Week 27: Mission Completed

I completed the metadata for one my digital projects, the A.P. Tureaud Digital Collection. The project files highlight the historical material Tureaud collected, ranging from slave deeds, reports, receipts, military documents, and poetry written by and about creoles in New Orleans. Also, I completed several email reference requests for researchers.

For professional development, I attended the Inaugural Sylvia R. Frey Lecture at Tulane University, which included a keynote lecture address from distinguished University Professor from the Department of History of Maryland, Ira Berlin. His lecture, “Atlantic Creoles in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Slavery’s Long Evolution,” focused on Berlin’s perspective on connections between the Caribbean, the Gulf South, Europe and Africa, and marked the conclusion of the Global Gulf conference of 2012.