You may all be home, but your presence is still felt.....

Just before I was due to leave this afternoon Ann came down with a problem. She was trying to look at a volume of Wills and Testaments through Virtual Volume and instead of seeing the wills she saw some Sasine entries! What had gone wrong? Time to turn detective!
I checked the log file database and found who was the culprit. Sorry, Del, it was you!! I don't know how you managed it, but it seems that you started imaging the Sasine, having completed the Wills, but didn't change the volume reference number in the meta data although you got every thing else. At least the original images had made it to the disk in one piece! Easy fix. One question remains: What did we send to SLC?

Changing cameras

Here is the old Atmel camera, now retired. They put in about 8 years of faithful service, I suspect close to 12 million images with our team and the back shift - a team brought in by the NAS to image the later collections of the Borough Sasines.
Along with the Atmels, dCAM 1.3 was also retired as the new cameras were installed. They are called Illunis and have 16 million pixels give or take the odd pixel. They work with dCAM 2.5. Although it's not the newest version, it is an improvement on 1.3. They are a colour camera and the speed of capture is something else! No longer do we wait for 8 or more seconds before we can raise the glass! With the right document and a willing hand, over 20 images a secomd can be captured.

The old and new, side by side. No RGB filter required either! Only 2 cables too! How things have changed.

The Return of the Big Books.....

After what seems like a famine of books, especially in March when some of us (mainly the missionaries) were on "short time" so to speak, the big books returned today! Below are just some of them.

"It's too heavy!! Where's the trolly?" Mike cries.

Who said it wouldn't fit??!!

Wish you were here!!

I woke up yesterday morning and looked out the window and saw this sight! It's May 12th - what's with the snow!!!

Fortunately it didn't last. Any of you remember snow in May while you were here? Nothing would surprise me this year after the winter we have had!

Where's the sun??

The Mary Celeste.....?

It felt like the Mary Celeste, often mistakenly refered to as the Marie Celeste, today. I managed to get in and out with out my pass okay. I'll make sure I have the pass tomorrow!

The front of the room.... no one here but the supervisor!!

The lights are on but no ones home...

Only managed 1850 images today - not bad considering that my book had lots of blank pages, light and dark pages, and the need to slip sheet every few images to block the page numbers from the next page!!!!!

All quiet at the archive front......

All the missionaries are attending a Zone Conference with Elder Hinkley today, so I'm left on my own like "Billy no mates"!! Seriously it's nice that they can take time out of the archives and meet with the other missionries and listen to visiting General Authorities.

I remember on my mission when we were visited by such people as Marvin J Ashton, Neal A Maxwell and Paul H Dunn, to drop a few names.......

Hopefully I'll get at lot of work done with every one gone.

Today is not the day to have left one's pass at home....... I'm sure it was in my pocket when I left home.......

The Traveller returns

With a bright and early start, I left Edinburgh behind for a day trip to Belfast. A cloudy overcast day turned into sunshine as the plane broke through the clouds. About 45 minutes later I landed at Belfast City Airport, to find no taxis and a long queue at the taxi rank! Finally I arrived at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

This is David Brown, the colleague I came to help. Spent the morning sorting out the problems and helped out in other areas. Hopefully I've done some good.

Belfast is the city where they made the Titanic - not the movie, the ship! Here are the cranes that mark the shipyard. I'm not sure if these cranes were there when the ship was made or not, but can you imagine the ship towering over the city?

Chris, having made sure that I had plenty of time to help David booked me on a late flight out of Belfast. That meant I had lots of time to watch the planes land and take off. The plane flew over Livingston and I could see the chapel from the air. It looked different. It was too dark to try and take a picture. When ever I fly over Livingston I try to see my house, but the flight path is directly over it. Never mind!

It's good to be home.