Progress!!!!

Abby and I have been finally able to get to the majority of our collection, with the rest of it coming out of storage THIS WEEK!!!! Barring any condition issues, of course...but that's a discussion for class.

Thus far, we've been going through and checking what we received from the Webb Estate from an inventory list that came with the BPL's accession of the collection. We've discussed the processing of this collection as we've gone along (there's been plenty of time) and have begun to create a more complete inventory. Abby started inventorying the items removed from the Cab room on Friday, and we plan to revisit the items we've already gone through and inventory them as well Tuesday.

We've heard word that the items we are still waiting for in the Cab room are going to be the first out, as they are conveniently located in front of everything else, so hopefully we'll be able to experience our full collection sometime soon. As I mentioned, there have been some condition issues, but we'll know more about those once the cleaning begins.

A big thanks has to be given to Aaron at the BPL, as he has been so so patient with our constant ".....so about the Webb stuff in the Cab room...." questions. He had mentioned to us last week that he believed he could get some Webb works out on Tuesday so I went in for a couple of hours just to be available. He rushed at the end of his day to get some items out (pre-vacation, nonetheless) and I felt SO BAD to pressure him so, but hopefully my constant apologizing conveyed this and didn't annoy him...

ANYWAY. Things appear to be back on track for time being and we are excited to be able to explore the remainder of Nancy's works which we truly enjoy. We continue to learn more about her through the materials received by the library as well as by examining her work itself; just Friday Abby discovered that she conceals her name and the year the work was completed in many of her works from the 2000s!