Because relationships aren’t just for EAC…
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:
So it took five years. I’m not gonna justify my backlog to a bunch of archivists. Anyway, new valentines!
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
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”
Last year I made valentines for archivists, and here are some more!
Photo credit: Jas. Heekin & Co. from Miami U. Libraries – Digital Collections
Photo credit: The title page to the 1832 third edition of John Lee Comstock’s ”A System of Natural Philosophy” from Wikipedia
Yay, holiday cards! Please share them with your favorite archivists (and even your not-so-favorite archivists, ’tis the season for that sort of thing).
Hark! the herald angels sing, No, we can’t digitize everything!
Photo credit: Book of Hours, f.58v, (184 x 133 mm), 15th century, Alexander Turnbull Library, MSR-02 from the National Library NZ on The Commons
May your holidays be filled with More Presents, Less Process
Photo credit: MCCALL HOMEMAKING COVER, XMAS TREE from the George Eastman House
![Warmest wishes for the holidays [over an image of a cardigan]](https://derangementanddescription.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/holiday_card_warmest.jpg)
Warmest wishes for the holidays [over an image of a cardigan]
O tidings of cardigans and joy
Photo credit: vintage 1970s Rainbow Sorbet Cardigan Sweater from Huzzah Vintage
![Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow [over an image of a flaking document]](https://derangementanddescription.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/holiday_card_snow.jpg)
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow [over an image of a flaking document]
And so it was that the Three Wise Dutchmen recognized the importance of provenance.
Photo credit: Image taken from page 23 of ‘The Coming of Father Christmas’ from the British Library
For the next time you cut yourself on a rusty staple, or have to re-enter three hours worth of folder labels after Archivists’ Toolkit crashes on you…
Panel 1: “Every single box in this accession is labeled ‘Miscellaneous.'” “Wow, that’s pretty foxed up.” Panel 2: A silverfish. “Look at the size of that motherfunder!” Panel 3: Compact shelving. “Greene and Meiss, you almost crushed me in here!”
Panel 1: Archive boxes by diylibrarian
Panel 2: Peixinho-de-prata // Silverfish (Lepisma saccharina) by Valter Jacinto
Panel 3: Electronic Compact Shelving, Library, City Campus West, Northumbria University by JISC infoNET
Give these to your friends, your coworkers, your secret archives crushes…
(“I like the way you roll” over a photo of book trucks. Photo credit: 1273148018052_proc2 by yurilong)
(“I’m stuck on you” over a photo of a scrapbook. Photo credit: World War One Scrapbook by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives)
(“I love you like a silverfish loves paper” over a photo of a silverfish. Photo credit: Peixinho-de-prata // Silverfish (Lepisma saccharina) by Valter Jacinto)
(“Be mine” over a photo of a donation form. Photo credit: Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum Archives donation form)
(“I love you this much” over a photo of a penguin with arms outstretched.)
(“You mean the world to me” over a historical map of the world. Photo credit: Wytfliet’s Map of the World 1598 from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection)
(“Let’s bone” over a photo of a bone folder.)
Bits and bytes of thanks to @sally_j, @LibSkrat, @herodotusjr, and @LanceStuch for their help finding images for this comic!
Image credits:
Panel 1: Image of the Earth recovered by the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project by NASA/LOIRP
Panel 2: Thesis [Image Glitching] by Richard Almond
Panel 3: Floppy Disk by Museum of Hartlepool
Panel 4: “Burned” DVD, microwaved to ensure total elimination of private data by Roman Solo
Panel 5: Floppy-Disk-1.44-Mb_FujiFilm-MF2HD_82374 -480×360 by Emilian Robert Vicol
Panel 7: When drives attack by Jonathan
Transcript after the jump.
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Put a QR code on it!
This comic really really needs to be a video–if you want to film it, let me know and I’ll finish the script!
Photo credits:
Panel 1, 3, 5: Hazel Gay from the Smithsonian Institution
Panel 2, 3, 6: Photograph of Mrs. Adelaide Minogue Checking Humidity Recorder in Stacks, 1942 from the U.S. National Archives
Panel 4: Library , c1981 from LSE Library
Panel 7: Student at Work at Senior High School in New Ulm, Minnesota from the U.S. National Archives
Panel 9: library signage -New books by rhondda.p
Panel 10, 11: Archives’ stacks by dolescum
Panel 12: Libguides from Phillips Memorial Library, Dr. John Archer Library, University of Melbourne Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
Panel 13: Binding by Morrell, late 19th or early 20th century from National Library NZ on The Commons
Panel 14: Finding aids SPL by leeleblanc
Panel 15: Sleeper by John C Abell
Panel 16: Book Moving Cart by Jeffrey Beall
Panel 17: Book of Hours, f.108r, (184 x 133 mm), 15th century, Alexander Turnbull Library, MSR-02 from National Library NZ on The Commons
Transcription after the jump.
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