small steps

    I have made little progress this week. Partially because I am out of state. But I have been emailing the librarian at the AAM trying to work out a schedule. I am planning to go in for a half day each Monday. Which is fine with him except that the next monday is Labor day So all I can manage is to go in on my lunch break a couple of times next week.
     My initial thought for the project was to find out what sort of items the curators would find most useful from the Brundage archive and make those available digitally through a program similar to the one we use to put images from the collection. But since I made a visit to the Chevron Corporate archives last month I have been considering other options. At the Chevron Archives the archivists present a more finished report the filtered facts rather that giving requestors the raw materials.
     So I have begun to wonder if it might be more useful to create a database of provenance. A sort of family tree for the collection pieces. What I need to do is formulate a questionaire for the curators and find out which type of format would be most useful to them. I have never tried to compose a questionaire, so this will be my first challenge.