Thursday 03/07/2024
Tidied for the cleaning lady, then drove to the East Bay to spend the day in artifact work at Shustek. Aurora set me and Toni to work correcting the inventory of a mass of buttons. Not clothing buttons, but the kind of metal buttons with a slogan and a pin in the back, ephemera from long-gone trade shows and such. (On slogan I remember was, Burroughs Begs to Differ.) There were literally hundreds. They had all been cataloged at some point (back 10 years ago and more, I think). The catalog crew had put each button in a plastic bag with its barcode tag, and then put them all in boxes in piles. Now we get to reorganize the boxes up and repack the buttons so the bags stand up in lines. The goal is that a person looking for one particular object by its number and description, could reasonably flip through the contents of a box and be confident they had seen every one. I should have taken a picture. I will, next week.
Codgerville 