Day 68

Today was shorter than normal since Ive got class in the morning, but when I arrived I went back to work on the WWI spreadsheet. I went through ARGUS and copied down the classifications for each item according to the Nomenclature. Once I've finishied with that, I plan on photographing each artifact and transferring the photo into ARGUS.

Day 67

Today I started out by taking all of my label information and other research and plugging it into ARGUS, so it can be referred to later on. Once I returned from class I gathered a little bit more information and photographs for my biography on Quiren Groessl.

Day 66

This morning I reviewed the Bellin labels and they were good to go. Trevor showed me how to print them and I took them down to teh Clean Room and mounted them on some heavy cardstock. Then I found some mounts which I wanted to use and we gathered everything up and took it down by the schibit. The Bellin people were still finishing up, so I went to class and when I returned I placed all the artifacts in teh case, mounted the labels, and Trevor and I closed everything up.

Day 65

Today was pretty much slow all around. I got some feedback from Trevor this morning about the label for teh portable xray machine and the labels are pretty much ready to be printed. The Bellin guys finished up the grunt-work of the exhibit so on Monday we can print off the labels and start to piece the exhibit together.

Day 64

This morning I assembled all of the medical artifacts that I hadn't chosen to be part of the exhibit and I took some time out to find where they belong and I put them back in storage. I then checked over the portable x-ray machine and got some patent and copyright info which allowed me to do some further research. I found out that it is one of the first "shockproof" portable X-Ray machines and I changed the label to reflect that. My afternoon shift consisted of mainly proofreading and finding out anything else about the stuff before the final labels are printed.

Day 63

This afternoon when I arrived I talked with Trevor and he showed me how to format the labels on Microsoft Publisher. He had received the Portable X-Ray Machine from Bellin and I made a tentative label for it, but I will need to brainstorm and make it a little better.

Day 62

This morning went really slow. I was on the computer in the Collections office since the one in storage was being used and no one was around to unlock the Library. There wasn't much else that needs to be done (I think) with the Bellin labels, so I think when I return this afternoon Im gonna track down Trevor and see if there is anything else he wants me to do with them.

This afternoon, Trevor gave me the specified font and text color that Bellin wants them to be and I copied everything onto Microsoft Publisher and changed the font and color. I need to leave a few minutes early so I cna ge to the bank and pay Ellen's car payment, but I plan on asking Trevor tomorrow about which letters, if any, are in BOLD and any indentations, etc.

Day 61

Today I brought my digital camera with me. Trevor had suggested that I take pictures of the artifacts that I selected for the Bellin exhibit for my portfolio, and I'm glad he did, because I wouldn't have thought to do that otherwise. So I layed out all the items I had pulled from storage and took pictures of them to catalog for my final portfolio. I also saved to my flash drive all of the research reports I had done so far and I can turn those in as well. I spent the reest of the morning and afternoon sprucing up the labels I have and did some more research just to make sure that I didn't neglect any cool information about Bellin and 20th century medicine.

Day 60

This morning I was pretty much down in the Joe Heller exhibit. John went up on the pneumatic lift and I pushed him all around the room while he moved some flood lights around and got the lighting of the exhibit just right. That ate up most of my morning. However, prior to that I was able to alter my labels a little bit more and I mentioned it to Trevor. He let him know in passing that I had changed them and he made a few more suggestions which I implemented in the afternoon. I used my last few minutes of the day to send an e-mail off to Matt and Carolyn Groessl. They are grandchildren of the man I am writing a biography about and they have been most helpful by offering to answer any family questions I have, especially concerning their grandfather.

Day 59

Today I did a little work in the Library as far as research goes. Then John asked me and Emily to help mount some plexiglass over the cartoons in the new exhibit. These are mostly political and current event cartoons drawn up by a local newspaper artist who is still working. I like this a lot better than the abstract hippi crap that was there before. Anyway, after I returned from class I took a trepanation tool which was part of the surgical kit I found a few days ago. This tool was used around 1900 to bore a hole in the patients skull and relieve pressure. I asked Trevor if I could make the artifact its own item instead of leaving it part of the kit itself. He said it was fine and I did a quick research run and wrote up a label for it.

