by KimBoo York | Dec 23, 2016 | Life and all That
This entry is part [part not set] of 130 in the series Blog-a-Day2016It has been engraved on my soul to save household documents by parents whose deaths bequeathed to me their tax returns from the 1960s. I treasure those documents, because they contain my...
by KimBoo York | Oct 11, 2012 | Life and all That
This week marked a huge milestone for the Claude Pepper Library where I work as an archivist: we got a Facebook page! I’m sure you’re impressed. *waits* No really, you are impressed, right? I know, a Facebook page is something everyone an their...
by KimBoo York | Sep 11, 2012 | Information Science, Project Management
Where most people fall down in project management is the idea that it requires a lot of work. It really doesn’t; what requires work is starting a project over from scratch, or wading into a project halfway through and changing direction. Project management is about...
by KimBoo York | Aug 10, 2012 | Project Management, Information Science
I am trying to write a paper about project management in archives processing, and I’m finding it hard. To me, much of this “advice” I’m giving is common sense, simply looking at a problem and breaking it into workable parts efficiently and effectively. I have to...
by KimBoo York | Jul 19, 2012 | Information Science, From the archives
One aspect that I feel is overlooked by scholars is the fact that archivists have a very profound perspective of the collections they manage. The archivist should be the first stop in understanding a collection, not the last stop after the finding aid. However most...
