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Re: courting



Three cheers for Lucinda, I say!  Hang in there ---
there are more archivists in your shoes than his!!



Lucinda Glenn Rand wrote:

> OK, today as every day I am feeling overwhelmed and it has finally made me
> cranky.  Though I appreciate the idea that Dr. Gotlieb can court the celebs
> and that he can court the press, etc. how many of us can do either?
>
> I work in a one person shop -- I mean one person, me.  I have no student
> help, no assistants, no one (I have asked for five years for help to no
> avail).  Yet I am constantly bombarded by the professional expectations that
> Archivists are supposed to do everything in the world and be an expert on
> everything technological.  Where, I ask all of you, am I supposed to find
> the time and training to be a computer expert, web design expert, court
> every donor possible, help every researcher in the world over the internet,
> make the entire world aware of the importance of archives, digitize every
> item in the archives.  I could go on, but I won't.
>
> If I am doing all these things, who is back at the shop actually processing
> the collections?  No one.  Please, when can we have a sense of reality about
> the work one human being can perform?
>
> My God, what a rant!  I love my work, and love my collection -- ecumenical
> and inter-religious work by groups and individuals in the west and pacific
> rim.  This is hardly the stuff that gets the attention of the press.  My
> rant is an expression of the frustration of seeing what should be done and
> not being able to do it.
>
> Lucinda (Frustrated in Berkeley) Glenn Rand
>
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Claire Goodwin, College Archivist
Simmons College Archives
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