Vella Voynova
As Watson Library fellows, Emily Schmidt and I documented Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibitions for the MMA Images Project. By searching each exhibition in the Watsonline catalog, Watson’s Digital Collections, and the Met’s digital assets management system, we collected information that will help the library to digitize and cross-reference the Met’s exhibition catalogs and installation photography. In the middle of a pandemic, the MMA Images Project was an opportunity to get acquainted with Watson’s systems and to contribute to its long-term goals despite us never having been on site. In this presentation, I will discuss our search process and interesting finds, as well as the experience of completing a remote fellowship.
Vella Voynova
Vella Voynova is an associate archivist at The Moth. She is pursuing her MSLIS and was one of Pratt's 2020-2021 Metropolitan Museum Watson Library Fellows.