Practicum at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
This practicum was designed to demonstrate my proficiency in working in information while providing an opportunity to exploring working for a religious institution. My primary project was to create a spreadsheet where we could gather the metadata about the various pictures taken during St. Andrew's more than 140 year long history. Then I needed to input enough records to ensure the system was sustainable and write an instruction manual for the next user. To complete this project I needed to work with the congregation to provide the information needed for the spreadsheet. By displaying the images in the parish hall during coffee hour I found names flying into my office, and the details of our history coming together. The goals which are being met during this project are:
- Obtain familiarity with the search patterns and information needs of religious institutions
- Demonstrate the principles of information management by organizing a collection of information.
- Develop an instruction manual detailing the organization schema and technology tools used to ensure a non-librarian user will be able to maintain the system after the completion of the practicum.