A Semester with SCUA: Insights from My Archival Internship at UCF by Sofia Arias
Special Collections & University Archives Posted: December 3rd, 2024Hello, everyone! My name is Sofia Arias, a senior graduating with my bachelor’s in history this semester at UCF. This Fall 2024 semester I was able to join the University of Central Florida’s Special Collection & University Archives (SCUA) team as the processing intern.
My work mainly consisted of surveying and processing the Robert H. Brown tourism collection, a collection of vintage travel postcards and documents capturing the tourist experience during the twentieth century – it’s a pretty big collection, so I made sure to take plenty of notes while processing so I’d be able to keep track of all of the materials in the collection and their locations. Once I’d finished surveying the collection, I drafted a processing plan – a document that would help me sort the collection into an order that not only made logical sense but would help future researchers find what they needed in a timely manner. After finishing my processing plan, I was finally able to begin rehousing materials into working order.
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