DEAR MR. MEREDITH PRACTICUM BLOG

Dear Mr. Meredith:
PRACTICUM BLOG

Welcome to the

Dear Meredith Practicum Blog!

Here you will find blog posts that chronicle the

journey of my Practicum for my

Archives & Special Collections Graduate Certificate

at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Endings Are Just New Beginnings

November 20th - November 27th, 2022 I have finally come to the end of my Practicum! I completed 150 hours of transcription and...

Telegrams, Postcards, and Postage

November 13th - November 19th, 2022 Every time I open one of the pdf letters, it's like a little treasure. I never know what I am going...

ANOTHER Hurricane and My New Research Assistant

November 6th - November 12th, 2022 Well...Murphy showed his true colors once again and we got hit with Hurricane Nicole. This time it hit...

Microagressions

October 30th - November 5th, 2022 The letters that I am transcribing are ones that are pro-integration. However, even though the letters...

Slow and Steady

October 23rd - October 29th, 2022 As it turns out, typing with one hand is incredibly difficult. Who knew? My Practicum Advisor had told...

10/10 DO NOT Recommend

October 16th - October 22nd, 2022 Ever hear of Murphy's Law? No? Well, it is the purest definition of my life, so here it is: Murphy's...

Midterm

October 9th - October 15th, 2022 We have reached the halfway point of my Practicum and I had a Zoom meeting with my Practicum Advisor and...

Handwriting and Meredith Red Markings

October 2nd - October 8th, 2022 HANDWRITING! Some letters have handwriting that is really easy to decipher and are quick to transcribe....

We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program...

September 25th - October 1st, 2022 To bring you Hurricane Ian! I live on the Space Coast which is on the eastern side of Florida so we...

Rinse and Repeat

September 18th - September 24th, 2022 For the most, this project is fairly straight forward... I review and download pdfs of letters,...

How the Letters Are Saved

September 11th - September 17th, 2022 When working on a large project such as this one that will involve many moving parts and quite a...

GAME. CHANGER.

September 4th - September 10th, 2022 One of the hardest parts of transcribing from home is that I have been doing it from my laptop with...

Transcribing History

August 28th - September 3rd, 2022 One of the coolest aspects of this project for me is getting to be a part of sharing this history with...

Review and Download

August 14th - August 21st, 2022 To begin this project, I will need to open links in an Excel document that were provided to me by my...

And So It Begins...

July 5th, 2022 Today I met with my Practicum Advisor via Zoom! I’m doing an archivist internship for my Archives & Special Collections...