When you think of doing archival work, what kind of work do you envision yourself doing? by

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Digital preservation

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Creating ways to organize physical and digital information, and helping people access and use that information

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Filing things, database design and maintenance, customer service

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Acquiring and storing/preserving materials, preferably objects and artefacts of historic value

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Botanical archives. Sensory archives. Accessible spaces. The living past, made available to researchers and the public.

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working with old things in a dusty dusty cavern

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lots of organizing and probably a fair amount of computer work

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Helping the public access historical/stored information

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I envision myself working with the artistic/story side of archival interpretation.

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Organizing, creating collections, attempting to remove colonial influence from archival/museum work

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helping members of the community / researchers find information they are seeking. Planning the ways in which incoming resources will be managed.

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I envision myself creating frameworks to interpret and catalogue archives with an increased accessibility

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Dealing with historical stories and materials, preserving them for the future

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Finding and appraising old stuff, creating databases and systems for accessing old stuff

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Help process donations, doing paperwork for those donations, organizing the collections based on RAD, and filing them away in the archival space appropriately, and so much more !

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Organizing items into a system and using that system to give researchers access to important information

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Building community archives as a repository of oral histories and cultural practices that can be accessed by current and future generations.

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Creating access points to records, describing and storing records in accordance to RADS, aiding in research

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Working with the digitization, organization, and preservation of archival records.

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Collecting, categorizing, and preserving diverse articles of information for future use

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Records management, collections management, interacting with researchers. Hopefully a mix of physical object collections but in past experience it has been sitting infront of the computer.

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Organizing records, preserving history, working with similar fields (computational science, social work, etc.) and outreach with social groups

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Sitting at an access desk at a computer, interacting with folks wanting to access records, physically managing, moving records

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Collections management

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We do a lot of emailing.

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Ideally, working with personal and/or community archives to preserve records relating to history and culture.

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making and editing spreadsheets, scanning documents, making information easily accessible and understandable

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Working with artifacts/objects to help others/researchers access them

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Preserving and ensuring access to historical information, records, and artefacts. Or finding a secret treasure map.

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Organizing and retrieving information for external / internal processes and access.

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a lot of sorting and organizing and rehousing, and using those organized things to aid in research!

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A archivist organizes and describes specialized collections and makes it available to the public, both physically and digitally

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Trying to get document cases out of the vault

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Helping people engage archival records to (re)connect with historical knowledge