Well, the test is taken. Now all I have to do is wait for the results. All those people who say the exam is tricky? They're absolutely correct. Very few questions were obvious, regardless of how much reading you did or how long you've been working as an archivist. The part of me that admires good work has to admit that this is a well-crafted, if slightly diabolical, exam. I wanted to explain so badly why I chose certain answers over others, knowing that I wasn't choosing incorrectly but that I may not have discovered the best answer according to the ACA.
Reading the Archival Fundamentals II series proved to be a very good move on my part and I'm seriously considering buying my own copy of Ritzenthaler's Preserving Archives and Manuscripts. All of the AFS books were well-written and informative, but I consumed that one like I would a novel. And I've just requested the Photographs: Archival Care and Management book through ILL because I really don't know enough about photographs yet.
Meanwhile, I now go back to my pre-exam life of full-time work and part-time grad school with a little bit of fun thrown in to keep things interesting. I think I'll move a map case next week. Why we have one set stacked two high and one set stacked four high is beyond me, but two stacks of three seems like a good goal if I can get enough hands together to safely shift the beastie.
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