We’re accepting applications for a tenure-track, faculty archivist here at A&SC. The job ad appears below. If you’re interested, apply at the University’s job site. September 4, 2009 is when the search committee will be begin reviewing applications. The …
I (Arlene) am off to Austin this week for the annual Society of American Archivists conference. MC will be holding down the fort, with an occasional substitution by Nicole. So it’s probably going to be fairly quiet on the blog …
So I (Arlene) was staying far too late on a Friday night just finishing up some small details. I was almost down the stairs and out the door when I heard my name called behind me. It was Sharyl Kitchin, …
No, no, not what you’re thinking. It’s time for the annual A&SC report to the library on how we did on our goals last year and what our goals are for the next. Since this is done via a presentation …
So, we’ve not been very good about the blog this week. But we have an excuse. Between researchers, Nicole, Mariecris and I (Arlene) have been working for Kathy. Kathy’s a pretty hard taskmaster. So we’re keeping busy–or at least telling …
Sadly, most of you are probably too young to remember this particular ad campaign (sigh). Or cassette tapes, for that matter (double sigh.)
I (Arlene) have been thinking about the whole digital thing today. And whether or not a digital …
So we’ve been hearing a lot about the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. And I (Arlene) realize we’re a week or so late with this. But hopefully you’ll forgive us.
At any rate, one of the things that’s …
I (Mariecris) love movies and am especially excited when archives make it into the movies. In Fool’s Gold, the two main characters utilize the archives to find hidden treasure. Robert Langdon, in Angels and Demons, navigates temperature and …
[Mariecris:] When working the reference desk you never know what type of reference requests will come along. Some of them are pretty consistent: people doing research for a book/dissertation, requesting images for a documentary or exhibit, compiling family history etc.…
Who knew that hieroglyphics existed as late as the 1970s? I (Mariecris) made this discovery when looking through a collection with a donor. She was describing all the files she would deposit in the archives. One of the files she …
