Written by Dan DelViscio
I’ve spent a wonderful nine months here at Delaware
State University, but my fellowship is unfortunately winding down now. So I want
to take this opportunity to thank everyone here at the William C. Jason Library
for being such great working colleagues. It was truly a pleasure to meet and
work in the same environment as all of you.
I’m happy to say I will be walking away from this
job with a better understanding of archives and archival work. I’ve learned
that it takes much more than just knowledge of processing collections and
organizing them into nice neat document boxes. It’s having the ability to
juggle multiple projects. It’s corresponding with colleagues and doing
the proper research to ensure all the right information is available to
researchers using the collections. And it’s working in an intelligent manner
that ensures accountability and integrity.
I didn’t know much about Delaware State University
before I came here from Philadelphia, but having immersed myself in the
collections and reading about the history of the university I can definitely
say I’m better for the experience. My main responsibilities were to process two
major collections transferred to the archives by the Office of Public Relations
and the Office of Alumni Relations. Both collections are photographic in
content and contain depictions of some of DSU’s earliest students, faculty, and
presidents. The collections will definitely be integral resources in the DSU
archive’s holdings and I’m truly proud to have worked on them.
I will definitely be using the things I’ve learned
here in my next job, but I hope to come back some time and see how everyone is
doing, and hopefully to see the new archives space complete with an archival
exhibit. I wish Rejoice the best going forward, and hope the archives at DSU
continues to grow in its new location on the first floor of the library. Thanks
everyone!
