Becky Briggs Becker

I'm an archivist, a casual crafty artist, an unabashed nerd & video gamer, & an always experimenting cook. Opinions my own. She/her/hers @[email protected]

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

I feel like a grizzled sea captain when I say "Eh I've been weathering Internet communications upheavals since 2003." But feel free to follow me on other platforms linked here: https://t.co/eOx47qJDUF

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

My wise mother reminded me people have survived political & economic upheaval before. "Back when I was a newlywed, the interest rates for a mortgage or car loan was 17%." I rescued my husband from the middle of nowhere VT & married him in 2017. Look for the good. Be the good.

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

Howdy y'all. Based on some Chrome extension that found 500+ ExTweeter people over there, this is apparently the ExTweeter place: https://t.co/JrSAE2Ontz. I haven't been social media-ing it up lately but I'm also at other social media sites too: https://t.co/Ff9QSwdHwv

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

When I find out that my chronic idiopathic urticaria is a symptom of at least 3 autoimmune diseases that I have family history for getting, and have outlined w/ doctors for years: *handraised monkey meme*

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

Well, looks like on Halloween I’m hunkering down with a giant bag of fun size candy, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and The Sims 4: Life and Death. Interesting release date, EA.

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

I'm doing OK! There is a reason why I have a small collection of This is Fine memorabilia including a small Question Dog in my office. The meme represents, uh, a lot. 😅 #thisisfine #thatarchivistlife #archivistproblems

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Why is it important to preserve 78rpm recordings?

As audio preservation expert George Blood explains, "78rpm discs were the way we learned about each other and entertained the world." https://t.co/nNiRzMZa53 #VanishingCulture

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

Ooh lordy this aged quickly. Now I'm in a newly merged department & no longer the head of a tiny department of two employees (including myself). But I'm also an interim head overseeing 3 FT employees. There's still room to move up the career ladder if I wanted (not right now tho)

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

@Jsmeth_ I’ll be happy still being in my role at the same institution in 10 years 😄 any upward movement means becoming an assist. or assoc. dean, as I’m a department head at this point. And any upward movement in my profession + higher ed may mean moving to a new place again. Sigh. Nope.

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

First day of fall semester classes as interim head of the special collections department at my work, without training wheels (i.e., without my coworker who had the job previously 😢). Wish me luck! 🍀

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

My hubs & I watched Deadpool & Wolverine this past weekend. And yes I did silently sing along to the songs I knew, thanks to Rock Band and being a 2000s kid once. 🎵🎶

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

My coworker & a colleague of his in campus facilities found the paintings! 🤯#thatarchiveslife

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

This has actually blown up into A Mystery that a coworker is digging into through his work connections. Stay tuned if we actually find these artworks!

[JS @Jsmeth_]

Its summer. If you played in a collegiate tournament this year, and that tournament used a website to organize the results and details.

Do the future a favor.
Go to the Internet Archive.
Go to the Wayback Machine.
Use the Save Page Now feature.

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

This has actually blown up into A Mystery that a coworker is digging into through his work connections. Stay tuned if we actually find these artworks!

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

"Like, you'd think I'd know if I had two mural panels that were 7 feet tall in our storage space. But I've been surprised before." #thatarchiveslife #archivistproblems

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

"Like, you'd think I'd know if I had two mural panels that were 7 feet tall in our storage space. But I've been surprised before." #thatarchiveslife #archivistproblems

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

@michaeldthomas @lynnemthomas Fly high, Space Unicorn 🦄 💔

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

@authorblues So... they're taking the approach of a academic/professional organization's conference planning then? 😬

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

Me: Hey honey look how cute this Lego Adventure Banana Guy looks in Lego Fortnite!
Also me, 10 days later: If this Lego truck flips over on me in the Frostlands, so help me…

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

Oh yeah, my departments finished moving all their boxes out of our storage space as of a week ago. It's just been Murphy's Law regarding everything else but that lately. #thatarchiveslife

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

I think WHY I got in trouble was that other students saw what I was doing & started doodling too. Then some students saw what everyone else was doing & got upset. I don't know why a 1st grade teacher thought an activity w/ photocopied portraits was a good idea.

[Becky Briggs Becker @BeckerCheez]

I was anxiety ridden & only had 2 "yellow lights" in 1st grade. One of them makes me realize I had ADHD back then: Photocopied portraits of our classmates. So bored I doodled cat ears & whiskers on one of the portraits. Would have doodled on all of them had teacher not noticed.