I was so pleased to learn this summer that the Oak River Foundation had decided to fund another year of the archives project at the Peabody!
I also hope to begin developing sustainable digitization workflows for some of the archival material, help with reference requests, and continue an oral history project about Scotty MacNeish. I am very happy to be back at the Peabody, continuing this work. Since starting back up here in early September, I have mostly been working on organizing and inventorying internal museum records like loan, exhibition, and NAGPRA records.
These records might not have huge interest for outside researchers and, as is common for institutions, are typically restricted for 25 years after creation for privacy concerns , but are important for staff members in the course of day-to-day collections management and ongoing repatriation efforts.
If you would like information on how you can help please contact Peabody director Ryan Wheeler at rwheeler andover. A few weeks ago I began trekking down to Cambridge every Tuesday evening for the class Principles of Editing , offered through Harvard Extension School.
I signed up for the class as I was looking for something that would help me to improve and polish our lesson booklets and other educational materials as we share them with the public. Christina Thompson, editor for the Harvard Review, has structured the class to teach lay people how to produce good, clean copy when editing material such as blogs, newsletters, websites, brochures, and other text.
