This class has been the most challenging and fulfilling of my MLIS journey so far, thank you Professor Lawrimore. I now realize that I essentially knew nothing about how archives function and the challenges that they face at the beginning of this class. In my naivete I subscribed to the Read more…
For this assignment I viewed the video Corrective collecting: A practical, holistic, EDI-centered strategy for community archives, with Chela Scott Walker, Sr. Program Officer, OCLC Research Library Partnership interviewing Conor Casey, Head of Labor Archives of Washington. Casey was the founding archivist of Labor Archives of Washington, LAW, which is Read more…
You discover a bag full of records in the basement of the company you are working for as a corporate archivist. On the face of it, it is clear that the documents contain very sensitive information on slush money paid by your company and bribery by the Chief Executive Officer. Read more…
While I was (eventually) able to get my timeline to load on this blog, it’s much nicer looking (at least on my computer) here, so I would suggest looking at it there for easier reading. In general I found working with TimelineJS really great, after getting over the initial fear Read more…
What are archives? Stated simply, an archives is a place that houses collections of records and makes them available to be used in various ways by patrons. In the archives world, the word record refers to any sort of data or information in a form that can be saved. For Read more…
The Eric Theodore Carlson Papers, Scope and Content Note: This collection, dated January 1944 to December 1946, documents two years in the life of Eric Theodore Carlson, an American graduate student studying chemistry who was drafted by the United States Army in 1944, and chosen to work for the Manhattan Read more…
Abstract: Eric Theodore Carlson was an American graduate student in the chemistry department at Iowa State College who was drafted by the United States Army in 1944, and chosen to work for the Manhattan Engineer District. He took part in classified research into atomic power which was utilized in the Read more…
For my first assignment for INFO256, I had the pleasure of interviewing Supriya Wronkiewicz, San Francisco Ballet Archivist and Project Archivist for the Museum of Performance + Design (MP+D). Supriya received her undergraduate degree in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and after graduation had her first experience Read more…
In this year of “can’t, shouldn’t and no” this class has replied with the rejoinders “both/and” and “yes, and” (thanks Rosa!). I grabbed a hold of these lifelines to pull myself towards the bright unknown. The chance to imagine the future as something more inclusive, honest, fulfilling, and emotional has Read more…
I made a little comic book that distills my main takeaways from this class. I hope you enjoy it; after a dense and often dark semester it felt good to make something light and fun (but hopefully still reflective of all of the things we have learned in this class). Read more…