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To Look Into The Abyss Unafraid: Being A Tale Of A Newly Hired Systems Librarian Teaming Up With A Library Director To Purge The Demons Hiding In A Very Old Web Server, Edward Iglesias, Dawn Emsellem

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Upon being hired in May 2022 as a Systems and Technology librarian presenter Iglesias had the unenviable task of taking over management of Salve University Library's web server. Although the Internet Archive lists its first snapshot of this url as being in 2000, there is evidence of an older, more chaotic past. From a Unix server of some sort to a Microsoft box that just had all of the files loaded on with no thought to directory structure leaving tantalizing clues everywhere from old directories to flash files now deprecated.

Obviously there was a need to get rid of the …