Well after last week's unplanned cancellation, it was back to cataloguing the bottles as promised, as well as a few more books in the historic book collection
the job itself was fairly straightforward, and as I'd carefully packed up a box with my little Linux documentation laptop, some weights to hold the background down, right angled rulers etc it seemed to be really quick - actually it took me about an hour due to being out of practice in assembling a documentation package, but I got there.
I'm happy that the procedure, derived from my work with both Lake View and Dow's is robust. My only real worry is the use of excel format for the spreadsheet - its use is only because the National Trust had a workflow where they converted the excel spreadsheets automagically to csv for ingest to their archive management system.
It could be argued that instead of xlsx I should have used ods, or indeed generated a csv format file to ensure the long term accessibility of the data.
In this case I don't think it matters over much, but just for fun I added an ods and csv subdirectory with the supplementary spreadsheets
and replaced the manifest.txt file with an updated version to reflect this change.
Other than that it was simply a case of yet more documentation of the historic book collection.
No spectacular finds, just mid century romance and mystery novels, which perhaps reflects a post war desire for a touch of colour and escapism, but I did find one book that had previously belonged to a circulating library in Melbourne operated by Myer's ...
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