Despite the theater department archive project only being a thing since the start of this semester, I feel my leads and I have covered a lot of ground. I would say we are still in the planning stages for the project, since we do not have any direct courses of action as of yet, but we are working on ways to accomplish our major goals. Those being figuring out where to put the images, and digitizing the images that need it. As of now, we are looking into potential technology to digitize the photo slides we have available, and we’ve narrowed down our options to the specifications we need. It’s just a matter of finding one that works and purchasing it, which I think shouldn’t take long at all. However, the other goal I mentioned isn’t quite as in reach. Finding a suitable way to host the archive was one of my first tasks when I joined. We figured our best bet was hosting the archive through the communications and marketing department, since they also take a lot of the photos in productions. However, after meeting with the campus photographer, things with that department don’t seem too suitable for us at the moment. That can change with the possibility of them moving to a new content manager, but a goal like that is not guaranteed. As of now, this endeavor has been put on hold and we shifted our focus to digitizing. Our next steps will be going through and digitizing the slides we have once we have our scanner. We still have to work out a place to save those digital copies, but I think OneDrive is our go-to at the moment.