It’s Sunday and I’m back to work!
We had an AMAZING time in Alexandria, probably one of the best weekends of my life. Alisha & Lila were the perfect travel partners & the trip was the ideal balance of sightseeing, relaxing and laughing. I posted some pictures on Facebook which you can see if we’re friends, otherwise I’ll be putting a lot on Flickr tonight.
I’ve also written up a description of the 4 projects I’ll be working on over the summer:
Hassan Fathy Architectural Archive
This is a collection of blue prints, photographs and other materials relating to Hassan Fathy, a renowned Egyptian architect. This project is in its beginning stages, with only a small percentage of the materials scanned and ready to be put online. I will begin creating online finding aids for the collection, using XML format. This will be great practice in using EAD [electronic archival description], a skill that will be very helpful in my future career.
Mahmoud Farag Vice Provost records
I’ve been given this unprocessed collection to sort through and describe and to then give recommendations on what to deaccession, what to migrate to other offices and what the archive should hold onto. There are 31 boxes that have very little order to them. Right now I’m going page by page, documenting what’s there. It’s pretty tedious, but being involved in the decision making process will be very rewarding and great experience.
Archive-It Collection Development
AUC has a subscription to the service Archive-It, a service that crawls webpages and holds a copy of the website at the time of each crawl. You might have heard of the “Wayback machine,” – it’s the same thing. I’ve been tasked with developing a new collection of websites to be crawled and archived – these websites should be within the scope of AUC’s collecting policy and should provide unique and worthwhile information. The topics I’ve begun to research so far include expatriates in Eygpt, Egyptian news and politics, Egypt & the environment, development in Egypt and gender equality in Egypt.
Social Media Plan
Lastly, I am developing a social media plan to increase the visibility of the RBSCL. This will mainly involve creating a Facebook page and Twitter account for them, as well as updating and promoting the blog they already have. Because I want them to be able to continue to use these tools after I’ve left, I’ve prepared a lot of information on what these services are, how to use them, how frequently they should be updated and given samples of the times of information to post.
Well it’s back to work for me, but I’ll leave you with a photo of myself and this wonderful stack of books in Alexandria.
Cheers!
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- Posting pictures & expanding networks
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- The zoo, books, bands & new tattoos!!
Sunday, May 9th, 2010, 3:25 am | 
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