I stumbled upon this interesting interview that I thought to share. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Natural History Specimens as Social Media Celebrities
Afterward, become friends with The Petroleum Museum's resident iguana, Liz Frizzle on Facebook!
Friday, September 24, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Learn from Mistakes or Words of Caution
Eek! It's been almost a month since I last posted! My apologies in my failure to be a good blogger. I will try to be better from now on ...
Last week was a very hectic one. Between prepping and installing the new exhibit, The Movement Westward and getting ready for the Museum's Birthday Bash celebrating 35 years (not to mention the West Texas Cruisers Car Show that Saturday and some personal projects I needed to get done), life at the Museum was on full-steam.
AND then I made a HUGE mistake.
On Wednesday, the day before the party itself, the day I worked all-day on proofing, printing and laminating the exhibit labels, I goofed big. While trying to do too many things at once on my computer, namely back-up the files on the Musem's server onto my external hard drive, I accidently deleted several folders on the server. (The folders were highlighted when I tried to delete another folder also highlighted.) They were gone.
Luckily, I save those files on a monthly basis. I had those folders from the last back-up, a month prior. In the end, I only lost about about a month's worth of work, from correspondence to the cataloguing project. I'm not too worried about the correspondence because I save hard copies in object files. I'm more worried about the cataloguing work which was saved as an Excel spreadsheet. Because of the stress of the week, I couldn't let myself worry too much about it!
So now I have to take information from the database and the object files, and recreate the spreadsheets. At least I only am missing three years (1980 - 1982)! It could be worse, a lot worse; I could be missing two decades worth of work. In the words of Monty Python, "Look on the bright side of life!"
Last week was a very hectic one. Between prepping and installing the new exhibit, The Movement Westward and getting ready for the Museum's Birthday Bash celebrating 35 years (not to mention the West Texas Cruisers Car Show that Saturday and some personal projects I needed to get done), life at the Museum was on full-steam.
AND then I made a HUGE mistake.
On Wednesday, the day before the party itself, the day I worked all-day on proofing, printing and laminating the exhibit labels, I goofed big. While trying to do too many things at once on my computer, namely back-up the files on the Musem's server onto my external hard drive, I accidently deleted several folders on the server. (The folders were highlighted when I tried to delete another folder also highlighted.) They were gone.
Luckily, I save those files on a monthly basis. I had those folders from the last back-up, a month prior. In the end, I only lost about about a month's worth of work, from correspondence to the cataloguing project. I'm not too worried about the correspondence because I save hard copies in object files. I'm more worried about the cataloguing work which was saved as an Excel spreadsheet. Because of the stress of the week, I couldn't let myself worry too much about it!
So now I have to take information from the database and the object files, and recreate the spreadsheets. At least I only am missing three years (1980 - 1982)! It could be worse, a lot worse; I could be missing two decades worth of work. In the words of Monty Python, "Look on the bright side of life!"
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