Description
Curriculum and theory meets practice at Special Collections, where graduate students are responsible for processing a collection, from creating a processing proposal, to arrangement, to deselection of materials, to creating the finding aid, real world experience is gained and students have a finished product available for researcher and patrons at the end of the semester. Knowledge River Scholar and Student Archivist Michelle N. Boyer-Kelly addresses her work processing the Dr. Jack August, Jr. papers (MS 774), and fellow Knowledge River Scholar and Archives Graduate Assistant R. Rose Reza addresses her work processing the Alison Hughes papers (MS 771) alongside her work digitally curating the Udall Brothers: Voices for the Environment online exhibit. This poster showcases the work, context, and clashes with the "archival self" present in Boyer-Kelly's and Reza's projects as Knowledge River Scholars and archivist acolytes with the University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections over the course of the 2021-2022 academic year.