#records management

[mikaistudies]

wanna study in the library ;;

#studyblr #studyspo #study blog #note taking #study inspo #study motivation #archives and records management #library and information science #mikai studies #study notes #study aesthetic #productivity #records management #study session #study sesh

[yourfriendjulie]

it's fascinating to work with archival administrative records from September 2001 because the actual events are rarely, if ever, mentioned but there are these holes in the records like an agenda for an 9 AM meeting that never happened, or a few days of terse notes from an employee who was otherwise a prolific note-taker, like little ghosts that you can only see with context

#makes you wonder about all the holes in the record that we'll never even notice #archives #records management

[archivyrep]

Is Peridot an unintentional archivist, records manager, or something else entirely? [Part 1]

Peridot, shown in her debut episode "Warp Tour," making a log of her trip to Earth and what she saw while she was there.

So, I recently began rewatching Steven Universe, starting at season 1, and I realized even more archival themes than what I had previously concluded, beginning with one of the characters, Peridot. Some readers may remember I wrote about Steven Universe before, at the beginning of this year, noting the presence of VCRs, their preservation, other records within the series, the special library of Buddy Buddwick, and archival records used in defense of Steven at his trial, to name a few aspects.

Reprinted from my Wading Through the Cultural Stacks WordPress blog. Originally published on Dec. 2, 2021.

However, I was mainly relying on memory in writing that post, and its different once you begin watching a series again. As such, this post will be focused on one specific character, Peridot, and whether she is an unintentional archivist, records manager, or something else entirely in the series as a whole. Warning here that this post will give spoilers for part of the show.

In episodes within seasons 1 and 2 of Steven Universe, Peridot often records her progress with Gem experimentation and the cluster on her "finger screens." She is first shown making logs in her debut episode [Warp Tour] and makes another log in the episode "Keeping it Together," before Steven, and his friends, the Crystal Gems, chase her across the Prime Kindergarten. [1] Unfortunately, her screens and limb enhancements are thrown into the water in the episode "Catch and Release" by Amethyst. In the following episode, "When it Rains," she tells Steven she doesn't know anything without her screen and tells him that all her logs up to a certain date are backed up in the Prime Kindergarten. She also tells Steven she read over a few hundred years of reports and displays her records which show many attempts at artificial fusion, prototypes for an artificial fusion that would have destroyed the Earth, the Cluster.

Following this, she gets an audio tape recorder, making logs for her life on Earth, her experiences, her attempts to get along with the Crystal Gems (Amethyst, Garnet, and Pearl), and more. [2] This until the episode "Barn Mates" when Lapis destroys it after Peridot gifts it to her in hopes of becoming friends with her. The audio tape recorder becomes an important part of her character development as she adapts to living on Earth rather than living on Homeworld. In the process, you could say that the recordings that Peridot does are archival records.

As I noted in my previous post about Steven Universe on this blog, Peridot notes that she had backed up her logs before, finding information on  Gem fragments from reports. In the episode "It Could've Been Great" she goes through an old Gem computer system to find information about the cluster, Gem locations, and the planned Earth colony. The question remains, is Peridot an archivist, albeit unintentionally? That is what I want to answer in the rest of this post, divided into two parts. The second part will be published tomorrow.

© 2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Notes

[1] Peri is using communication devices in "Friend Ship" as well.

[2] This shown in the episodes "Log Date 7 5 12" and "Barn Mates" for instance.

#peridot #steven universe #archivists #records managers #records management #archival science #archival studies #archival #archives #recordkeeping #recordkeepers #audio tapes #audio tape #pop culture #reviews

[todaysdocument]

“ . . . the Director of Records in the Offices of the Adjutant General has conducted continuous studies in order to identify individual blank forms, decimal correspondence files and groups of records which may be dispensed with throughout the service.” 12/30/1942.

Record Group 156: Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance

Series: Reports

Transcription:

SPRINGFIELD ARMORY

314/ 117

Jan 13 9 16 AM 1945

WAR DEPARTMENT

The Adjutant General's Office

AG 313.6 (12-30-42) DZ Washington

December 30, 1942

SUBJECT: Disposal of records.

