[Archivesspace_small_archives_users_group] [EXTERNAL] Introducing myself

[Susan Aprill]

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Hi Jess, June and any other small archive archivists!

I'm Susan Aprill, Archivist for the Kingston Public Library.  I've had
ASpace for a while and am slowly moving/revising/correcting/adding data and
figuring out how to do things. I've managed to avoid IT issues by using
libraryhost.com, which I've found to be a very hospitable host. I've gotten
through some proof of concept experiments, both successful and not so much;
my next steps are customizing the public interface, uploading via
spreadsheet, compiling workflows in a manual, and publicizing the site

My little instance is here <https://kpl.libraryhost.com/>. I was worried
about the "wall of things to do" too, and about looking half-baked or
ill-informed on the internet. I just crossed my fingers and jumped in with the
patron saint of Kingston history, Emily Fuller Drew
<https://kplma.org/emilyDance.htm>.  Material by and about her went
into  accessions, resources, agents, digital objects, archival objects, and
links to single items, Digital Commonwealth, and to the Omeka site where
images and text files live.

Here's the search results for the Emily material
<https://kpl.libraryhost.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&op%5B%5D=&q%5B%5D=%22emily+drew&limit=&field%5B%5D=&from_year%5B%5D=&to_year%5B%5D=&commit=Search>
I've
published. I think she would have loved it! There's a lot that's not
public, of course. I'm slowly making my way through issues like how to do
this <https://kpl.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/digital_objects/30> to
avoid this <https://kpl.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/digital_objects/23>.
It's messy and fun, and it's  measurable progress and a good foundation for
adding more and more and more...

It's good to meet you both, and I hope more of us join in.
Yours,
Susan




Susan Aprill, Archivist
Local History Collections at the Adams
Kingston Public Library <http://kingstonpubliclibrary.org>
6 Green Street, Kingston MA 02364
781-831-6277



On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 11:04 AM June L Power <june.power at uncp.edu> wrote:

> Hi Jess! I’m June.
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> We’ve been using ASpace now for a little over a year and I still feel like
> a novice. We went through implementation sans a systems person, and just me
> trying to work things out with our IT folks. I read the list avidly trying
> to learn more, but I still am rather clueless about most of the technical
> side. It has been so helpful though, as I inherited an archive where
> nothing was inventoried and no finding aids existed at all, so I get the
> benefit of starting with a rather blank slate for my backlog. Good luck
> with your implementation.
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> Introducing myself
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> Hi small institutions!
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> I'm Jess
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> I am an archivist who's mostly doing reference library work in a public
> setting, and the "lone arranger" of my department, but with at least some
> assistance. I get to be the project manager for implementing ArchivesSpace.
> We are going from the library's book-centric ILS/catalog, and whatever word
> documents or excel sheets or possibly access databases I can find that hold
> archive inventories/finding aids.
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> I have experience using ArchivesSpace from previous jobs, and even helped
> implement, but key word in this is "helped"- not run.
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> I'm grateful for the pairing program that ASpace does (Hi, Kate!) but I
> want to take a more active role, and all the conversations I've seen I
> don't really understand yet because I'm so close to the beginning. I wanted
> to say hi and see who else was in this space.
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> I am working on formulating my question to the greater group but right now
> I am mostly in the stare blankly at the wall of things I'm supposed to know
> how to do that I don't know how to do. Would love to hear from more folks
> here in listserv land who need to work up the courage to ask questions.
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> Best wishes, warmest regards-
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> Jessica Steytler  (she/her)
> Reference - Special Collections
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