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I'm Taylor Kriskoviak.
I am a-- currently
a second year.
I first started working
in special collections
when I actually
saw a job posting.
I came across this really
nifty sounding job,
with digital curation
services, and saw
that it involves
scanning rare materials
and handling rare documents.
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The Jefferson
Letters project was
a really unique and
fantastic project,
and really showcases
a lot ways what
is so incredible
about this studio.
We were actually
fortunate enough
to have received a
grant from the Jefferson
trust that allowed
us to purchase
a multispectral scanner.
We went through the entire
Jefferson collection
of all the images that we've
already scanned, and identified
ones with ink splotches,
cross outs, anything else that
otherwise would have
rendered the text illegible,
and decided to scan these.
And with a lot of them, we had
some really fantastic results.
They came out really quite well.
And we're actually
able to submit them
to several scholars that had
individually requested items,
and were able to read
things that they hadn't
been able to read before.
So that was really
extraordinary,
and personally rewarding on
a lot of different levels.
Especially as a
history major myself,
being able to look at
documents from Thomas Jefferson
was not something one
gets to do every day.
This is a uniquely
UVA experience.
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