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Was 2020 the Year of the LAM?
Dec. 2nd, 2020 12:11 pmAs in Libraries, Archives and Museums? Though nowadays they seem to use the acronym GLAM (the G standing for Galleries) or even the much less acronymically inclined GLAMR to include Records management as well. Sometimes we may not recognize the significance of events at the time they occur but 2020 has become for a huge swath of the world's population The Year of the Pandemic. Many of us are capturing history in the making, but archivists are perhaps at the forefront:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/hindsight-2020-how-archivists-work-to-remember-a-year-most-would-rather-forget-1.5213265?fbclid=IwAR2gzxmpcIIWT8CFgqanPYYBz5VDazVn4yFjhIiVOHtD_bXEPqkiZ6zfE3g
And most of it is far from GLAMR-ous.
As for the year of the LAM? Well, we'll have to wait until 2027 for another Year of the Sheep, also sometimes called the Year of the Ram or the Year of the Goat.
Meanwhile, 2019 was a Pig of a year, when the virus first started to go hog-wild. We're still in the Year of the Rat, and rats are of course associated with great plagues and disease and death. We've paid the piper as best we can this year, but he's already marched off with a lot of the world's population, more oldsters than youngsters.
But take heart - 2021 will be the Year of the Ox, beginning around early February and with new vaccines providing herd immunity, perhaps we will all be as strong as oxen!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/hindsight-2020-how-archivists-work-to-remember-a-year-most-would-rather-forget-1.5213265?fbclid=IwAR2gzxmpcIIWT8CFgqanPYYBz5VDazVn4yFjhIiVOHtD_bXEPqkiZ6zfE3g
And most of it is far from GLAMR-ous.
As for the year of the LAM? Well, we'll have to wait until 2027 for another Year of the Sheep, also sometimes called the Year of the Ram or the Year of the Goat.
Meanwhile, 2019 was a Pig of a year, when the virus first started to go hog-wild. We're still in the Year of the Rat, and rats are of course associated with great plagues and disease and death. We've paid the piper as best we can this year, but he's already marched off with a lot of the world's population, more oldsters than youngsters.
But take heart - 2021 will be the Year of the Ox, beginning around early February and with new vaccines providing herd immunity, perhaps we will all be as strong as oxen!
