The New Crew at Thomas Thomson House

TTH in June

New to the team: James and Margaret Reid, from Livingston. Those who were assigned to Livingston will remember them I'm sure. It was interesting for me to be their prospective supervisor and their Bishop. I got to call them, set them apart, and then work with them!

The Birthday girl, Cindy Lee and her Husband Allan busy at the camera

Mary Jo O'Neal and her husband JT, who was away sick when the photos were taken!

Linda and Ned Iverson had at work!

And lastly Mike trying to make out he's working!!!!

Happy Birthday to you.....

The Birthday Girl, Cindy Lee had her birthday today. She has lost her voice poor thing!

The gangs nearly all here!One Cake! Allan tried to make out he made it!!!

Remember Ann? She joined us for cake.Because you're all gone, look at the size of pieces we get to eat!!

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!!!!!