Week 23: Dear John (Letters)

The third series of O’Neal’s papers, Theater Groups, is complete!  After writing the series description, I begin to arrange documents for the fourth series, Correspondence, which consists of O’Neal’s personal and professional letters involving his relationship with family members, personal love letters and several communications with Free Southern Theater board members. Most of the letters, dating from the late 1950’s and early 60’s, were personal in nature and included correspondence from students at Southern Illinois University, O’Neal’s alma mater.

For professional development, I attended the Association of Southeast Research Libraries’ Introduction to Digital Preservation Webinar, based on the Library of Congress Digital Outreach and Education (DPOE) modules. This first module, Identifying and Selecting Content, examined considerations when identifying and selecting content for long-term preservation.

Next week I will attend the webinar, Storing and Protecting Content.