Archival blogs

In class we've been talking primarily about library blogs, so I thought it might be interesting to take a look for blogs run by archivists. I need to finish a more thorough search, but I've found a few interesting things so far:

The most promising site I've found is ArchivesBlogs, a meta-blog that syndicates articles from a variety of archival blogs. It has sources in a large variety of languages, and the quality of the source material seems to vary fairly widely but its list of blogs seems useful as a quick reference for blogs to follow. Fortunately, it offers an English-only page and feed here.

Of the ones it links to, my personal favourite is Foldering, which is tragically currently on hiatus.

LISNews - This seems to be the Slashdot of the library world. It's mainly focused on library articles, but occasionally touches on archiving information. As a Slashdot clone, the articles are sometimes strange and inaccurate (this article on "Where the Web Archives Are" doesn't really link to anything that could be legitimately called an archive), but it seems interesting enough to follow nonetheless.

I'll try to ferret out some more interesting sites for any other archives students who may be curious too.


Have a story about cats.

One day, Števu Lolek had a lot of shopping to do. So he went out early to do some of his chores, and he brought his wallet (which was very big, so big that he had to have an extra-large car just to fit it in) with him, because he had to buy things.

First he visited the grocery store, and here he bought some groceries. There were some things on sale, so he bought them because he liked to save money. Everyone liked to save money, anyway. I probably didn't have to mention it, you can just forget it.

There were a lot of groceries, so he brought them home before going to the next store to buy some more things.

Next he went to the cat store, which was where they sold cats; he saw a cat there that he liked, and so he gave some money to the cashier (that's how they do it over there) and the cashier let him take the cat home with him in a big box. Except of course he didn't go home yet and so he put the cat in the car.

Next he went to the wife shop, only by now he had spent too much time on buying groceries and the cat and so he didn't have time to pick one out and he just bought the first one he saw.

He took the wife and the cat in the box (the wife was too big for the box) home with him, and he put them in his house so he had someone else there, too, and this made him happy.

That lasted for about two weeks, until something surprising occurred.

The cat found a bulldozer on the top of a hill, and because it had always wanted to ride in a bulldozer it jumped in and rode down the hill. The bulldozer hit a tree, and the tree broke. The bulldozer broke, too.

The wife was very angry because the cat was hurt, and yelled at Števu Lolek because the cat had been hurt in a bulldozer. She yelled at him quite a lot. He decided that the wife must be broken, too, and so he put her in his car and took her back to the wife shop.

But the clerk told him that his wife was an older model and it would just be cheaper to buy a new wife than to repair the old one. So Števu Lolek agreed and threw the old wife away and bought a new one, only he hurried again because of course the cat was still hurt in the bulldozer and he had to rush back home.

This story really isn't any better. It doesn't make any sense at all. Let's try talking about something else.