Small administrative changes

I’ve been neglecting this site for awhile in favor of other projects. Clearly it hasn’t been a priority,but I’ve been feeling the return of the muse lately,and so I’m hopeful that there will be more posts (and more frequent posts) soon.

To that end,I realized recently as I was fooling around with [...]

Raising Your Museum Profile 101:April Fool?

How to increase your visitor stream? Well,after the National Portrait Gallery hung Stephen Colbert’s portrait by the bathrooms for an announced six-week “exhibition,”fans and visitors flocked to the portrait. So last Monday,Stephen stopped by to check in with his portrait–and the National Portrait Gallery announced due to the popularity of the “exhibit,”[...]

Service and the profession(al)

A few weeks ago,I was busy filling out my Annual Faculty Evaluation for 2007. Because it runs with the calendar year,and as of December I’d only been at my current institution for five months,there were understandably some gaps. Since I’m not teaching,the areas that I needed to fill were those of [...]

Penn,Capa,Taro,Lincoln,and Flickr:Oh my!

This seems to be a banner season for archives and photographs. Suddenly,it seems like wherever I turn,I run into more articles about donations and recent findings.

First it was the snapshots that quite possibly show Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg some 144 years ago,on the day of delivering his famous address. This op-ed [...]

What kind of rat is welcomed in Special Collections?

Apparently,self-proclaimed “archives rat”Drew Gilpin Faust,president of Harvard University. I wonder how many other university presidents (or indeed,faculty) are more than marginally aware that archives may exist on their campuses?

Full Washington Post article here.