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For those interested in my continued internet-access welfare,today I’m at the Starbucks down the street from the hotel. I didn’t pay the $14.95 for today;I decided to make use of some free hours that I had on a Starbucks rewards card. We’ll see if I get tired of that quickly,I guess. Yesterday’s [...]
How can you tell that it’s time for the 72nd annual meeting? Well,the “picnic”posts on the A&A listserv by non-attending archivists is one way…and another is the appearance of the un-official SAA meeting wiki (thanks to Jeanne Kramer-Smyth). This year,Kate from Archives Next is taking a page from library bloggers [...] I’ve been busy with life over the past week or so,and have several half-finished blog posts (and even more ideas) waiting in the wings,but wanted to point out a few archives-related news items in the meantime. Recalling a Mission to Capture an Era’s Misery “Migrant Mother,” Dorothea Lange’s image of a weathered,grimy [...] Last Saturday,the world of bibliographic control lost a giant,and librarians everywhere lost a friend and mentor. Professor Allen Smith will be remembered by me as a gentle man of many talents,with a wicked sense of humor about the subjects he taught,and about life. From the notification that was sent out [...] The Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum in Philadelphia discovered what may be the missing third copy of the Confederate terms of surrender signed at Appomattox by Robert E. Lee in 1865. Where was it? The Civil War &Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia has held the document since the early 20th century. It was [...] I’ve been reading Advocating Archives:An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists (ed. Elsie Freeman Finch),and one of the first things that she talks about in her chapter (Talking to the Angel) is the different,overlapping roles that archivists play with researchers and each other. The three user models that she discusses include archivist [...] Today marks my one year anniversary at this job,as well as the beginning of my second year of post-graduate,full-time employment as an archivist. “I’d like to thank the academy…” Really,in a lot of ways,I’m so glad that I took the leap and moved across the country to take this position. [...] |
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