Our crew’s professional reading today was the proposed user metrics document created by a SAA and ACRL/RBMS* joint task force.
Sound boring? It’s not at all! And it’s incredibly important work because in the end, pretty much everything archives do …
The September ’09 copy of Arctic, the journal of the Arctic Institute of North America landed in our mailbox today. This is a little unusual since A&SC doesn’t actually subscribe to any journals, so the next possibility is, hey, …
One of our occasional joys is when we get to see the finished product of researcher work. Sometimes that’s a student paper, sometimes a National History Day presentation, sometimes a documentary, sometimes a webpage, sometimes a book. Or any other …
Or a day in the work life of, anyhow.
Here’s a sample of the things the archivists in A&SC worked on today:
Nicole: Nicole continued proofing the transcript of the Glenn diary in preparation for bringing it online.
Mariecris: Mariecris …
Today one of our email researchers requested permission to publish five images she’d found on the Alaska’s Digital Archives website. She also requested high resolution copies of the images since the ones posted on the Digital Archives are only 72 …
