{"id":11986,"date":"2013-09-11T21:20:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T21:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/oregon-multicultural-archives\/?p=11986"},"modified":"2013-09-11T21:20:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T21:20:34","slug":"mtg-ko-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/2013\/09\/11\/mtg-ko-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Miracle Theatre Group Archives Project ~ 2 Month Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Miracle Theatre Group Board Documents<\/p>\n

Two months ago, OMA intern Katrina O\u2019Brien began her project to process the archives of the Miracle Theatre Group. In her first blog post<\/a>, she took photos of the collection and began taking initial steps to get the two rooms filled with materials organized for her to have a workspace and know the overall amount of content within the collection.<\/p>\n

Check out her two video tours of the collection:\u00a0Video 1<\/a> and Video 2<\/a><\/p>\n

Over the course of these past eight weeks, Katrina\u00a0has been working\u00a0to create an organization scheme for the collection,\u00a0diligently rehousing the documents into archival boxes, and\u00a0weeding out the duplicates for recycling.\u00a0She has a blog that she updates weekly: Katrina O’Brien’s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are a few highlights from the Miracle Theatre Groups Archives Project:<\/p>\n

Week 3<\/p>\n

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After getting a sense of the overall extent of the physical collection, it was essential to begin to tackle the collection intellectually. Katrina created an Excel doc with an inventory the collection documents (image on left) and then from that a subject list (image on right) to use for the creation\u00a0of the organizational scheme for\u00a0the\u00a0collection.<\/p>\n

Week 5<\/p>\n

The next step of course was to begin to match the intellectual organization with the physical documents…<\/p>\n

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Week 7<\/p>\n

Along the way there have been some interesting finds including notes of appreciation from audience members, artwork, and special tickets…<\/p>\n

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Week 9<\/p>\n

And, as the archival collection begins to take shape, the\u00a0pile for recycling grows as well…<\/p>\n

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In total, Katrina has accomplished a lot these past two months including:<\/p>\n