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+ | === To-dos from Friday, 10 January 2014 === | ||
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+ | * preliminary pass on all remaining ephemera: extract books, magazines, journals and leave the remainder to the " | ||
+ | * keywording + gardening | ||
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+ | * going through the huge boxes | ||
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+ | * sorting and making space for cards, games, and other weird items | ||
+ | * propaganda sorting, organisation, | ||
+ | * cd/ | ||
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+ | * archival boxes as needed | ||
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+ | * übercleanup | ||
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=== Diary of an archivist === | === Diary of an archivist === | ||
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== Information plumbing: January 2014 == | == Information plumbing: January 2014 == | ||
- | In my absence over summer some amazing assistants tackled and substantially resolved the most serious nightmare of this library – the ephemera. Thanks to them, this mass of the greyest of grey literature has now been sorted. This will be an ongoing effort however, as the deluge of ephemera seems unstoppable. | + | In my absence over summer some amazing assistants tackled and substantially resolved the most serious nightmare of this library – the ephemera. Thanks to them, this mass of the greyest of grey literature has now been sorted. This will be an ongoing effort however, as the deluge of ephemera seems unstoppable |
The next step is to attend to the information plumbing. | The next step is to attend to the information plumbing. | ||
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what is the motivation for the '' | what is the motivation for the '' | ||
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- | * go through remaining files and buckets, sorting into applicable areas | ||
- | * cleaning up and tagging of the digital catalogue | ||
- | * add PDFs to the digital catalogue (where available/ | ||
- | * significant pieces of ephemera, articles, etc. could be scanned and added as attachments to the Zotero references | ||
=== New books ==== | === New books ==== |