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infodiva.com began somewhere around 1996, give or take a a year. Why the name? It was a nickname a few co-workers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center gave me when I was a wee librarian lass of 25, freshly minted M.L.I.S. in hand. That was longer ago than I care to admit. I tended to keep infodiva.com on the down-low, using it mostly as a space for personal professional development.

infodiva.com has been dark since 2001 -- the year I went back to school at UCLA for a post-masters certificate in digital archives as a bit of a compatability test. I was toying with the idea of doing a doctorate about authenticity in digital records when the records are complex digital objects. A post-masters seemed like a good way to figure out if I wanted to spend a few years with that department working on a dissertation. Long story short: academia can suck sweaty donky butt and I quickly determined that getting a doctorate was not a stay mentally-healthy option for me. I've decided to make infodiva.com live once again since this whole 2.0 what have you is getting out of hand. I need to keep up, pure and simple.

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Repository rat is a term for institutional repository workers which was coined by Dorothea Salo, repository librarian extraordinaire. The name suits. I'm currently in the maze. Developing web-based services in an environment of constant change and limited resources can be crazy-making. I don't work at a fancy-pants DLF library. I ain't got no stinkin' grants. I'm happy to work in the environment I'm in. There are many institutions similiar to mine I'd imagine -- short-staffed but dedicated to developing new and useful services despite the political potholes. The practical question is then, how does one make do and stay balanced? I need to stress that I love my job. This is not a place where I whine about the challenges I face. It's where I muck about and try to solve the puzzles. The standard disclaimer applies.

Repositories for the rest of us is my extremely biased ranting and brainstorming as I bring a repository service to production level.

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