Eira Tansey @TeamMidwest@glammr.us
Team Midwest forever and ever amen. Archivist and records manager. Climate comrade. My peaceable kingdom features snails, owls, and possums.
The RepositoryData team's climate change and archives RBMS paper is up https://repositorydata.wordpress.com/2018/06/29/rbms-2018-presentation/
please someone write something about unions and/or organizing workplaces into spaces where administrations are required to share governing power with workers. I'm getting extremely tired of the coopting of the language of social justice by library administrators https://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=5807
who on here is gonna be at RBMS?
Seriously having kittens over the fact that from a superficial preview, this book does not appear to pass the Tansey test. I may get a copy and report back. https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=931
The RM Section hosted a whole webinar on this, so no more excuses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vr8JUQMVN8
Lawyers practice different areas of law, they still have general understandings of how federalism works, the rules of evidence, etc. Come the hell on. I am having trouble being polite on this any longer.
It's beyond embarrassing how many working archivists do not have even basic literacy with the PRA or FRA and use "well I don't work with government archives" as an excuse.
Also it gets better and better, totally worth a read https://rbml.acrl.org/index.php/rbml/article/view/3/3
This is from a series of student reports on Special Collections libraries from the late 70s-early 80s. As @platypus would say, I nearly hollered when I read this. Not sure if it's really discouraging or sort of comforting that the same issues we struggled with today have always existed.
If anyone needs to incorporate a URL citation to a definitive instance of the Tansey test, I did you a favor http://eiratansey.com/2018/05/29/the-tansey-test/
It's so cool when someone writes the article you've always wanted to read, and I'm so excited to read Gordon Daines and Cory Nimer's bibliometric analysis of American Archivist https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol5/iss1/3/
Posting your SAA section's call for election nominations in another section's listserv is so tacky I might need to logoff before I pass out from the steam under my collar right now
there used to be a fake "drones in libraries" conference website that led to a github repo where you could stand up a fake "{dumb trend} in libraries" conference in 5 minutes. Anyone else remember this and can point me to it?
Has anyone in our professions written about how libraries are intensely consortial/cooperative enterprises when we talk about cross-institutional work, but it contrasts with how deeply hierarchical most are governed internally? Who should I be reading on this?
Some thoughts re: Mayday on May Day http://eiratansey.com/2018/05/01/mayday-on-may-day/
"The tale of 23 overdue books" & some important thoughts on how life emergencies are often behind large library fines https://thesiswhisperer.com/2018/04/04/the-tale-of-23-overdue-books/
omg how did I miss that Zeynep Tufecki is SAA's plenary speaker?!?! https://archives2018.sched.com/event/ETNZ/plenary-1-awards
On a conference call where the phrase "blockchain for records management" was just uttered, and I want to yell out BINGO! and clock out for the day
omg Ted Cruz is going to make me root for Mark Zuckerberg. These are truly the darkest days.
Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress looks completely terrified