By: David Peck

The Lovell-Kane Area Museum took steps recently to upgrade and modernize their archiving and display methods, hosting a visit by Linda Sampson, a project archivist with the Roving Archivist Program of the Wyoming State Archives Department on August 28.

Museum board president Karen Spragg said the museum has needed a better inventory system for archiving collections, and Sampson paid a visit to help with the upgrade.

“When we get a donation or a loan, we fill out paperwork and it’s coded, and we need to get that in the computer on a spreadsheet,” Spragg said. “She was helping us be more efficient with it. And we don’t have anything in the computer. It’s all paper copy right now. She set up a whole spreadsheet.” Read More

Wyoming State Archives

July 18, 2024

Contact: Linda Sampson, Project Archivist, Roving Archivist Program, 307-777-7550, linda.sampson@wyo.gov, https://rovingarchivist.wyo.gov/home 

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