Bite My Shiny Metal Accession Number
Keynote by advisory chair Bender. Recording available; viewer discretion advised.
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SACDA MEDIA
News, press, and media coverage of the South Asian Canadian Digital Archive.
Local archive hires entirely robotic staff; productivity up, small talk down
Interview with Director of Beeps R2-D2, translated (loosely) by C-3PO.
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"I'm sorry, Dave": HAL-9000 on why nothing is ever deleted
A frank conversation about retention schedules and pod bay doors.
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Toward a Taxonomy of Beeps: Controlled Vocabularies for Droid Speech
Data and R2-D2 propose 4,096 new LCSH headings, all of them "Beep".
View sourceIt Looks Like You're Writing a Finding Aid
Clippy demos an assistant nobody asked for.
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Compacting the Backlog: Lessons from 700 Years of Cleanup
WALL-E on cube-based storage and why the cockroach is a valued colleague.
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