Open a Box: Behind the Scenes with a Prints & Photographs Staff Challenge
Posted by: Kate Phillips
Every other month, staff in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division come together for a “Learning Hour,” a time dedicated to knowledge sharing, training, and discussion. This month’s session took the form of a challenge: each participant opened an unfamiliar box from the collections and reported back on what they discovered. How is the collection arranged and described? What might a researcher encounter when using it? How could access be improved? This week’s post highlights some of the insights that emerged from that exercise.
Posted in: Photographs, Prints, Series: Behind the Scenes