Since June, I have been
working as an intern at ACCI in the collections department. As my brief time
here comes to an end, I feel so grateful to have had the opportunity to come
work at ACCI. This spring, I finished my Masters of Library and Information
Studies degree at McGill University’s School of Information Studies, and came
to Oujé-Bougoumou shortly after. ACCI was a great fit for me because it is
entirely community-based, and because it includes so many different facets of
what makes up a cultural centre—a library, museum, archive, and educational
centre.
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| Nailisa Tanner at ACCI archives |
The two main projects I
worked on during my internship were appraising a large donation to the library,
and processing two different donations to the archives. Working alongside
Annie, ACCI’s librarian, we appraised over 1000 books donated by Dr. Harvey
Feit—to read more about this collection, read Annie’s post about the project here.
I tend to pay a lot of attention to design,
so one of my favourite parts of this job was seeing the covers of some of old
books we appraised. You can come visit the ACCI’s library to see all sorts of
questionable graphic design choices of the past!
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| Harvey Feit’s donation to the library |
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| A government publication from the 1960s, part of Dr. Feit’s donation |