TO: Commanding General, First Service Command, Boston, Mass.

1. With the publication of AR 345-10 (December 5, 1941), there was established a simple and efficient system for ridding the Army of its great accumulation of obsolete records. The custodian is in the best position to judge whether his working space is obstructed by the storage of records, and to determine what papers may reasonably be dispensed with. The primary duty of making report to the War Department belongs to him. To extend the benefits of the law as widely as possible, however, the Director of Records in the Offices of the Adjutant General has conducted continuous studies in order to identify individual blank forms, decimal correspondence files and groups of records which may be dispensed with throughout the service. When authority to dispose of any of these has been secured, notice is published to take them out of his files and dispose of them, without making individual application to the War Department and without even the necessity, at present, of reporting action taken. It is known that some officers have been making good use of the opportunity. One has stated that he cleared 83,00 pounds of paper, being items found on those circulars in a period of five months. It is also known that some custodians of records are ignorant of the very existence of published lists, to say nothing of taking any advantage of them.

2. General disposition lists cannot cover everything. Even if all items on such lists are eliminated, there will remain in most places a con-siderable quantity of useless papers. These should be reported by the custodian in the manner provided in Army regulations. Final action on such a request is now ordinarily take by Congress within three months of its receipt by the adjutant general. Such local lists not only clear space for the office making the report, but also frequently furnish occasion for extending the authority to the rest of the office. It is becoming increas-ingly difficult for the Director of Records to prepare general lists unaided by suggestions outside his office. Lists submitted by posts were never numerous and practically none have been received in the past three months.

3. This office has made persistent effort to extend the scope of the system for the disposition of records. No means will suffice by itself. It will, therefore, be appreciated if you will take every occasion to disseminate among the posts under your command an knowledge of the exis-tence of these general disposition lists, to urge commanders to make full use of the authority published, and to impress upon them the importance of their reporting any residue of useless papers which may remain in their possession.

By order of the Secretary of War:

/s/ T. M. SPAULDING

Adjutant General.

Reproduced Hq 1 SC

3Jun42 hcg

#archivesgov #December 30 #1942 #1940s #World War II #WWII #military #U.S. Army #records management

[curatorsday]

Thursday, June 2, 2022

I had several requests for grave locations today (a regular daily occurrence) so I thought I’d show off our filling system. In the upper row of filing cabinets there are 6 1/2 double drawers filled with 3”x5” interment cards of all the people who have been buried here. In the lower rows are 9 drawers with 9”x11” cards of every lot in the cemetery. We have a volunteer steadily entering all the information into a digital database but there’s still a lot to go. And I personally like the physical cards.

#excurator #cemetery #filing #records management

[davidl2001]

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#document management #ECM software #Project management #records management

[mintbees]

One thing that keeps confusing me is that they claim ghost files costs several hundreds of thousands of dollars per season. I’ve tried to wrap my head around this ever since the announcement because flying a crew of 6 or so people out for two days and renting out the location COULD NOT be costing that much unless they’re either lying or blowing money on first class flights and expensive food/accommodations and even THEN do I not see them breaking 100k on a single episode. Dear lord hire an accountant I’m half convinced someone’s laundering money

#EDIT i said per ep in the og post but it was actually per season #watcher #AND they hire additional local crew for???? reasons unknown to me #are they buying their whole recording setup again every time they fly??? do they each get seperate rooms??? #are they eating fucking caviar every meal like girl WHAT is that money being spent on #hire an accountant please this money is not being managed

[licollisa]

Susie "it's the intent that counts" deltarune

#local teenager managed a record breaking 1 (one) rock skips (her pride is scarred beyond compare) #aight guys gonna snork mimimi its almost 4 am #deltarune #kris #susie #utdr #lico arting

