16 Oct 2024
At times like this, you just have to hope the area you are researching isn't where the hole is! ๐
#ArchiveProblems #InTheSearchroom ๐ธ : D/EPB/P1 - Map of Coleshill, 1666.
ALT A hand drawn map with a hole in the centre.
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7 Jun 2024
The #Jesuit Archive holds a lot of AV material, including many video cassettes -- but no #VCR to play them on!
#VCRDay #ArchiveProblems @ArchiveHashtag
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12 Oct 2023
Two @UofNorthDakota History classes have visited back to back! I can barely talk. #archiveproblems @UND_CFLibrary
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10 Mar 2023
When you KNOW you've seen something particular in the archives BUT CANNOT RECALL WHICH COLLECTION.
Ugh. #ArchiveProblems
#MarshallFoundationLibrary
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21 Apr 2020
Geez! I only found a coupon from the 1970s which offered $0.10 off a box of Mac & Cheese with a $0.03 handling fee and that the customer must pay sales tax. ๐ฉ #archiveproblems
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9 Oct 2019
This week from the #HCArchive....
Since @explorearchives have asked us to share our #ConservationNightmare this month, we thought we share this lovely little Illustrated Guide to London.
Used as an editorial copy, it has glue, pins, pen and all sorts in it! #archiveproblems
ALT Photo of 'Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood'. The cover is red leather with the title picked out in gold in a circle. A sticker on the cover reads 'File copy'.
ALT Photo of an illustration of the Houses of Parliament pinned into the front of the 'Illustrated Guide to London'.
ALT Photo of pages from the 'Illustrated Guide to London'. There are sections of the text crossed out, and notes written in the margins and glued in at the bottom of the page.
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Archive Portland (weed shop) vs. City of Portland Archives (not a weed shop). After quickly looking up the address a researcher almost just headed off in the wrong direction. #archiveproblems #pdx
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22 May 2019
Accessorising a summer dress with a warm cardigan because, letโs face it, Iโll be underground most of the day #archiveproblems
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21 Feb 2019
Happiness is ... not having to agonise over the use of 'Miscellaneous' to catalogue something #archiveproblems Thank you to the late, great Edwin Morgan - poet, word wizard and fabulous filer ๐๏ธโญ๏ธ
ALT Colour photograph of file boxes labelled 'Miscellaneous Correspondence' by poet Edwin Morgan, from his papers in the University of Glasgow Library
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10 Jan 2019
Yay for King Cake season! But unfortunately working in an #archive means no food in the office ๐ #archiveproblems #nostickyfingers
6 Jan 2019
Itโs officially King Cake (and Carnival) Season! ๐๐๐
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29 Dec 2018
How is it that every other dela I want to look at in GARF is over a 100 pages long? #archiveproblems
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We are not a commercial footage house, I say over and over. I will gladly spend time looking for footage of "street scenes" or "sunsets" or "summer workers" but I will start charging you and I will put it in the queue behind everything else we have going on. #archiveproblems
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15 Oct 2018
15 Oct 2018
For those of you enjoying our packaging designs, we've just uploaded images for about 1000 constructed items - including these marvellous non food items. Be warned we have a unusually large amount of yogurt pots. sainsburyarchive.org.uk/cataโฆ
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When your finding aid is already 16 pages and you arenโt even a quarter of the way done processing... #archiveproblems
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3 Aug 2018
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When you try to write the bio note for your own collection... #archiveproblems
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