Information Science Antelope

[mandatory box-lifting tutorial]

You may laugh now, but it’s all fun and games until someone strains their back lugging around encyclopedias or gets a box full of annual reports to the head off the top shelf.

[Discover MyTARDIS, Sudden urge to work at a scientific research institution just to use a Whovian-named software]

[Have no qualms about removing materials in accordance with retention schedules or weeding out books at work,

Hoard books at home] 

[Students in other faculties look down on you, resist urge to sabotage access to their research materials]

If you don’t think my job’s important, I guess you don’t really need access to these books, data, primary sources, reports…

Baked goods and budgets: the weaknesses of every MLIS student

All the single records

[If you liked it, then you should have put metadata on it]

[Spend the whole day classifying and organizing everything, own desk is a mess] 

To my “organization freak” cred, it’s an organized mess.

[Client casually remarks he thinks archives are stupid, suppress urge to erase all traces of him from institutional memory]

I want a plaque on my door saying “Don’t anger the archivist or she will erase you from history”.