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I’ve now worked at the RAC for eleven years, which is long enough that several processes that I helped to define and put into place need to be re-examined and completely overhauled. This has been a thought-provoking (and to be honest, feelings-provoking) process, and has got me thinking a lot about what it means to acknowledge and deal with things that aren’t working.

This is not a blog post about our successful implementation of Kubernetes, but rather how and why we decided not to migrate to Kubernetes after two years of work. I will attempt to call out our hypotheses and acknowledge where our thinking was wrong, and ultimately talk about the difficulties we faced and lessons we learned along the way.

The Rockefeller Archive Center is developing a system wherein audiovisual file delivery, validation, quality control, and affixing rights statements can occur entirely in a Cloud setting.

Interning for the Rockefeller Archive Center at the Cohen Library’s Archives and Special Collections this spring semester gave me the opportunity to understand the process of archival preservation and research.

As an undergraduate history major, history is something that has mostly existed for me in the abstract: as a set of ideas and arguments over the events of the past; humankind’s cumulative collection of stories that have shaped the present. Yet, I always knew that there was an underlying foundation, the physical evidence that holds together and allows researchers to expand the construction of history.