On the second day, I went to the Smithsonian security office to get my super cool intern ID. I can now enter any Smithsonian facility without going through bag check and I get a 20% discount on food and merchandise. Oh yeah!
Then I walked to the Museum shuttle pick up area to wait for the shuttle. Waiting feels like forever sometimes! The shuttle finally came to pick me up to go out to the CRC.
At the CRC, I met my supervior Kara. She showed me my desk, gave me some information about getting my e-mail and we worked out schedule. She also explained the project that I will be working on. The details for now: I am working in the Collections Information Systems department (CIS) and the Collections Research and Documentation unit. I will be entering data into the NMAI's collections database KE-EMu. From what Kara told me, I will be working in conjunction with the Repatriation department to research and help figure out how to input a collection of human remains into their database. I will explain in more about the project later when I start working on it.
For the rest of the day it was mostly making sure the technology was working like the phone, e-mail, and the database. I also went through the book of a training manual and played around with the database in order to get familiar with it. Well it's like I had anything better to do.
There will be no posts for Wednesday this week because I was working at the Archives. Thursday I will be back at CRC for KE-EMu database training!
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