Thursday January 18, 2018

Today was my first day of my archival practicum at the Mississippi College Archives.  Since the staff at Mississippi College had been backtracked by the weather, it was agreed upon that I would come in at 9:00 instead of 8:00. Due to still slick streets after the bad weather, I kept my time driving to the college in order to avoid injury and arrived at 9:0 5a.m. My onsite supervisor, Ms. Heather Moore, is the Special Collections Librarian of the Leland Speed Library Mississippi College. She gave me a full tour of the Mississippi College Archives as well as the library as a whole.  It was very insightful and reinforced what I learned on my initial visit three month ago.  My first assignment of my practicum is digitizing the microfilm records of Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Newton, MS.  Even though I have much experience handling microfilm readers, Ms. Moore instructed me on how to handle the device as well as the given software.  I took a break for lunch in the breakroom at 1:10p.m. and returned at 1:40p.m. The microfilm records of Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church are comprised of church meeting minutes and notes.  They are all organized according to volumes.  I did have a few technical difficulties but was able to scan all of the first volume and half of the second volume.  I left the Mississippi College Archives at 4:35 p.m.