Putting it all together

This is the week that I catch up to get a real handle on our collection. With such a big folder of material, it is a shame that we didn’t have the time to do a preselection for inclusion in the archive. As the themes in the life of our subject emerge (I don’t like to use the word “victim”, because it reduces the person to a statistic), I find myself thinking that there are missing visual and even textual pieces.

I found myself a bit intimidated by all the discussion about customizing, plug-ins, and other highly technical topics this week, because it makes it clearer to me than ever that today’s librarians ought to have joint computer science/library  training. I am sure the programs will evolve to include this. I know enough to realize that I have huge gaps in my theoretical knowledge of computing, and it really is a disadvantage.