Lily Mayfield's Practicum at Chicago History Museum

Yesterday, I completed my last day of my practicum at the Chicago History Museum.  And with it, for all intents and purposes, my MLIS degree as well! As I was researching names, I used a rubric to denote the certainty of the women's recovered names.  I was able to complete the updating of authority records with all the names marked with a "1" (certain). This past week, I began reviewing the names marked with a "2" (possible, needs more research). After spending a little more time on those names, I was able to verify and then update authority records for many of those names as well. Over the course of the summer, I was able to recover the names of 147 women and correct the authority records and bib records to reflect the recovered names.   There is so much more to do though!  There were over 500 items in the spreadsheet, and that's just women's names in the cartes de visite collection.  I made some headway, and I hope that more students, volunteers, and i...

I am now in the third week of updating authority records and bibliographic records to reflect women's actual names. I made some screenshots which you can see here, to show what the records looked like before I made changes.  Here is an example of the authority record for Mrs. George Adams before I made changes: Original authority record for Mrs. George Adams, from carte de visite collection at Chicago History Museum Here is the updated Authority record, with name now listed as Adele Foster Adams: Updated Authority Records for Adele Foster Adams from carte de visite collection at Chicago History Museum For some of the women's names, I found that there was already an authorized heading through Library of Congress (LCNAF).  So for those records, I had to download the MARC record for that individual, then import it into Horizon.  I would then open the MARC record imported from Library of Congress and merge it with the old record we had which did not include the woman's name....