to the side. Because, between the names, dates and different facts, and stories. It just has never been I think relatable to me. Therefore, I end up losing interest on the class. But, found myself relating to the different topics. I think the main focus on the Native Americans, seeing their suffering, and struggles. Which I can relate to up to a certain point as a minority, made me want to be a part of the discussions, I wanted to put my “two cents in” making it easy to understand the different topics, and giving me a connection to the rest of the class.

Many do not know that the IMA houses two different libraries. The Stout Reference Library and the Horticultural Society Library provide numerous resources for their visitors, which mainly consist of students, IMA Staff, docents, collectors, researchers and even members of the community. The Stout Reference Library “focuses on the encyclopedia collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, while also providing general information about art and art history of all periods.” (Stout Reference Library, 2017) The Horticultural Society Library “houses more than 2,000 volumes, including general reference books and books on landscaping, specific plant families and horticulture.” (Horticultural Society Library, 2017) I mention the libraries because this semester, I am technically considered a library and archives intern at the IMA. My mentor however is the archivist, Samantha Norling. She has done impressive work at the IMA in such a short time. She jump-started the Archives online portal, which consists of thousands of digitized items from the archives. The IMA received a “generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)” (Documenting Modern Living, 2017), that allowed for 17,000 items from the Miller House and Garden archival collection to be digitized.

Most of the things I learned from this experience was a sense of purpose, cooperation, and expansion of knowledge dealing with the various forms of discrimination, as well as oppression. As the semester passed, I felt like I was finally advancing towards a career field that fits me. The topic/subject made it to my list of fields I may want to pursue when I attend a University, which is another benefit gained from my class. Like many other high school students, my mind ponders on the thought of what I truly want to pursue in college, so this was a huge step for me. Oakland Community College gave me the opportunity to test the waters and depict an idea of what attending a University may be like, so that is to say how much one can really learn from an experience like mine. Another thing I learned was that not everything can be done at the last minute, the way you imagined it should be. There should be an excessive amount of planning and thought that goes into completing certain assignments and projects, I remember staying up on some nights just to complete two to four essays. As guilty as I am, sometimes working under pressure motivates and builds my energy up. There times when I would try to work on the assignments during my break at my job and even start on the outline of my

Just like any library, ancient special libraries, also known as archives, where created to preserve and keep records of specific materials, such as business documents that were written on clay tablets at that time or papyrus scrolls that were about personal or business matters. At first, general libraries were mainly focused on providing educational materials for the adult population; however, libraries have gone through great transformations. Now-a-days, the libraries’ purpose has widened and now they focus on providing any needed information, educational or leisure materials to people of all ages and types of their communities (Rowland, Collection). Also, now public libraries have partnerships with school libraries and academic

I have to let the readers know how I stumbled upon this topic to introduce where I get my ideas from. It all started in the archive located on the second floor of the library in a dark corner behind a clear glass doors at the Hunter College. I have been attending Hunter College for four years and never have I stumbled on such an amazing place full of live history. I say live history because all the documents and books that are held in the archive are all preserved originals, which fascinated me. Thinking how people who lived more than century ago wrote and read the same things I’m writing and reading about excited me to my very soul. Archive research though fascinating is not an easy task that can be done in within fifteen minutes like how researches are done these days using convenient technologies at hand.

Mr. Williams gave me a tour of the facility. The repository is located on the fifth floor of a beautiful new building which is an addition to the library. It is a 140,000 square foot building with many new amenities for the students. The fifth floor also holds the library’s historical collections, a state of the art archival storage and also houses a special area for archival preservation. I was also able to take a look at the beautiful rare books collection, which are set up in glass door bookcases, inside a meeting room where

While attending Monterey Peninsula College I have met many professors and classmates that have helped enrich myself both academically and socially. My anatomy professor helped me by being so open to answering all of my questions during office hours, as well as working with other classmates during open labs. My Gender and Woman Studies professors have enlightened me by opening my eyes to other cultures and leading me to put myself in someone else’s shoes.

I came to college knowing, that so much of what I was over the first eighteen years of my life would be put to the test. Not simply because I was a conservative, in a liberal environment, but because I would be faced with four years, in a place that was in such

“Working in the Archives: Practical Research Methods for Rhetoric and Composition” is a comprehensive guide for aspiring scholars to navigate research. In chapter --, Lyenee Lewis Gaillet addresses the need to instruct students how to use the research archives and recognize the philosophical assumptions that lie in the worldview of the researcher. Gaillet gives precautions concerning the interpretation of facts, which provoked reflections of my experience processessing artifacts. I took an internship opportunity in a small for-profit museum in Midway, Georgia, a rural town haunted with deep colonial and Civil War history. My primary task was to transcribe unprocessed documents from the museum’s archives.

I felt this course has become extremely helpful in learning about and understanding United States history and gave me better overviews of all the significant events that shaped the United States into the great country it is today. So many things I have leaned about in this course were quiet magnificent. The most important thing that I noticed about history is that it’s always changing. No matter how much evidence we have of the past, the way we look at the past can be distorted in many different ways.

Something I have learned this semester that is bigger than what has been presented was the realization of the women of this country, who had gone to work during World War II, while the men had gone to war. I never really knew how important this opportunity had been as a turning point for all women in regards to having the ability to prove they could contribute to society and to the patriotism of this country acknowledging the accomplishments of fulfilling the same jobs the men had been involved in.

I learned a lot from them as they learned a lot from me. The trust we had enabled us to develop bonds, mature, and open up to the freshmen. We established a comfortable

Interest depends on the individual choices. Books and papers archive can be done by individual, organizational, institutional and governmental. Interest in archiving is a good to a habit. If one is willing full to maintain and study things on historical grounds then it is a perfect platform for him. From the above discussion it can be concluded that one should make an effort towards the charitable work. And it is a good habit to maintain and value the literature and knowledge. The archives vary from big collection to small gatherings. Anyone can take part in the archiving