[roadstostray]

needed a new icon

I'm so gay for him

#roadstostray #my art #stardew valley #stardew #Sebastian sdv #sdv #i don't have to explain myself #im just gay #i managed to get 6 hearts in month one #im a professional emo kisser first artist second #im gonna marry him by mid summer I think at this rate if rain is kind #let's see if I can beat my record of the last day of summer #its currently summer 3 and he's at 7 hearts

[saintarmand]

iwtv is insanity inducing bc every time you google some reference in it you find out theyre doing some 4d chess with the symbolism… like okay playing roosevelt's speech about the us joining ww2 in the background as claudia tells louis shes gonna kill lestat is pretty straightforward, and of course the chess game theyre playing foreshadows how she beats him in the next episode but doesn't "finish the game" ie burn him. and bc claudia later compares lestat to the nazis/hitler, that obviously makes lestat germany and thus claudia is poland and louis is the us/roosevelt in the speech we hear: "I had hoped against hope that some miracle would prevent a devastating war in Europe and bring to an end the invasion of Poland by Germany" etc. BUT THEN you get nerdy and google some of the chess terms lestat uses like the dutch defense and stonewalling which is pretty interesting and then you vaguely remember one of the writers said the scene was based on some famous chess game, and you realize it must be glücksberg vs miguel najdorf which turns out to be literally called the POLISH IMMORTAL. najdorf was polish and glücksberg is some unknown but based on the name likely german. this was najdorf's first famous game, at the beginning of his career when he was only like 19 or something although we dont know the exact details of the game (and ofc you watch a few videos on the polish immortal and they all heavily criticize glücksberg's moves which makes lestat's arrogance even funnier) and ALSO, in 1939 (literally at the same time as the chess scene takes place) najdorf was participating in a chess tournament in buenos aires and since he was not only polish but also jewish, he stayed there rather than return home. his whole family was killed in the holocaust but he lived a long life in argentina. why is this relevant? because BUENOS AIRES which btw lestat also calls "la reina del plata" so you google that and find the 1930 song by carlos gardel and the lyrics are literally— anyway so buenos aires is where lestat planned for them to move to in ep7. perhaps if they had indeed gone to argentina instead of europe… well… perhaps… perhaps…

#vampterview #spark in the dark #iwtv #interview with the vampire #i wonder if there will be more najdorf parallels in s2... theres a shot in the trailer where claudia is blindfolded #and najdorf set the world record for simultaneous blindfold chess in 1947 (!!!) which stood until 2011 #although simultaneous blindfold chess also does kinda sound like what claudia was doing in ep7 already #theres also the najdorf variation of the sicilian defense which was named after him but he stopped using it bc #(if i understand correctly) some amateur who simply memorized the moves from chess theory books managed to beat him at it. HMM #to be clear i know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about chess im simply reading this shit off wikipedia and chess.com and some youtube videos #i could absolutely be getting this all wrong i have no idea what any of this shit actually means #s #claudia

[reportwire]

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#compliance #Information Governance #Records Management

[gilbirda]

More than Jazz as a psychiatric I see her as a Social Worker that focuses on Children and Family.

Leaving the plot aside, Jazz may have had the CPS visit her home (or never) and saw how the system failed her and her brother, who ended dead.

She could still study psychology and focus to get a degree in children welfare (or whatever is called) to help children out of abusive/neglectful families.

And then I introduce you "social worker Jazz Fenton Nightingale meet crime lord/children defender red hood"

You are SO RIGHT and actually I had an idea like that written down.... somewhere.

Basically social worker Jazz tries to fix the system from the inside etc etc etc and becomes trusted contact for Red Hood to properly relocate the kids and help them recover.

Everyone knows about Ms. Fenton. That Hood approves of her, that she will always have warm food and a blanket, no questions asked.

And that she would fist fight anyone if they try anything funny with the kids under her protection.

Even Batman.

