So I suppose I can finally announce it: I got a job! I will be starting as a digital archivist and records manager at Marshall University January 17th. I am SUPER SUPER SUPER bummed to be leaving ICHQ, but it's a really great position that I think I'll learn a lot at.
Super bummed, though. Srsly. If you're ever unemployed with cray parents you should totes live here.
Congrats, Jackie. What does "digital archivist" mean, anyway? You are up to date on your google-fu? You pull hard drives from RAID arrays and put them in archive boxes to send to Iron Mountain?
FYI - it is mandatory that you watch We Are Marshall. In fact, it's probably in your new hire orientation packet.
Digital archivists do a lot of different things. I will be working to get Marshall's paper collections digitized and placed in an online archival system that allows others to browse the items. I will mostly be doing records management, though-- going through old records and disposing of them, and then creating records retention policies with the different departments around the university.
Digital archivists do a lot of different things. I will be working to get Marshall's paper collections digitized and placed in an online archival system that allows others to browse the items. I will mostly be doing records management, though-- going through old records and disposing of them, and then creating records retention policies with the different departments around the university.
Digital archivists do a lot of different things. I will be working to get Marshall's paper collections digitized and placed in an online archival system that allows others to browse the items. I will mostly be doing records management, though-- going through old records and disposing of them, and then creating records retention policies with the different departments around the university.
Digital archivists do a lot of different things. I will be working to get Marshall's paper collections digitized and placed in an online archival system that allows others to browse the items. I will mostly be doing records management, though-- going through old records and disposing of them, and then creating records retention policies with the different departments around the university.
On the technical end, it has been a nightmare. It could be (and likely is) our particularly fucked modified version from a vendor, but I've not had fond experience with it.
Also, getting any scanning station working with the workflow of an office (and convincing them to use it) is a nightmare. They're very reluctant to move to a time intensive process when they just file things away naturally in binders.
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Hope you get a job asap,
Super bummed, though. Srsly. If you're ever unemployed with cray parents you should totes live here.
FYI - it is mandatory that you watch We Are Marshall. In fact, it's probably in your new hire orientation packet.
Digital archivists do a lot of different things. I will be working to get Marshall's paper collections digitized and placed in an online archival system that allows others to browse the items. I will mostly be doing records management, though-- going through old records and disposing of them, and then creating records retention policies with the different departments around the university.
I can use a scanner and throw papers away!
This job sounds wonderful.
Also, getting any scanning station working with the workflow of an office (and convincing them to use it) is a nightmare. They're very reluctant to move to a time intensive process when they just file things away naturally in binders.
sometimes, it feels like, Brian puts stuff in weird places...
It's what I'm best at
Isn't that really for Nicole to say more than any of us?