More Multi-tasking

I spent a large portion of the day training my practicum student. I started her on the acetate discs from the School of Music. We went over Dublin Core, Library of Congress subject headings, degredation signs of acetate discs, and re-housing. I sort of felt bad diving in so soon, especially because she had so many questions, and I hope I answered all of them. The first time I had to do that sort of thing, practically, I had already done it in class, and I've been around acetates from my grandparents' collection since I was a child. She asked a lot of good questions, and I hope I did a decent job explaining things today.

I also reviewed folder-level processing for photograph collections with my part-time assistant. I've been having her read Roe, and I have finally found a decent example of organization within the large collection I'm having her work on (after I spent so much time in the unprocessed sections last week). My next concern for this project is this: limited to an EAD finding aid, how do I accurately organize and describe digital folders of digital photos that have been taken by the day or week, without moving the photos around. I know the most effective way to do this would not use EAD, but Dspace, or another database system, but that is not an option--what has been established as a standard at the Archives is what will be used.

I have ordered supplies for several projects over the last two days, and will have to continue that tomorrow.

The rest of my day was spent trying to validate the A/V website pages. I'm having problems with and

tags that somehow appeared on some pages when I edited the pages in a WYSIWYG view. I don't know coding proficiently enough to write an entire page in code, but now I'm paying for my shortcuts. Or rather, I will continue to pay tomorrow...