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informationscienceantelope:
[Have no qualms about removing materials in accordance with retention schedules or weeding out books at work,
Hoard books at home]
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[Have no qualms about removing materials in accordance with retention schedules or weeding out books at work,
Hoard books at home]
gpoy
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informationscienceantelope:
[Remind friends to date their notebooks/sketchbooks/journals,
Archival outreach quota met for the week]
probably late to this nerd party. FASHIONABLY.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3l0q52cTt1r8rqtqo1_400.jpg)
[Remind friends to date their notebooks/sketchbooks/journals,
Archival outreach quota met for the week]
probably late to this nerd party. FASHIONABLY.
(via awesomearchives)
Canadians generally don’t visit archives to have a cultural experience, they visit archives because they need them - to confirm rights, provide evidence, as sources for research, etc.
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Lara Wilson
Note: A colleague reading these words commented on how this statement reflected the fact that archives are not just a “nice-to-have” but a must-have. Hopefully you will be similarly inspired!
(via archiviststrek2012)
Archivists, wherever they work and however they are positioned, are subject to the call of and for justice. For the archive can never be a quiet retreat for professionals and scholars and craftspersons. It is a crucible of human experience, a battleground for meaning and significance, a babel of stores, a place and space of complex and ever-shifting power-plays. Here one cannot keep one’s hands clean
— Verne Harris, “The Archival Sliver: Power, Memory, and Archives in South Africa” (via cartulary)
(via shelbysmith)
(Source: tastefullyoffensive, via juliasegal)
(Source: teachingliteracy, via libraryland)
Historypunk: Will future historians face a Digital Dark Age?
Lack of historical evidence has always been one of the greatest frustrations facing historians. Skills such as reading and writing were long the preserve of a privileged few – resulting in a historical record that often reflects the voices of those in power and obscures the lives of…
(via 1930 Evening Gown With Gathered Neckline)
Maybe if I was a better seamstress and had loads of free time I would order patterns from the Vintage Pattern Lending Library.
This is why walking backwards, pulling a full cart is a Bad Idea. You just might run into the corner of a metal shelf with your elbow. At least there was a nurse in the building—she gave me an ice pack—I was grateful.
I’m following youuuu…
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And they say Archivists don’t have a sense of Humor
Wait—who says that?
This just came in through the archives listserv, and I thought it was hilarious, so I’m passing it on.
Alternative Sorting Schemas For Special Collections and Archives
Everyone who works in archives is familiar with the traditional ways of organizing collections - namely chronological order and alphabetical order. But in the 21st century are these methods of classification really passé? Do they really help researchers get a feel for and understanding of the collection?
Below are some alternative organizing schemas that might be more useful to archivists and helpful to researchers.
Today I just wanted to scream, “THESE ARE MY RECORDS MINEMINEIMINEMINE DO WHAT I SAY OR ELSE.”
But I didn’t.
(Source: zombiexlovechild, via poplibrary)
Hood collar coat - André Studios 1930-1941
This digitization project is WAY cooler than the one I work for.
On dating a non-archivist
This guy I’ve been seeing thinks it’s “sexy” that I’m passionate about my job—which is cool—I think? But no matter how many times I explain what an archivist does, he still thinks I’m a librarian. I’ve decided to roll with it.
