Apr. 13th, 2010 04:03 pm
Work + Family History Intersect
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mizarchivistToday has been a day of doing little fiddly things at work. I have accumulated several dozen folders/ledgers/debris that can actually be added into an existing collection. The problem with making this happen is that you have deal with several factors:
1. Does the addition alter the existing guide?
2. Do you have to bring down the existing collection to piece it all together or can it be definitively determined where the new piece will go?
3. Does a catalog record have to be deleted after?
4. If the guide is altered, then you must repost it to the website. As it turns out I am stuck not doing #4 until R. comes back from her week-long conference because wherever those live in the web server is uber-buried. But it's something that can wait. I just make a list. As long as it's not just one thing, I'm not likely to forget to do this necessary step. If one is going to the trouble of adding, people should have an accurate guide.
OK. enough exposition. One of the collections in question had an agenda (woo, council meetings- excitement!) for the day of my dad's 18th birthday, so I called him up, gave a brief run-down of why I was calling and asked if he had a good birthday that year. I admit I don't necessarily remember all birthdays. I don't know if I could tell you what I did for my 18th, other than I was probably taken out to dinner by my almost-boyfriend, Dan. (The Ex).
Dad's involved going to the bar he'd been going to all semester and that was the night that he was finally carded for the first time, much to the chagrin of the bartender/bouncer. I also got to hear about him going to Lake Erie College for his first classes as a freshman. --- what was it? a high-level geometry and a law class. Gr. I forget exactly. But not the sort of classes a freshman takes. What, not astronomy 101?
Anyway. I'm glad I called. Thanks for the story, Dad. Now I should probably stop procrastinating and finish sorting the council minutes.
--- right- and here's a report on my birthday, 1966, so 9 years early. I believe my mom was about to turn 18 in the next month, so a senior in high school. Prom time?
1. Does the addition alter the existing guide?
2. Do you have to bring down the existing collection to piece it all together or can it be definitively determined where the new piece will go?
3. Does a catalog record have to be deleted after?
4. If the guide is altered, then you must repost it to the website. As it turns out I am stuck not doing #4 until R. comes back from her week-long conference because wherever those live in the web server is uber-buried. But it's something that can wait. I just make a list. As long as it's not just one thing, I'm not likely to forget to do this necessary step. If one is going to the trouble of adding, people should have an accurate guide.
OK. enough exposition. One of the collections in question had an agenda (woo, council meetings- excitement!) for the day of my dad's 18th birthday, so I called him up, gave a brief run-down of why I was calling and asked if he had a good birthday that year. I admit I don't necessarily remember all birthdays. I don't know if I could tell you what I did for my 18th, other than I was probably taken out to dinner by my almost-boyfriend, Dan. (The Ex).
Dad's involved going to the bar he'd been going to all semester and that was the night that he was finally carded for the first time, much to the chagrin of the bartender/bouncer. I also got to hear about him going to Lake Erie College for his first classes as a freshman. --- what was it? a high-level geometry and a law class. Gr. I forget exactly. But not the sort of classes a freshman takes. What, not astronomy 101?
Anyway. I'm glad I called. Thanks for the story, Dad. Now I should probably stop procrastinating and finish sorting the council minutes.
--- right- and here's a report on my birthday, 1966, so 9 years early. I believe my mom was about to turn 18 in the next month, so a senior in high school. Prom time?
Not forgetting