Another day, another Stairmaster session…

....maybe I should start calling this blog the “Stairmaster cronicles” =)

SAASC update: Part of the things we do with the Society of American Archivists Student Chapter is to take tours of various archival repositories around the area.  Yesterday, I took a group of our members to tour Stanford Universities Special Collection’s department.  We had a great guide, Sean Quimby who is the Assistant Manuscripts Processing Librarian with their Special Collections.  He did the “wow” tour first, including letting us see, touch and hold items like an original page from the Gutenburg bible, an original Shakespeare folio from 1685, a signed copy of a first-edition James Joyce “Ulysses”, a first edition Huck Finn which was first published in England, a beautifully illuminated manuscript of the religious “Book of Days” from the 14^th Century and my personal favorite, an original and complete Samuel Johnson Dictionary!  We were also able to go ‘behind-the-scenes” and see the manuscript processing department and ask all the technical questions regarding the physical process, as well development policies.  I really look forward to many more tours like this!

Other activities going on with the SAASC – I will be attending the “Western Round-up” (horrible name) for the annual meeting of Western archival associations, including the California Archival Association, of which I am a member as well.  The meeting is in Las Vegas, April 14-16.  It will be a quick and very busy trip with little time to “do” the town, but a great way to make some industry connections.

One more paper is done with only the Bibliography (my least favorite part) to write, along with corrections from my proof-reader.

Now just two mid-terms and a quiz till we leave on vacation next Friday – eek!