Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory's Works Progress Administration Record Collection

The Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory houses records created by the Works Progress Administration (ca. 1930s). TARL was interested in digitizing and organizing the WPA records so that accessibility is increased for patrons. Working with only the Lake Buchanan and Marshall Ford Reservoir sections of the entire WPA collection, I worked to develop a workflow for digitization, as well as, a guide for processing that will be utilized by future workers to process the rest of the WPA collection and other collections held at TARL. Another focus was to make the ingestion of records into the created database easier going forward. To accomplish this we reworked the naming conventions and aspects of processing to make this easier for volunteers and other such personnel.