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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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