Some days you just have to dump all those waiting reports and documents to write and such and just spend a day moving stuff about. Today was that day. And it all started with the picturingUAA project. We’ve been putting things in on a collection by collection basis. So the…
COnservation OnLine, that is. This great public resource for matters conservation has been resurrected and made available online again. Go take a look! Click on Resource Center and there it is, about half-way down the page.
Last year we did a great exhibit called “Eye of the Beholder.” Well, not so much we, as everybody else who decided to do the really heavy lifting for us. Here’s the theory behind the exhibit: take a single photograph, ask people to do interpretation, modification, whatever they feel represents…
Last year, to great acclaim, we launched an exhibit in October entitled Eye of the Beholder. We took a single image from our holdings and sent out a call in September for anybody within UAA and APU to provide interpretation of the image. That interpretation would then be used for…
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 recruitment is subject to closing without notice at any time after…
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 this week, unless I discover something fantastic I just have…
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, of the library’s Access Services department. Turns out there was…
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 to any library employees that want to attend and that…
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 her we’re keeping busy. This week has been part of…
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 surrogate is truly as good as the original. For many…
