Elena Colón-Marrero @elenarchivist@glammr.us

This morning was spent discussing "unlabeled" vs "untitled" in our software description., which has now lead to me creating instructions on how to use the data uploader and software spreadsheet to create/edit records instead of using Mimsy for software cataloging.

The “ugly” holiday sweater for MPOW is complete! We will see if anyone outside of my immediate building appreciates poop jokes. Oh and the nose on the reindeer does blink red!

A bunch of floppies were imaged in 2007 but then cataloged in 2009. Sometime in between the catalog numbers were mixed up on the disks and now I'm trying to sort out this confusing mess.

#library friends I have a question for you: a curator at MPOW wants to know why so many books have a letter underlined in the last name. They passed along the image below with G in Gladstone marked.

We haven’t been able to give him an answer, just that potentially it helped identify an author quickly. Do y’all have any thoughts or insights?

Spikes are done. Now it’s on to the safety pinned bells on the shoulders and sleeves. I did not account for how heavy this sweater may be by the end.

MPOW is having an ugly sweater contest and I’ve taken it upon myself to make my own Punk themed sweater. Hoping to have it done in time for the local brewery holiday event too.

My body is reacting poorly to the smoke that’s hanging over the Bay Area. Migraines, sore throat, but tons of mucus is really making it difficult to focus on work and frankly anything.

It took way too may archivists/registrars to figure out what to a call a particular box, but we figured it out!

We have a HelloFresh subscription that we do like once a month, but keep around for the recipes. We’ve reached a point where we have no idea what printed recipes that we have so I’ve created a spreadsheet with the recipe basics and several pivot tables to filter by meat/non-meat types.

Got attacked by a spider web and hit my head with my car door in the process. The spider won this round.

Turns out the file names and the carriers aren’t exact matches and our interpretation of handwriting differs.

I have to match these disk image files to the physical carrier. I’ve managed to match all but five and I can’t tell if I’m missing something, the carrier doesn’t exist anymore, or the names just don’t match.

Code4lib is in San Jose next year and I’m intrigued. I’ve never been but really want to experience it, but I’d have to pay registration costs out of pocket and that’s a big chunk of change.

Just emailed a dog rescue place about a doggie that upon description seems good for Osito and I’d love the two to meet. Anxiously waiting to hear back!

This is my first request where someone is very upset. Most others have understood our reasoning and were very pleasant. But hey I'm getting a lot of stock replies out of this!

Now I'm just sitting here and waiting for my cool down period to finish before I respond that we still cannot do what they are requesting and repeating what I said in the earlier email.

ANYWAY the researcher is even angrier providing me with paragraphs worth of bold text about how a museum should run and how I should do my job. Then they request, no demand, another item that I still cannot give an image for.

I was given wording for a reply that pretty much said abandonware doesn't necessarily mean copyright no longer applies, and that we are interpreting things conservatively to protect the collections and institution until we have a proper risk management policy. I encouraged them to keep looking elsewhere in the meantime because it might take a year to have a policy in place.

A few weeks ago a researcher asked to buy a Microsoft disk in our collection. After some consultation, the decision was made to not give them an ISO image of said disk because of copyright. MPOW tends to lean a little more conservatively with access.

The researcher did NOT like this and sent me an angry email re abandonware, other places that are providing access to similar things, and their interpretation of US copyright law (they are from outside of the US).

I’m finally writing the proposal to SAA Council for this first generation student membership award, but I am questioning every word that I write.

Though I’ve been told to “follow the template it’s easy!” I’m having an incredibly difficult time finding a compelling way to state my reasons for wanting to establish this award. I’m really starting to doubt my writing skills and how well I can do this or if I should even be the person doing it in the first place.