On Montag, Jun 19, 2006, at 15:23 US/Eastern, Ellen Chapman wrote:

> This reminds me of a situtation at the Library of Congress (in the 
> 1960s I
> believe).

Should I tell you about the time I had two volunteers to supervise?  
One had just received an archives kind of degree (I won't say exactly 
which) and one was a person "off the street" who was looking for 
something to do of off days.  That person had a college education, but 
in a completely unrelated field.

Both received the same instructions for processing the consecutive 
parts of the same large collection.  Which one did the better job?  
Which one needed repeated correction?

Sorry to say, I almost had to let the "archivist" go!  And, I would 
have hired that other person had that other person been available.

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