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”

Every time you laminate…God deaccessions a kitten

Pretty sure the title says it all, but just in case…

Click the image for the larger version, in case you want to print it out and stick it on your wall.

Photo credits:

Field: Library of Congress on Flickr Commons

Color kitty: SMU Central University Libraries on Flickr Commons

Black and white kitty: Amanda Hill

More meme, less process

What can I say, I’m on a MPLP kick this week.

(Photo credits: LittleO2 and Duke University Archives)

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A great new meme meets a great old one:

(Photo credits: NARA and LittleO2)

lolarchivists

I don’t think this one really needs any commentary.

Photo courtesy of the Swedish National Heritage Board on Flickr Commons.

The codex doth protest too much, methinks

Yeah, I should probably add a link to Know Your Meme to the sidebar–around these posts, it’s at least as useful as the SAA glossary.

Hope all of you SAA09-ers are having fun! Choice quotes can be emailed or DMed here for some DnD-style fun. (Muahaha…)

I don’t even want to think about the [phystech] for this one

I got some comments that the last EAD comic was a bit too highbrow for this crowd.

Behold, this week’s comic!

NO I AM NOT LINKING YOU TO ANY CONTEXT

Walker, Texas Deranger

The only context Chuck Norris provides is a roundhouse kick to the head.

eadBay

 

A quick Google search reveals that this meme has spread far beyond eBay.

IM IN UR BLOGOSPHERE, WRITIN UR COMICZ

 

IM IN UR–oh, whatever, here’s your context.