This Fall we were very pleased to welcome Sarah Fowler, a senior at Old Dominion University , as a Library Intern. Sarah assisted with a number of projects in the Library. We'll certainly miss her, but you can look forward to reading some of her observations about the Library on this blog in the coming weeks. Here's what she had to say about some of the projects she completed:
"I have been working on a wide variety of projects while interning at the library. I began by working with the books that were in need of conserving. I had to go through a large stack of books and piece together those that had fallen apart. From there I had to try to identify the books. This was challenging because many of the books were in other languages like German or French. My next step was to wrap them in acid free paper and then to search for them in the library’s catalogue. I enjoyed this project because I am interested in conservation.
My favorite project involved a box of old photographs. For this project, I had to go through a box of photographs and try to determine the date on which they were taken and who was in the photograph. The box I was working on contained a collection of photographs from the 1950’s of a meeting of NATO in Norfolk. There were also hundreds of photographs from the collection of W.L. Parker who was a former director of the Board of Trustees for the Chrysler Museum. The subject of these photographs was often historical places and landmarks. For example, he took many photos of Colonial Williamsburg and the campus of the University of Virginia. This was my favorite project because after opening an ordinary box I got to discover a lot of interesting photographs and learn a little about who took them and why."
- Sarah Fowler, Fall 2009 Jean Outland Chrysler Library Intern
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