Archive and off-site mapping

Off-site copies fail in unglamorous ways: a crate labelled for March that holds February, a book that was signed by a person who no longer works there, a room whose key is with a neighbour. This consultation is a walk with a notebook, not a scan of barcodes from a distance.

We visit the place that signs the courier book and the place the crates actually live. We open a sample of crates you permit. We draw a map: office, road, room, shelf, crate, and the last date someone fetched a volume and tried it.

Clients in Imereti often keep a municipal archive and a private room in the same story. The map is meant to be pinned in both. If we find a crate that cannot be identified, it is drawn in ember and left for you to open; we do not force lids.

Ask for this when a Recovery Readiness Review has already shown that the jobs look tidy and the off-site story does not.