A gallery of endpapers
I always loved endpapers (who doesn’t?) so it put a smile on my face to see this endpaper gallery. Something for a rainy Friday afternoon (from a northern California perspective).
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mp3’s from Digitization Matters forum
Not only do we have a new web-presence (as Merrilee has noted below), now we’re actually stuffing it with neat content. The mp3 files from the recent Digitization Matters forum …
Read MoreArchives and Special Collections / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Measurement and Behaviors / Renovating Descriptive Practice
More Consensus; Less Controversy
A graduate student in history from UIUC told an audience of archivists at SAA that, because she begins her research on the web, she wants to know all the collections …
Read MoreFrom hand-crafted to mass digitized
Ricky, Jennifer and I just got back from the joint RLG Programs / SAA sponsored forum “Digitization Matters.” We spent the day discussing with a sell-out crowd of 200 archivists …
Read MoreI want to be a starchivist!
Nope, I’m not an archivist, either*. But what I really want to be when I grow up is a starchivist. I found this term one of my favorite new reads …
Read MoreIdentities report
My colleague Thom has already referred to this report on WorldCat Identities, but I’d like to highlight it as well. The report outlines progress so far, and next steps identified. …
Read MoreWiki for upcoming SAA meeting
This is old news for Society of American Archivist members who receive email updates from SAA, but still worth mentioning. There is a (unofficial) Wiki up for the 2007 SAA …
Read MoreArchivist as hero
It’s always nice when someone in the media gives a nod to our professions; even if they insist on some stereotyping. It’s even better when that media is the New …
Read MoreUpcoming RLG Programs events
Just in case these have slipped by you… On June 4th and 5th, we’ll be holding the RLG Programs Annual Meeting. This is your chance to hear about the RLG …
Read MoreBad News from Baghdad
Yesterday I learned of the news from Saad Eskander, Director of the National Archives and Library of Iraq, as reported by Patricia Sleeman on the Archivists discussion list in the …
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