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. > --------- Valerie A. Metzler, M. A., C. A. Valerie Metzler Archivist/Historian 114 Ruskin Drive Altoona, PA 16602-2916 814 940 0493 fax 940 0449 cell 932 1740 [log in to unmask] A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>