Demonstrate
Demonstrate life-long learning skills by continually acquiring new knowledge, skills and perspectives to respond to changing conditions.
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The archival profession has undergone major changes in the past 10 years: EAD (Encoded Archival Description)’s version 1.0 was released in 1998, Meissner and Greene published their groundbreaking More Product, Less Process article in 2004, and DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard) was just approved by SAA in 2004. I knew that, when I chose a practicum site, I wanted to work in an institution that was adapting and changing according to these emerging standards and best practices.
Becky Schulte, the University Archivist at Kenneth Spencer Research Library, which began encoding and displaying EAD finding aids in 2005, agreed to allow me to work in the manuscripts processing area for the majority of my practicum. With Audrey Coleman and Darrell McNamara's instruction and supervision, I re-housed, did minimal arrangement, and learned to create EAD finding aids for 10 collections of KU’s University Archives Personal Papers. In doing so, I gained a practical understanding of what had previously been abstract concepts (EAD and MARC in archives). In addition, I gained some much-needed confidence in my ability to adapt to and even thrive in a more technical environment than I had previously experienced.
