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Have you been reading the updates on the Haiti earthquake and wishing that you could help? Are you an archivist,conservator,preservation professional? Read on. There has been a call for volunteers through the Blue Shield network,and according to the International Council of Archives,as of February 11,2010,there have been over [...] A quick roundup of things that have recently caught my attention: Are archivists today’s real peacemakers? Politicians,beauty queens,and rock stars all claim they want world peace. But could the unassuming archivist,more likely to be found buried in a stack of yellowing newspapers than at a global summit,be [...] I’m preparing to spend 1.5 days as a participant at THATCamp Columbus,and I’m really excited about the possibilities. Some of you may recall that I was also a participant in THATCamp Austin back in August,and I came away from that experience with some solid ideas and some [...] Fifteen museums and cultural institutions (including the Smithsonian American Art Museum) are participating in Wikipedia Loves Art ,a scavenger hunt/content-building contest that looks like a whole lot of fun. Check out the Flickr group and rules here. Some of the prizes that looked most toothsome to me: Indianapolis Museum of Art The photographer with [...]
Memphis TV station WHBQ put together a website containing historical video footage from the Memphis sanitation workers strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to their city during a period of demonstrations and unrest. Take a look here:A View From the Mountaintop I think this is an interesting example of a group [...] As an archivist (and come to think of it,as a person),outreach is something that I am passionate about. When I hear stories like the one below,my first instinct is:how can I help? How can I make this better? The story,from NPR:Saving Folk History,One Recording at a Time [...] One of the more exasperating things about travel (and particularly holiday travel) is the dearth of time that I seem to have for sitting down and thinking (and then posting) about things that I want to discuss–and I’ve been doing a lot of traveling over the past few months. Something that I’ve been thinking [...] I’m in Chicago this week,attending NEDCC‘s Persistence of Memory conference,and I hope to share some thoughts about that soon,once I’ve digested things a bit. Until then,a quick article about public records and a recent ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court from the Columbus Dispatch. A brief snippet: Even deleted e-mail messages [...] As a sort of side note to recent conversations in the archivo-blogosphere about preserving digital conversation,and the sometimes fleeting nature of born-digital materials,I’ve been following a few discussions about the nature of blogging and how that fits with the academic system. The question of whether blogs can be “worthwhile”and “academic”has been [...] With the news today that The Christian Science Monitor is moving away from their traditional print-based platform to an online-only daily version (and a weekly print magazine),I’m wondering how archives and libraries who currently receive this and similar paper publications are planning to keep these digital representations long-term. I know that there are other [...] |
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