Weeknotes: 05/12/24-5/18/24

weeknotes teaching museum music books

This Week:

It was finals week at Hartwick, and my Collections Management students had their final class, which largely consisted of them finishing up the project they spent the last month and a half working on: cataloging the excavated material from Hartwick Seminary. They did a fantastic job, working well together and individually. I’m really proud of them and the work they did.
I spoke to some students about summer internships and projects that they are working on.
We did some planning for our summer programs and activities at the Museum.
I did some work on collections research for a potential set of acquisitions.
Dominic and I finished reading “Wayside School beneath the Cloud of Doom”. We also started reading “Journey to the West”, which so far, we’re both loving.
I finished reading Cory Doctorow’s “Walkaway” which I liked overall, though found the characters to be a little wooden–not unusual for a utopia. Mostly, it made me want to 3d print giant things, like houses, furniture, and clothes.
With some sadness, I bought a copy of Shellac’s “To All Trains”. WE’LL BE PIRATES!