Episode 1: A Siver Family History
Who likes a good daytime soap opera? Well, in honor of National Grandparents Day, which is celebrated the first Sunday after Labor Day, I thought I’d share with you an...
Kelly Spring Archives
Lights, Camera, Library!
Libraries often serve as film locations and, unsurprisingly, in scenes usually needing a room filled with books. Think Harry Potter, Ghostbusters, and Desk Set, among others. However - plot twist!...
New Research Room Reservation System
Announcing our new system for research room reservations! No longer will you need to use three different online links feeling shook up like a game of Boggle. Instead, you’ll be...
Weighing Anchor
Commandeering a ship can be a complex, difficult, and risky business. As pirates you’d think we’d prefer our migration to be a hit-and-run raid of data and turn-key solutions. Not...
Arr-chives Space Update #6: Ready About!
We pirates have been busy in the past few months. Our scallywag data is in ArchivesSpace, 95% of our digital objects are reconciled to the finding aids, our authorities database...
Shipshape
Pirates aren’t normally known for their housekeeping skills. Cataloging pirates, however, are an entirely different story. In their quarters, name and subject authorities are kept as neat and tidy as...
Chartplotting ECU’s Arrr-chivesSpace Migration
Chartplotting Wouldn’t it be nice to have turn by turn directions to find those vexing errors that you inherently know are in your legacy data? Sometimes charting exactly how to...
Arrr-chivesSpace Migration at East Carolina University
About the series: The East Carolina University Pirates are engaged in a large-scale migration project to evaluate, prep, and load data from several dispersed databases into ArchivesSpace. Over the next two years,...