#gil answers #dpxdc #just had the vision of Jazz fist fighting Batman because she thinks that he's trying to kidnap a kid to be the next Robin #Tim records the whole thing instead of helping #anger management ship #hardcover ship #kinda? can go either way

[archivyrep]

Archivists are not librarians: Understanding the differences [Part 2]

Continued from part 1

Peridot goes through an old file system to find information about the Cluster in the Steven Universe episode "It Could've Been Great"

While archivists undoubtedly also create and use databases, help patrons do research, organize materials, and maintain collections, it is unlikely that a librarians would be teaching classes or researching what equipment will be purchased. In some smaller archives, it is likely that librarians would be planning programs, training and supervising other staff, and preparing budgets. One fundamental difference is that archives preserve materials which have long-term value, not just something like the latest smash hit from Hollywood that a local public library would have, that no one will likely care about in five years.

Reprinted from my Wading Through the Cultural Stacks WordPress blog. Originally published on Dec. 9, 2021.

Libraries and archives have their own important functions, but they are not the same. This is clear from the skills that archivists usually have. This includes a broad (and deep) knowledge of records, special preservation and access training, passion for history, eye for detail, and strong commitment to service. Just as important is collaboration with others, using innovative methods, working independently and on a team, strong research and writing skills, and creative problem solvers. It is also said that archivists show a natural curiosity, have an in-depth knowledge of digital preservation, general understanding of cataloging, web archiving, delivery, and web site preservation, and an understanding of how different system parts contribute to the job. [2]

Librarians, on the other hand, help "people conduct research or find information" and have a wide range of responsibilities, as noted by Maryville University. The aforementioned BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook states that job duties for librarians "vary based on the type of library they work in, such as a public, school, or medical library," adding that in small libraries, librarians are "often responsible for many or all aspects of library operations" but in large libraries they "usually focus on one aspect of the library, such as user services, technical services, or administrative services." There are some similarities to archivists at small archives, or archives-lite, like Historical societies, rare book collections, and special collections. More specifically, there are:

Academic librarians

Administrative services librarians

Public librarians

School librarians (also called school library media specialists)

Special librarians (also called information professionals) and can include corporate librarians law librarians, and medical librarians

Technical services librarians

User services librarians

There are, similarly, different types of archivists, whether those who work in colleges and universities, corporations, governments, historical societies, museums, religious institutions, and special collections. [3] However, librarians can said to be much more public-facing than archivists, but this is sometimes not the case, with archivists dealing with the public as much as librarians, especially if they work at a small institution or their archive is within a library.

© 2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Continued in part 3

Notes

[2] For this paragraph, see "What's an Archivist?" on the NARA website, "Who is an archivist?" on the International Council of Archives (ICA) website, "Archivist vs. Librarian: Which Career Path Is for You?" from Maryville University, Jennifer Wright's "Some Archival Career Advice" post, and Peter Chan's "What Does it Take to Be a Well-rounded Digital Archivist?" post.

[3] See "Types of Archives" page on the SAA website.

#archivists #librarians #peridot #steven universe #file systems #records management #libraries #archives #pop culture #reviews #patrons #definitions #differences

[todaysdocument]

Sub-Basement Room Near Elevator at U.S. Capitol House Wing, 5/13/1937

Series: Photographic Prints of Storage Conditions of U.S. Government Records Before Accession to the National Archives, 1935 - 1944

Record Group 64: Records of the National Archives and Records Administration, 1789 - ca. 2007

Image description: A room with an arched ceiling has pipes along one wall and shelves along two other walls. The shelves contain bound volumes, loose papers, and boxes of records (some collapsing). A broken desk drawer leans against records. There is a layer of dust and dirt on the floor and the shelves.

#archivesgov #May 13 #1937 #1930s #Congress #House of Representatives #records management #NARA meta

[curatorsday]

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Today I worked on systematically reviewing the last five years of burial records (a long, ongoing process). On one day in 2020, there were funerals for a 2-day-old and a 99-year-old.

#excurator #cemetery #woodlawn cemetery #burials #funerals #records management

[rainy-days-and-nights]

Two.....

#didnt like it that much but at least...i finally manage to kinda made a video of the process.....kimda i difnt start recording until a bit #later but meh #d'arce cataliss #fear and hunger #KDLNFDKFKEKFIKEOFOWIS AAAA ༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