#archives problems

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Ya this crusted on rubber band isn't giving me much joy, tbh...

[umbershift]

I can draw you a comic with text and weird angles and complicated surfaces but if you make me code a finding aid I start screaming

[minnarchy]

"What do we do with bullets we find in criminal case files?"

"Umm...put them in the accession file?"

[raptorginger]

when a job posting says three or more years professional experience plus an MLS...

ALAN RICKMAN DESK FLIP RAWRRRR!!!!!

[philosofly]

Argh, of all the stupid shit...

So, I work as an Archivist.

And in the library storage building I work at, we store many of our really old state records.  Talking going back to the low 1800s.

And for the last week or so, we have noticed the humidity rising.  The supervisor at the other building called it in last week, and nothing happened.

Today, I check both gauges, and both are higher, now beyond our highest safety margin.  So, I call up the preservation librarian's office, report it again, and finally someone comes out to take a look.

Turns out a compressor is busted, and it will take them a week and half to get a new one.

Irritating, and kinda bad.

So I break out our emergency dehumidifiers, set em up to run, and none of the three seem to be content to work anymore.  I have spent the last hour trying to trouble shoot them to get them working, to no avail.

This day is not going as planned, and I am not looking forward to the phone call I will have to make to the bosses...