Week 4, July 6-12

One door closes, another opens. After spending the last few weeks working on the Lieber Collection, I have now finished what my predecessor started. I was able to add two new tabs to the spreadsheet. The titles of the final two tabs are "Lieber Collection-Other Printed Resources" and "Lieber Collection-Ephemera." The former category consisted of books and articles, primarily. As I worked through this list I had to make some interesting decisions. For one, the last resource on the LLOC website for this category only had one URL but there were over a dozen sources listed with relevant metadata. I could have taken the easy way out, but I decided to input this data in the spreadsheet. This prolonged my completion by a few hours at least. Also, I often referred back to the old LOC website for the Military Legal Sources. Much of the data I used from their submissions were minutiae I submitted into the Note section. For the latter section, "Ephemera," I was able to use resources that are atypical of the what I had worked with before. Whether it was a bookmark, telegram, or a postcard, it allowed me to look at resources in an interesting and new way. If you are interested in checking out my the completed spreadsheet, go to the deliverables page! Here you can find the completed Lieber Collection. Remember, I only began at row 1189 on the first tab.

Now I am moving on to the Historical Materials section. I am looking forward to this next facet of the project!