{"id":5336,"date":"2011-05-04T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/?p=5336"},"modified":"2011-05-04T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:15:02","slug":"5336","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2011\/05\/04\/5336\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Archivists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Round here we shy away from the label “miscellaneous” to describe an assortment of items we can’t really mentally\u00a0pull together … It’s like archival taboo. In fact, on the ArchivesNext blog post “You guys really don\u2019t like Sharpies\u2013the #badarchivists Twitter meme<\/a>,”\u00a0@allysoneb<\/a> says that “#badarchivists use the word ‘miscellaneous.'”<\/p>\n

Not wanting to be a “bad archivist,” I’m going to be a “hair-splitting archivist.”<\/p>\n

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word miscellany as “A mixture, medley, or assortment; (a collection of) miscellaneous objects or items.”<\/p>\n

In the case of the gobs of Peck’s lantern slides we digitized, uploaded, and categorized into Flickr sets, the miscellany here is all that is left<\/a>. Looking back to the OED you can think of the delightful examples they provide to frame this really random set:<\/p>\n