Public+Library+Internship

This wiki is designed to house the contents of my electronic portfolio for my Public Library Internship at the Burke County Public Library (BCPL) in Morganton, North Carolina.

Click here to access my blog. There are 28 entries, one for each day I spent at the library. I logged a total of 122 hours, not including some readings done at home, from January to May of 2012. I met with the library director, Jim Wilson on Friday, January 6 and he gave me copies of the BCPL policy manual, long range plan, technology plan, and renovation project plan for the Valdese branch. I was able to read and review these documents before beginning my internship hours on January 30.

Click here to access my Internship Checklist.

To see photos taken during my internship, including photos of artifacts, click here to go to my photostream on Flickr. The Flickr photostream includes some of the photos from my blog but also includes additional photographs or image files.

Files: This file is a Word document I created with instructions for data entry for archival items. The instructions and data entry sheet will be used by volunteers who collect data on the archival items.

This file is an Excel spreadsheet that I reorganized and modified for archival items. Data from the data entry sheet will be transferred to this spreadsheet by the NC Room Curator.

This is a Word document I created with a listing of cub scout requirements related to family history. I taught a group of cub scouts in February, 2012 how to begin genealogy work and introduced them to to the resources available through the Burke County Public Library NC Room. Items highlighted in yellow indicated skills that scouts attending the class were able to complete as a result of their class attendance and participation. This idea for this class was originally given to me by NC Room Curator, Gale Benfield. She said that she often gets scouts in the NC room who are interested in family history research. The class that I taught to the scouts lasted about an hour and I introduced them to some basic family history terminology, research methods, and resources available at the BCPL using a power point presentation I had created during my ASU Genealogy class. There were 12 cub scouts in attendance.

Thanks!

--Laurie Johnston