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The
Slide Archive
In
the teaching system of the Archaeology Department the slide is
the most used medium. Weekly, the department’s photographer Tuðrul
Çakar produces c. 150 new slides ordered by the faculty
members.
Therefore,
the old archive set-up with plastic containers and fixed
magazines became, by a few years ago, insufficient.
To
resolve this problem new cabinets were ordered from Tepe Home, a
furniture firm within the Bilkent organization.
Each
of the four cabinets has 3 rows of 14 drawers. Each drawer is
divided into 3 compartments. The total capacity of the 4
cabinets is around 37,000 slides.
At
the moment there are more than 14,000 registered slides and a
backlog of several thousand more, some of them ordered years
ago, before the filing system was set up, and often difficult to
identify!
In the
archive room there is usually much activity, since more than 10
students work here during the week and sometimes on the weekend.
Everyone has a specific job, which makes it over a long period
maybe a bit boring, but also easier to control. Some students
are cutting new films and mounting the slides in frames, then
giving numbers. Others write labels in the computer. Labels are
printed on adhesive material, which makes sticking them much
easier. Old writing is removed and the slides are, if necessary,
repositioned in one uniform manner. Since the slides are
registered in an Excel workbook, they can be sorted to
everybody’s desires. They are stored according to place/site
and category of object.
Ben
Claasz Coockson
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Illustrations from the USERS ’
GUIDE’
(drawings:
B. Claasz Coockson 2001)
Newsletter No. 1
- 2002, Pg. 33
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