So we arrive on the 4th floor and right by the elevator is this huge scanner. I mean this is no ordinary scanner but this clearly really expensive and high tech machine. It was pretty impressive to see it in action. About half an hour in, Laura Cepero joined us and got a pretty good idea of what we would be sending her way so all of these scans could be uploaded through RICHES. To make a very long morning and story short, it took us about an hour to understand how the scanner work and to get it to the correct settings. It took another 2 - 2 1/2 hours to finish scanning everything.
While the work clearly wasn't hard it was exhausting since we were trying to get every detail correct. I am really proud of the work we did and the staff at the library were incredibly helpful and really interested in the items we brought along with us. I really could not have done all of this by myself if it wasn't for the team effort. So a major thank you to everyone who was there with me.
Wednesday was a pretty short day due to a death in my family so for the short time I was there I spent it updating the spreadsheet attached to the images taken for the documents in the Vanderpool file.
Before I finish up, here are a few photos I took on Tuesday.
The Orlando Public Library
The scanner of all scanners
Dr. French and one of the staff members trying to help us figure out how to work the scanner (that's Christine in the background)
Dr. French saving all of our images
So that's all for now. By the way this is my last week interning at the MHM. I'm sure it will be bitter sweet saying goodbye. This internship really went by so quickly.
-Ambar the History Student
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