Elena Colón-Marrero @elenarchivist@glammr.us

We FINALLY got a written roadmap & explanation of why things are where on the IT front at MPOW. But also we are getting brand new (not refurbished new) laptops in February. I’m trying to figure out how I can be on that first wave upgrade list.

Was in a professional meeting & one of the participants started going off on how degrading the “ok boomer” meme is & all I could do was resist the urge to say it.

Spent a better part of my day watching a package that failed overnight ingest again only to have it fail again. Brb as I go sulk with a drink.

Today someone at MPOW basically goes “you’re wrong it’s free or at least was XX years ago.” I’m resisting the urge to say it’s freemium & every time I’ve asked for a service like that I’m told no because policy is we pay. Now everyone thinks I’m wrong & I’m gonna have to speak with ppl offline about my wrong information at some unknown future point. 😡😡😡

Quilt friends! What is the definition of a quilt? My coworker and I are arguing about it. She thinks piecing is necessary but I thought two layers of fabric with batting in the middle that’s stitched together is a quilt.

Does anyone have information on archiving docker containers?

The one downside to starting to use slack is that the general channel has become a place for certain people to share quite old and debunked news and years old memes.

Joke's on them because I already asked my boss for help sorting this out as well as the submitted grant materials (which I didn't have access to despite being on the grant) and she gave me the go ahead with this plan. Now I'm prepping a reply back acknowledging her thoughts, stating what I believed to be true, and holding firm, all with my supervisor cc'd. I kind of wish I did have Jury Duty today after all.

I emailed my coworker with my concerns and solutions. She promptly replies back with a "we've done this before. I don't understand this was decided on before, and we won't give these smaller collections their own finding aid so lets combine them all." On top of that my supervisor was cc'd despite not being on the email chain originally.

We’ve at least gotten the project archivist to shift to something else in the meantime? But my head hurts & I’m tired & sad I didn’t get to accomplish the things I wanted to get done today.

What I don’t understand is why acquisitions with provenance (and their own collection titles) were chosen to be a part of this new collection when we have over 90 linear feet of things with no provenance that would fit the bill. Now my coworker, my supervisor, and I are trying to find a good solution for this while not losing the hours of work but still meeting grant criteria and how to let the lead archivist for this know.

There’s two other acquisitions from the same donor that were included & the project archivist found another acquisition from them that was already cataloged. Three boxes turned into 20. I was asked to sort this out but going down the rabbit hole I discovered how messed up this artificial collection is.

Two weeks ago i was asked to help catalog these items. Before I left for a wedding I got the spreadsheet of what to catalog & it was mostly collections with provenance including some with text components & another that’s a part of a whole different collection. I gave a heads up about acquisitions that shouldn’t be on the list, but they already got re-cataloged by the volunteers.

A part of our grant project is to create an artificial collection of packaged software in our collection. I wasn’t consulted about what this would entail & when I asked if it was items we dub “found in collections” that has no provenance, got misplaced, etc. I was given a yes.

Just sent a pdf of a slide deck from MPOW with a chart that represents high, medium, and low in varying shades of teal and I cannot differentiate the shades very well. I just asked if there was a different version of the chart that’s more accessible, but I doubt I’ll get a satisfactory answer.

I think the day went well. I got great feedback from my presentation & can only help as the first interview I set the bar high. Fingers crossed. 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽

Thanks for the advice everyone! I walked a little but didn’t realize how steep the walk up from BART was. I found a bench and hid out until I wasn’t a sweaty mess, but also meditated.

I’m gonna arrive to Berkeley an hour early for my interview. Do I risk getting another coffee & potentially needing to use the bathroom before my presentation or loiter around campus for a while?

My least favorite thing about sewing is having to iron yards of fabric before cutting. I understand the purpose but my ironing board just can’t handle yards of 60inch wide fabric plus the animals like sleeping in the parts that pool on the floor

For transparency the spreadsheet was restored to a version from September 24 that was restored & updated from a September 21 version. I’ve combed through all of the changes since I last restored the sheet & updated the sheet to reflect those changes.