January 13, 2020 (Monday), 9:00-5:00pm:

Hours completed: 7.5

Total hours completed: 140.25

My last week! I am happy to say that I was able to complete the reformatting and final proofing of the labels for the St. John’s Church exhibit! Dave looked them over, asked for one change, and approved them (2.5 hours). Although minor, changes to the project labels were often very time-consuming due to the way they were laid out in the Photoshop project and the efforts to keep space fully economized, so it was no small undertaking to finish.

After Dave’s final approval, I printed and cut out the labels onto cardstock and then arranged them in the exhibition (1.5 hours).

Greg stopped by to check in on which SJC collection items still needed to be photographed, so we spent some time tracking down some items in the collection that had lost their ID numbers (1 hour).

When student worker Ellie arrived, we went upstairs to the makeshift humidification chamber location and removed the relic authentics from the ad hoc chamber. Dave had not removed them the previous week, so we all got the chance to go and complete the process. Finding them damp enough to not risk tearing them, we gently unfolded them and laid them flat to dry. (30 minutes)

Two of the three other documents (all with pre-existing water damage).

Finally, I showed Dave what I had completed for the introduction text of the SJC exhibit. We discussed some pitfalls of label text and how difficult it can be to speak to a broad audience of both experts and novices in relation to the subject matter in combination with the somewhat politically-charged issues relating to explaining what the religious and ritual artifacts are used for in a way that does not offend (2 hours). We discussed the overall goals for the introduction, settling on in essence, introducing the church, its connection to Creighton, the history of some of these items being used for a large part of the church’s history (complicated by the fact that many of the items are undated, so we don’t know for how long), and briefly explaining how to use Zappar, the AR mobile phone app utilized in the exhibit.