Candy in the City: DC edition

So I just got back from a week, well, almost a week in D.C. It was a chance to have a mini vacation while expanding my archivist education. I had a pretty well-planned schedule before I got up there. 

Day One- Tuesday- Start my internship

Day Two- Wednesday- Day One of IS&T Archiving Conference

Day Three- Thursday- Day Two of IS&T Archiving Conference

Day Four- Friday- Day Three of IS&T Archiving Conference and Local Natives concert at the 9:30 Club- in reality it was Ditch Day spent sleeping in and wandering around DC and going to the concert alone with a free ticket that I won from WNRN.

Day Five- Saturday- Day Two of my internship.

Internship:

So I am an intern again! I was selected from a group of applicants to help research associates create indexes from records at the National Archives under the title of Citizen Archivist Project. We're mainly working on creating lists of those who have filed pension claims to the Committee of Revolutionary Claims. We're on the 20th Congress at this moment. For the social media aspect we have a Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Citizen-Archivist-Project/160910240738002

a Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/ArchivalCitizen

as well as a blog:

http://citizenarchivistproject.blogspot.com/

So I will be trekking up to DC once a week for two days, letting both of my jobs miss me during my absence, also whoring myself out for a bed at various friend's apartments.

Conference

I attended IS&T Archiving Conference at the National Archives. As someone interested in Digital Archiving I decided to give this conference a try. Turns out it was a little too soon in my career to attended this conference. I kind of wish I waited until this week to attend the Computers in Libraries Conference, which I am checking in on on Twitter.