Charlotte Chaffey

I love finding hidden treasures in the Royal Ontario Museum's Archives. Archivist, Records Manager @ROMToronto. She/her

[Abbi Leckebusch @AbbiLeckebusch]

This Halloween, why not scare your local archivist by dressing up as:

- A rusty staple
- A box labelled 'misc'
- A pen in a searchroom
- Someone trying to order a 240 box collection
- A postal deposit of floppy discs
- Someone asking why you can't just 'digitise everything'

[Fake Library Statistics @FakeLibStats]

The greatest mystery of library science is why it takes a minimum of three tries to get anything into a USB outlet

[Royal Ontario Museum @ROMtoronto]

A Field Guide to Trees of Ontario is now available to purchase!

This visually rich book connects us to the oldest, tallest & largest plants in Ontario’s flora and is essential for every outdoor enthusiast, arborist, landscape architect & amateur or professional biologist. 🌳

[Charlotte Chaffey @chaffey_c]

@kironcmukherjee Every stage is wonderful in its way. Love her little smile.

[Fake Library Statistics @FakeLibStats]

76% of librarians quietly sing the alphabet song to themselves when shelving

[YorkU Archives & Special Collections @yorkuASC]

In today’s blog post, our new Special Collections Cataloguing Assistant Taylor Tryburski discusses some of the items she has catalogued since joining CTASC. We hope to make this a regular feature as Taylor makes her way through our backlog of treasures. https://t.co/XnLPGNjFLv

[archivistmemes @archivistmemes]

We welcome our latest submission:

Anonymous. Commentary on administrative understanding of online archives. 21 January 2022.

[Charlotte Chaffey @chaffey_c]

@kironcmukherjee @ROMtoronto Is there anything creepier than being alone in the basement of the Planetarium?!

[Dee Bowers @infomartian]

did it hurt? when you saw how many scrapbooks full of newspaper clippings are in that collection you're about to process? #archivistlife @archivistmemes

[Charlotte Chaffey @chaffey_c]

@Lbabinz Got it at the regular price $99. Thanks!

[Shannon O'Brien @loislane99]

Is there a word for the “I want schools to reopen but with better ventilation but I need them out of the house but I want them to see their grandparents but I want to save their mental health but I don’t want this to fuck up summer and I’m furious with the prov govt” feeling?

[Charlotte Chaffey @chaffey_c]

@Sethmains Solidarity (except mine is 6).

[Charlotte Chaffey @chaffey_c]

@wrdodger Someone with zero understanding of social media made that decision.

[Queen's Archives @queensarchives]

Every #archivist everywhere: 🤞Please let it be the long form 🤞 please let it be the long form🤞Pick me #Census2021

[Charlotte Chaffey @chaffey_c]

@julie_binmore Wonderful!

[Charlotte Chaffey @chaffey_c]

@danielleganza So true! I love students but I don't love hoards of them arriving at once. I'm a lone arranger and have limited resources.

[Charlotte Chaffey @chaffey_c]

@MavenOfMayhem So many dishes! Enjoy the respite.

[Charlotte Chaffey @chaffey_c]

@JulieMTome Solidarity. Gr1 and Gr 3 over here.