Things that are not especially helpful on the morning that you need to drop your car off for its MOT before getting the train to London: Your sunrise alarm going off silently.
Behind The Scenes! π¬ Ahead of our 175th Anniversary this January, a small team of #IMechE staff led by #archivist Lucy Bonner visited key locations relevant to our foundation & met with some of our #Birmingham members to discuss the rich #EngineeringHeritage in the #Midlands
i made this instead of looking at my email inbox
"types of #archives papers"
ALT cartoon of academic papers with satirical headlines about archives. these read: DIPLOMATICS: never gonna give up, never gonna let you down, no, your closet is not the archive.
just stop using the word archive, AN INCREDIBLY USEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL CASE STUDY PUBLISHED IN A SMALL JOURNAL, audiovisual archives are terrifying
and a/v archivists are metal as hell
PLEASE PAY US LIVING WAGES, PLEASE
we should give stolen stuff back
we still don't know how to describe things
finding aids:
what are they actually? does anyone know? lets find out
oral history is really neat!
digital preservation is REALLY really hard
we scanned some things and put them on omeka
racist paper by random white man 'inexplicably' published in leading journal