I was recently contacted by the wonderful Lisa Schell, Archivist and Outreach Coordinator for Allied Vaughn in Livonia, Michigan. She let me know that AV was looking for interns for a new project. I applied and was accepted and am now working on archiving the media for the Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame located in Lansing, Michigan.
Currently 3 interns, including myself, are working on re-housing materials that consist of VHS tapes, Beta tapes, U-matic tapes, cassette tapes, and a few other odds and ends. We are also charged with writing a custom finding aid, complete with biographical information about the MWHC and the key figures in its creation.
A big part of the project is converting all of the legacy formats to DVD, so that they can be watched for (hopefully) a lot longer than other formats. AV has a huge machine in the back that converts formats and I've been back a few times helping to label the DVDs with the information provided on the tape.
In a few weeks we will be listening and transcribing cassette tapes which contain oral histories.
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