My last day on the job found me grasping the reality that I might have to come back to finish up my last project–because I just cannot leave anything undone! I managed to get arrangements made to launch the Special Collections Blog. Andrew Welp, the scholarly communications assistant, provided the space and support to create the blog. However, we ran out of time getting the first post up.

I did get items digitized and a blog post written. I have decided (and it’s been approved) that I will return before classes start in August to put together the blog post, including the digitized items highlighted in the post. Still to do: annotations for the digitized items, metadata, and making sure the home page for both the Irwin Library and Special Collections highlight the blog. We will also make sure that the blog is launched with appropriate advertisement from the marketing department.