<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_ks7nsekl3" alt="susan-aprill-archivist.jpg" width="224" height="224" style="margin-right:0px"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Jess, June and any other small archive archivists!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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 <a href="https://libraryhost.com/">libraryhost.com</a>, 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 </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">My little instance is <a href="https://kpl.libraryhost.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. 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 <a href="https://kplma.org/emilyDance.htm">the patron saint of Kingston history, Emily Fuller Drew</a>. 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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Here's <a href="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">the search results for the Emily material</a> 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 <a href="https://kpl.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/digital_objects/30">this</a> to avoid <a href="https://kpl.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/digital_objects/23">this</a>. It's messy and fun, and it's measurable progress and a good foundation for adding more and more and more... </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It's good to meet you both, and I hope more of us join in.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Yours,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Susan</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Susan Aprill, Archivist</div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1">Local History Collections at the Adams</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><a href="http://kingstonpubliclibrary.org" target="_blank">Kingston Public Library</a></font></div><div><font size="1"><span class="gmail_default">6 Green Street, Kingston MA 02364</span></font></div><div><font size="1">781-831-6277<br></font><font size="1"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 11:04 AM June L Power <<a href="mailto:june.power@uncp.edu" target="_blank">june.power@uncp.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:archivesspace_small_archives_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_small_archives_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a> <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_small_archives_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_small_archives_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jessica Steytler<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 11, 2021 10:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:archivesspace_small_archives_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_small_archives_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [Archivesspace_small_archives_users_group] Introducing myself<u></u><u></u></p>
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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. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have experience using ArchivesSpace from previous jobs, and even helped implement, but key word in this is "helped"- not run. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes, warmest regards-<u></u><u></u></p>
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Jessica Steytler (she/her)<br>
Reference - Special Collections<br>
Public Library of Brookline<br>
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