Sarah Lewis, Archivist

Projects

My MLIS program at San Jose State University (2021-2024) included many hands-on projects to apply and practice archival principles. Here are a few examples of projects I particularly enjoyed and exhibit my growing knowledge and skills.

Archiving Websites with Archive-it

In this project from a Digital Curation class in December 2023 I worked in a group of three to curate a collection of websites to archive with the web archiving tool Archive-it. We chose a group of Balboa Park museums. I learned how complicated website can be, and how difficult that type of archiving can be. I learned a lot about websites and troubleshooting web crawls.

Newspaper Photo Morgues Research Paper

For my managing Photo Collections class we were able to pick a topic for our reserach paper. I am fascinated by large newspaper photo collections, often called newspaper photo morgues. How do repositories process these collections, which can often be very large? I enjoyed learning about this topic and the resulting paper gives helpful insight into processing large photo collections and making them available. Click to read "The Challenge of Processing Newspaper Photo Morgues," April 2023.

Digitization Project Plan

For a digitization class, I picked a small collection and wrote a plan to digitize. The planning process included addressing issues such as selection criteria, condition, copyright, technical considerations, and includes metadata examples. This paper outlines a real-life scenario with a collection held by the Lemon Grove Historical Society. Click here to read "Project Planning: Lemon Grove Promotional Brochures," April 2024.

The Ringling Summer Internship Video

For two months in the summer of 2024, I moved to Sarasota, Florida to intern at The Ringling. Working with historic circus material was so much fun, and it was nice being a part of an intern cohort. The interns gave a video presentation to staff at the end of the internship in the PechaKucha format. In this format, you have 20 slides that automatically advance every 20 seconds. It was a bit of a nerve-racking format, but I think the resulting video does a good job summarizing what I learned.

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