1. Smithsonian Gardens: Archives of American Gardens/ Garden History & Design Bella Wenum University of South Carolina Summer 2013

2. Ba c kgr o und I’m from Columbia, South Carolina B.A. in History, Geography minor, University of South Carolina, May 2009 MLIS, University of South Carolina, August 2013 Concentration: Archives and Information Science

3. S o … wh a t ha v e I b e en do i ng a l l s u mm e r? Cataloging Archivists’ Toolkit Training Processing SI Staff Picnic Blogging Inventory Gardens of the Mall Tour Metadata Public Tagging Initiative Social Media Research Finding Aids Digitization 35MM Slides DAMS Digital Preservation Data Content Standards

4. Ca t a l og i ng Workflow: -Create garden description from submission material -Cataloging worksheet: 5 images, subject terms Horizon -Create series (garden) level record, item level records Opportunity to become familiar with data content standards -DACS, AACR2, LC Authority Terms, LCSH, AAT (Getty)

5. Pr o c e ss i ng co l lect i on s, f i nd i ng a i ds McComb Collection: 230 35mm slides Jane Simpson Series: GCA Collection Inventory -Created box lists to preserve original order of collection Created a finding aid for the McComb Collection Opportunity to learn DACS Culling

6. A r ch i v i sts’ To o lk i t Open source database for managing archival collections Two workshops with SI EAD Coordinator -Archivists’ Toolkit Refresher -Using Steady with Archivists’ Toolkit Favretti Finding Aid & McComb Finding Aid -Enter collection and accession data

7. Publ i c T a gg i ng In i tiat i ve Manage “Tag-It-Tuesday” activity on Facebook and Twitter Users describe images exactly the way they would search for them, which increases the discovery of collections

8. B l og s and M i nu t es One Minute Reports for Garden History and Design Committee -Short articles that are included in the GCA bulletin. -Topics: Mazes and Labyrinths, Night Gardens SIRIS Blog posts -I contributed three posts to the SIRIS blog -Topics: Thomas D. Church, Night Gardens, Community Gardens

9. A d ve n ture T i me ! Hillwood Estate The Holocaust Memorial Museum Jefferson Memorial Lincoln Memorial Ford’s Theatre Arlington National Cemetery Discovery Space Shuttle NASM NMAH NMNH Hirshhorn Library of Congress The Capitol Fireworks on the Mall Madame Tussaud’s Jazz in the Sculpture Garden National Cathedral National Archives US Botanic Garden Watergate Complex Union Station

11. W h at I ta k e aw a y f r om th i s e x per i ence… Gained valuable skills and experiences I lacked that will enable me to confidently continue pursuing a career in archives and special collections Handling archival material, processing collections, digital preservation Got to live in DC for a summer!

12. Thank you for a great summer!