Helpful flowcharts for archivists in a pandemic

Some of my favorite archives flowcharts don’t quite apply during a pandemic emergency. Here, I updated them for you!

Do I need to wear gloves in the archives during a pandemic? Close your archives, and save those gloves for the people who really need them.

Do I need to wear gloves in the archives? A helpful flow chart

Do you need an archives intern during a pandemic? This one is barely a flowchart. Pay your interns and send them home.

Do you need an archives intern? A helpful flow chart

Will digitization solve my problem during a pandemic? Not if you have people doing the digitizing! Use your time at home to plan for making your future digitization better.

Will digitization solve my problem? A helpful flow chart

Somehow there are still more valentines for archivists

Because relationships aren’t just for EAC…

Valentines for archivists

More valentines for archivists

More valentines for archivists

This cute cartoon animal asks: Do you like me? And you can answer: yes, no, or (every archivist’s favorite) it depends

“Say OAI-yes!” Love is complicated, so there’s a diagram that’s somehow even more so.

“Whatever future historians say, I know we’re more than friends.” That’s what these two historical dudes are saying while one sits in the other’s lap.

Photo credits:

Image taken from page 315 of ‘Lilliput Lyrics … 

OAIS Functional Entities

Vintage Gay and Lesbian Photos found by Homo History

Even more valentines for archivists

So it took five years. I’m not gonna justify my backlog to a bunch of archivists. Anyway, new valentines!

Valentines for archivists

More valentines for archivists

“I’m AIP for you” over an old-timey picture of an ape.

 

“You’re just my (daguerreotype)”: Daguerreotype of two women sitting together, with very similar dresses and hairstyles

 

“You flip my bits”: screenshot of BitCurator in action

 

Photo credits:

“Image from page 475 of “Evolution and animal life…” from Internet Archive Book Images https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14773055432

“Portrait of two unidentified women” from the George Eastman Museum
https://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/4419918921

“Viewing reports on a disk image in Bulk Extractor” from the Library of Congress
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2013/12/bitcurators-open-source-approach-an-interview-with-cal-lee

Distracted and Description

Gotta kill this meme with archives before it dies.

 

funders DISTRACTED FROM digital preservation BY digitization

 

me at saa DISTRACTED FROM the session I’m in BY conference twitter

 

scholars DISTRACTED FROM the archives BY “the archive”

MPLP (Rubber Duckie)

If the world ends today, at least we’ll all have an adorable song stuck in our heads.

MPLP (music from Rubber Duckie [lyrics, video])

MPLP, you’re the one
You make archives efficient
MPLP, I’ll process the fonds with you

MPLP, joy of joys
All those backlogs you destroy
MPLP, tell me, what would Greene and Meissner do?

Oh, every day when I
make my way through the folders
I leave those
little staples and
paperclips
in their corners
(but I don’t cut corners)

MPLP, you’re so fine
Findings aids done in no time
MPLP, I’ll process the fonds with you!

Be a box!

An archives-themed default Twitter avatar, just in time for #saa16. Don’t be an egg, be a box!

Why be an egg when you can be a carton?

for elizabeth

Do you need an archives intern? A helpful flow chart

If you can’t provide professional experience with professional supervision…you probably don’t need an archives intern.

CC-licensed, sized for PowerPoint…I hope to see this flow chart in more places!

Are you a full-stack librarian? A helpful flow chart

Unless you’re made of pancakes…you’re probably not a full-stack librarian.

I hope this clears things up.

Halloween Costume Generator for Archivists

Still trying to come up with a brilliant archives-themed Halloween costume? Use this handy generator! Also available as a PDF.

Halloween Costume Generator for Archivists (download PDF for readable text)