[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Getting a sense of the group

[Katherine Wilson]

Hi Jessica and Elaine!

I am also "starting from scratch" and like Jessica I have a third party
hosting for me but have no help from the campus IT department. I currently
use Archon but the data I inherited is messy, incomplete, wildly incorrect,
and nowhere near archival standards so I will not be importing any of it
into ASpace but instead use it as a reference. I am also a lone arranger
and forging ahead on this project solo while also managing all of the day
to day archive requests.

Would love to have a little cohort of newbies that I can troubleshoot with!

*Kate Wilson*

*she / her / hers*
*College Archivist*
Saint Mary's College of California
kfw3 at stmarys-ca.edu
925-631-4231


On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 1:19 PM Jessica Steytler <jasteytler at minlib.net>
wrote:

> Solidarity!
> Are you doing the hosting yourself, Elaine? I was lucky enough to get the
> funding together for assistance in that realm.  I'm working with someone
> from our tech services department and IT has pledged to assist, but I need
> to be able to have enough coherence to direct the activities and know what
> to ask for. I'm so not there yet. We're getting an hour and a half of
> training next friday via host service and I'm meeting with my
> implementation team a bit before that to hopefully determine what we need
> to wrap our heads around in order to import.
>
> I at least have a little experience with ASpace from a previous job, and
> even with implementation, but it's an unwieldy beast and it's been a
> minute. And one of a team is not the same as "know how it goes" - ya know?
> -Jess
> --
> Jessica Steytler  (*she/her)*
> Reference - Special Collections
> Public Library of Brookline
> 361 Washington St.
> Brookline, MA 02445
> jasteytler at minlib.net
> http://brooklinelibrary.org
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 1:30 PM Elaine Fetyko Page <elainep at elmhurst.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Me!!! I am completely overwhelmed and don't even know where to start to
>> get ArchivesSpace up and running here. We had Archon and I have an exported
>> file with our data, and that's as far as I've gotten.
>> Elaine Page
>>
>> Elaine Fetyko Page
>> pronouns: she/her/hers
>> Head of Technical Services
>> University Archivist
>> Elmhurst University – A.C. Buehler Library
>> 190 Prospect Avenue
>> Elmhurst IL 60126
>> 630-617-3166
>> 630-617-3332 fax
>> elainep at elmhurst.edu
>>
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>>
>> Who else among us are "trying to implement at all from zero" among us?
>> I'm grateful to be paired with a fellow-user (hi, Kate!). I'm grateful,
>> too, to have attended any of the forum this week, but the bit we can't
>> replicate is milling around in person and chatting to people where I'd meet
>> the folks who are still wearing their swim floaties in this half an inch of
>> water where we think we're gonna drown. (h/t John Prine)
>>
>> So, I'm asking this way. With my swim floaties on.
>> -Jess,
>> Brookline (Mass.) Public Library
>>
>>
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