Vera 10/29/09 - A Sensation of Progress

When I came in today, Dustin and I went back into the Archives for an impromptu discussion about what I had accomplished the day before and a few assessments I had made. Most importantly, I suggested that we adjust the shelves in the heel section to the height of financial records boxes allowing for the insertion of more shelves and thus a more efficient use of the space.

After Dustin left me to work, I decided to dive into the hideous mess that was the boxes of random phone and power cords. I reached in only to find many other items such has 6 or 7 different sized Net Gear and Linksys routers along with old computer mice. I set these items aside while I consolidated all the multi-line phones in the box on the left and then began the tedious process of neatly binding the phone wires. This allowed for the wires all to fit snugly into one box. I then returned to the mice and routers and decided to put all the mice into a small white bin and the routers, along with 5 extra keyboards, into the file cabinet to temporarily clear the space.

This consolidation left me with a whole new shelf to work with. So I began placing all the remaining poster folders onto this open shelf in the center. This opened up the space to the right of the shin shelf which turned out be a perfect size for one of the canopy frames. All while the random wiring remained in the small white box in the bottom of the image.

At this point I decided I was ready to seek some executive decisions on what items could be removed and or disposed of. So Shannon and I entered the archives together for a joint assessment. Altogether we disposed of all the keyboards, all the routers save one, the out of date Regence Health Insurance documents, and decided we would dispose of the old computer monitor next week. Additionally, Shannon took the a box full of both the previous and current Vera Strategic Plan manuals, decided we should move the shop vac elsewhere and suggested I tag the remaining electronic equipment and manuals for Jeffery to examine.

It was after the last 20 minutes or so with Shannon that I really felt as though we had made some real progress. The images below show the Archives as I left it today.

Summary:

2:00 PM - In The Archives
*Brief reprisal of the previous day's progress with Dustin
*Arranged a time with Terri to walk me through the electronic archiving process
*Significant Changes
- consolidated the mass of phone and power cords into one box

>Jefferey will examine these
- consolidated multi-line phones into one box
- consolidated all mice into small white bin

>Dustin will test them to see which ones work
- consolidated all computer programs and manuals into one box
- removed the shop vac
- tagged the anaconda device, mixing board, and boxes full of audio equipment manuals for
Jefferey to examine
- removed old keyboards and routers
- Shannon took the box of excess strategic plan books
- removed old Regence health insurance documents
- moved all event posters onto the Shin Shelf
- moved one of the canopy frames next to the Shin Shelf