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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative: June 2008
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative. Digging for treasure throughout Philadelphia (and Delaware! Tuesday, June 3, 2008. The future of cataloging - yes, I said cataloging. Taking a slight detour from surveying, last week I gave an invited presentation on the implications for archives and special collections of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. At PALINET's Future of Cataloging Symposium. For those who are interested in learning more about the people's thoughts o...
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative: June 2007
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative. Digging for treasure throughout Philadelphia (and Delaware! Friday, June 29, 2007. But mommy, I don't want to look at pictures of shuffleboard again. In the past few months we've encountered a number of collections of people's travel slides out in the fields of surveying. These have ranged from small boxes with a few dozen slides a piece to an entire metal cabinet of 3D stereo slides. By an unknown photographer whose travels included cruises to Cuba, Panama, and the N...
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative: December 2007
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative. Digging for treasure throughout Philadelphia (and Delaware! Monday, December 17, 2007. What do you do with the collection of a nobody? One of the most active archival institutional blogs is Historical Notes from OHSU. The blog of Oregon Health and Science University's Historical Collections and Archives. I'm in awe of the frequency and the quality of the posts on this blog, which attest to some serious blogger discipline. I was struck by this recent post. If you prefe...
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative: The spice of life
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative. Digging for treasure throughout Philadelphia (and Delaware! Friday, March 21, 2008. The spice of life. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). About the PACSCL Survey. For more information about the PACSCL Survey, see the project website. In this blog, we'll be highlighting interesting collections, describing odd finds, and mulling over what the survey process reveals about archives and collectors. John, Collections Surveyor. Jenny, Collections Surveyor. The Philadelphia ...
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative: May 2007
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative. Digging for treasure throughout Philadelphia (and Delaware! Thursday, May 17, 2007. On Being “Stuff”-less. I’m an archivist. That’s my professional identity and I’m proud of it. Preferred kind of job, one in which I don't have to "buy anything, sell anything, or process anything."). So being "stuff"-less isn't so bad. It may be a "small" canvas, but I like it immensely. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). About the PACSCL Survey. John, Collections Surveyor. The Philadelphia A...
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative: April 2007
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative. Digging for treasure throughout Philadelphia (and Delaware! Monday, April 16, 2007. On NPR a couple of weeks ago and it sounds pretty amazing. More here. Friday, April 6, 2007. When I described this project to a friend, he said "Have you found any doubloons? I was sad to report that we had not, as yet, found any doubloons. However, lots of other interesting things have turned up, including:. Instructions for the operation of a grenade-launcher (in German);. The Philad...
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative: November 2007
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative. Digging for treasure throughout Philadelphia (and Delaware! Friday, November 16, 2007. Sweating the small stuff. A lot of what we've surveyed is small, by pretty much any definition. Of the 1,078 collections surveyed as of today, 717 are under 5 feet - and a staggering 400 of those are under 1 foot. And surveying really does seem to be beneficial for these types of materials. This is because there are two main aims for the surveying. One is to assist with. At the Univ...
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative: October 2007
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative. Digging for treasure throughout Philadelphia (and Delaware! Friday, October 19, 2007. And for a summary of science fiction collections around the country (including plenty of Star Trek materials), see the Research Resources at AboutSF. Tuesday, October 16, 2007. I dream of genies. Lately we've been simultaneously surveying at two different sites. While John and Jenny progress through Temple's collections, I've been back at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. With ...
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative: You describe my back...
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative. Digging for treasure throughout Philadelphia (and Delaware! Friday, March 7, 2008. You describe my back. Recently Josie, our intern for the semester, and I surveyed a collection that reminded me of one of the hoped for outcomes of this project: that once people find out about some of these "hidden" collections we're surveying, they will want to use them, and that maybe they'll even want to assist in bringing them further into the light. Buy cheap viagra online. In thi...
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative: July 2007
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PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative. Digging for treasure throughout Philadelphia (and Delaware! Sunday, July 29, 2007. Here, There, Everywhere. Obviously one of the neat things about this project is getting around to all the various repositories. Not only do we get to see behind the scenes, we get to work there for awhile. And from the "who knew? Thursday, July 19, 2007. Finding the skeletons in your closets (and basements and desks and drawers). But when I press and ask "Is there anything else? Pointed...