Day 58

When I arrived this afternoon, I decided to take another look at the medical artifacts in storage and I came across a surguical kit used by Dr. Brett, who sold his practice to Dr. Bellin, and it had some really cool tools including a bone saw. The problem is that it was used c. 1900 and all fo the bulky artifacts would be at the beginning of the case since Bellin wants it to be chronological. It would therefore be visually unbalanced.

Day 57

Today I met with Trevor and went through the artifacts I organized. He gave me a few pointers as to what other things I might want to incorporate into it and a few things I can do with my labels. I started to look through a few other places to find information, but my time was limited so I could only do so much at the end of the day.

Day 56

Today I did a little more diggin and found some patent information about a few of the medical artifacts. I am up to about seven identifiable pieces which can be put in the Bellin exhibit. Trevor wanted to postpone meeting with me until tomorrow, so I have a little more time to gather some more information.

Day 55

Today I started to research more of the years for the artifacts. I have almost all of them done except the ones which look the same as when the device was first invented. This makes it a little more difficult to research. Its not as big of a problem as I had imagined, since Trevor said that not all of them would likely fit into the case and I could pick and choose which ones I wanted in the exhibit. I'm gonna meet with him on Monday and see what we have to work with and talk about which items would fit geometrically best in the case.

Day 54

Today I arrived and finished the last of the artifact labels that I needed to do. I am currently at 11 artifacts, but would like 12 just because I'm weird like that. Its rather difficult to find things which meet the criteria. I would like to feature something which encompasses the idea of wellness and preventative medicine, since that was what Dr. Bellin pioneered. When I returned after class, I started to find out the years some of these things were used in, but no luck. That is gonna take some work.

Day 53

Today was a shorter one again since I had class in the morning. I spent most of the afternoon researching the years the artifacts were used or made in. I am now up to 11 medical artifacts for the Bellin Exhibit and I am hoping to gather one more.

Day 52

Today I was back and forth between Storage and the Library. Emily was on the back computer, so I gathered another medical artifact and went to the Loibrary to write something up on it. When I got back from my class, I started browsing for more medical artifacts and write up some more stuff on the existing pieces. I took a short break to look into a bullet which Trevor had. A few weeks ago, he found a bullet (bullet only, not the entire cartridge) on the floor back in Collections. He didnt know what it went to and when I arrived back this afternoon, I brought with me a digital caliper and a magnetic scale which I use to handload my own ammunition for competitions. I found out that it was a 150 grain 30.06 round with a diameter of .308". I told Trevor that it was for one of the 1903 Springfields and that it was made by FNM out of Salt Lake City.

Day 51

Today I continued to work on the labels for the Bellin Exhibit. Trevor stopped in and liked what I had so far. I gave me some advice on my labels, because as my concern was all along, my labels had information, but I didn't convey any sense of interest in it. When reading it in my head, it almost sounded monotone and really boring. So I took some of Trevor's advice and revised a few of them. Once I returned from my class, I took a walk around the WWI exhibit and a couple other places and took notice of the labels that were used and found some nice examples.

Day 50

Today I began to gather more information on the artifacts for the Bellin exhibit. I took a small break to help Louise and Larry move some large pieces of art so Larry could photograph them. I then went back to what I was doing until I needed to leave for class. Once I returned, I roamed around the storage area looking for a few other artifacts which encompassed the idea of wellness and preventative medicine, but found nothing.

Day 49

This morning, I was without a computer for the most part, so I gathered a few more interesting artifacts and put them on a staging table. I was then able to get on the computer in the Library and enter them onto my list. I worked on a few more labels and then I had to leave for class. When I got back I only had a short time to add more descriptions for some artifacts, then I had to leave for work.

Day 48

Today was relatively brief. I had the morning off and once I finished my afternoon class, I had to run and pickup my cap and gown for graduation as well as the tickets for the commencement ceremony. So once I arrived I didn't have as much time as I usually do, but I was able to roam the medical artifacts and find some really interesting stuff to include. I'll be picking up from there tomorrow.

Day 47

Today I started out gathering some medical artifacts off the shelves. I replaced them with the green cars to account for their location and Louise gave me a table in which I could stage all of them. Ive got about a half dozen and will need about another 4-6 cool medical artifacts which people will be interested in. I started working on the labels for the exhibits, but although I have no problem plugging a bunch of information into them, they lack whatever is needed to make them "pop".