Emerging research on personal interest researchers in archives
Archives Month 2023 is coming to an end in the US. If you want to get caught up on our posts celebrating the interesting things we learned about archives and …
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Digitization and access in archives
In my last Archives Month post, I reflected on the shift in practice related to allowing researchers to use cameras in special collections reading rooms, and what this has meant …
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Cameras in the reading room and the arc of change in archival practice
One of the cool things about reaching mid-career is that I’ve now been around long enough to see patterns of change in the profession. I’ve recently been working on a …
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Science fiction, Smaug’s Lair, and the powerful skill of archivists
October is Archives Month in the US. All month, lots of different archives will be highlighting the cool, the weird, the interesting, and the important things in their collections and …
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A Year of Living Dangerously For Archives (and you)
[This post is in honor of American Archives Month, which starts today!] This year at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting, incoming SAA president Kathleen Roe kicked off her …
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