A few weeks ago, I had been given a new finding aid template, but on closer inspection it did not seem like it was really going to work for a predominately art collection finding aid. There was two columns to describe the collection: container number and description. In the Art Collection more columns are definitely appreciated when you need to include accession numbers, dates, medium, titles etc. After talking with the art cataloguer about how this is going to work, she started talking with the archivist and learned that the art collection can just ignore the updated finding aid template and stick with what they have been already doing! I’m very happy with this development as it solves the issue of what order to put those descriptive elements, and having column again will make it easier to transfer the information I already have typed out in spreadsheets for every item. This will definitely decrease my workload in that respect.
This week I also wrote the biographical sketch for the artist/collector. I tried to look for some articles written about her and in the journals she published in, but quickly realized that they all had used information that EP herself had written. So instead I looked to the books she published herself and her website to find the information I needed and piece it together chronologically and thematically.
I hope to hear back from EP by next week about some inconsistencies in the records, so that I can begin accessioning.
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