On Day 3, I continued going through my box of Memorial Day photos. I found a couple of pictures of Governor Tom Carper (D, 1993-2001), which made it far easier to nail down a date for that set.

For Day 4 (this past Friday), the volunteer manager had myself and another volunteer go through cataloging basics. Even though I've already done cataloging, I appreciated the refresher. Plus, as I've learned, every museum does things different- a true universial standard for cataloging doesn't really exist.

I really like the collection we went through yesterday- the donater had brought memorabilia pertaining to his mother's, father's, and his own days at the University of Delaware (the late 1930's/early 1940's and the 1960's, respectively). It was really cool to see the mother's dance cards from all these dances from circa 1939-1941, complete with little pencils. That was back when University of Delaware had a men's college on the North Green, with the women's college on the South Green, and back then there wasn't as much interaction between the men and the women of the school. It was also interesting to realize that this was just a few years before most of the male students would drop out of Delaware to go fight in WWII.

As for the 60's, I found a 1962-1963 student code of conduct book, as well as a lot of student athletic schedules. There was also a sideline pass for a UD/Rutgers game, which was interesting, because I don't think Rutgers and UD play football against each other anymore. There was also an interesting UD magazine that talked about the plans for building Morris Library- I cannot tell you how much time I spent in that library when I was in high school and college. It made me think about how UD seems to be on a constant building spree- since the 1950's, the only period where there wasn't constant building would be the 1980's, when the number of college-aged people contracted sharply. Right now UD's on a major building mission, but it makes me wonder what'll happen when the baby bust of the late 1990's and 2000's starts to hit colleges.

The memorabilia made me wish I could've gone to school in the 1960's, though- we found a booklet that listed tution for the entire academic year as being $1,120. You can't even go to community college for that anymore! LOL.

All in all, it's really nice using my skills again, even if I'm not getting paid for it.