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I was going to reply to mediadave, but hopefully he got the job and won't need any advice about archives. For anyone else in the UK who finds management of archives thrust upon them with no prior training or experience, there is a one-day Basic Archive Skills Training Day, run by the Archive Skills Consultancy Ltd. It's a good overview but it is quite pricey.
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VideoTapir posted:I worked under a woman who insisted that on the public for-patron-use map of the library that the catalog terminals be labeled "OPAC." I had to argue with her for a while before she agreed to compromise on spelling out the acronym. I pointed out that approximately none of our patrons would know what "OPAC" means. Her response, verbatim, was "well, they need to learn." I once worked under an academic who refused to explain specialist terms in an exhibition, on the grounds that if people didn't know what was meant, then they weren't the intended audience. The idea that someone might come to a library and learn something new apparently hadn't occured to them.
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Giant Metal Robot posted:This came to my inbox today. http://robustlinks.mementoweb.org/spec/ Think of how much stuff we link to with the assumption that it will stay in the same place, but it won't (i.e. waffleimages). More than 30% of URL's cited in legal opinions/rulings are dead already. Encouraging the use of tools like this in ETD deposits, student legal journals, and other places starts a culture where information isn't as fragile as it is today. I recommend WebCite to try and get round the problem of dead links, although that itself assumes that this website won't collapse. It's no good for digital preservation but it might help keep links in academic or legal documents relevant for a little longer. It might not be of any great interest to anyone here, but generally librarians in the UK don't need another Masters, PhD, or teaching qualification to get jobs in academic or schools libraries.
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