March 2012
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Daisie M. Helyar, 1906-1910 Scrapbook →
Daisie Miller Helyar’s scrapbook has been digitized as part of the ongoing Notable Women of Simmons digital scrapbook project, which offers access to unique historical artifacts documenting the lives of women who attended Simmons College. Daisie’s scrapbook contains evidence of an intelligent, good-humored, and adventurous young woman who both seized the opportunity for a college...
February 2012
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Phyllis Frye: Grandmother of the Trans Community →
In Houston, we trace our community back to Phyllis. On the international scene, we trace our legal protections and back to Phyllis. Whether you want to talk about trans healthcare, national trans policy or the very notion of “community” – we can’t have that discussion about that without Phyllis.
Today we get really worked up if someone uses a word like “tranny” while endlessly debating whether...
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Save the Date for the first Shakur Conference, at... →
The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library and the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation (TASF) present the first annual Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: “Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination.”
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To commemorate the opening of the historic collection, this two-day academic conference will convene scholars, educators, and students to...
Archaeological News: Privatizing Albanian Castles... →
archaeologicalnews:
Illyrian and medieval castles in Albania could be soon turned into bars and restaurants according to a government plant to lease cultural monuments to local businessmen.
According to the plan unveiled in late January by the head of Albania’s Institute of Monuments, Apollon Bace, some 40 monuments…
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Opportunity: RMBS Preconference Scholarship →
In partnership with the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of ACRL is offering scholarships to subsidize first-time preconference attendance by professional librarians and qualified paraprofessionals and students.
The Preconference is in San Diego, June 19-22.
Kill Screen: A new archive hopes to not only... →
killscreendaily:
A lot of press has been given to the steadily increasing growth in the archival presence of videogames and they begin to enter the phase in their history where people realize that they actually deserve a physical history. Now curators at the British Library have taken a new path: creating a…
The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia
nathanenglander:
Mark Shaver for The Chronicle Review
For the past 10 years I’ve immersed myself in the details of one of the most famous events in American labor history, the Haymarket riot and trial of 1886. Along the way I’ve written two books and a couple of articles about the episode. In some circles that affords me a presumption of expertise on the subject. Not, however, on...
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Anonymous asked: Hi! It'd be great if you linked to the actual archive, not just a post. The joy of archives is to make your own context...
Did you know... We have e.e. cumming's valentines... →
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Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites →
The post is tailored to museum sites, but I’m working on a domain for myself at the moment and should keep these things in mind.
A lot of the sites I built in high school can not be viewed on current gen browsers anymore. They exploit too many loopholes that have since been closed up.
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I Can’t Believe You’re Throwing Out Books! →
missrumphiusproject:
“Realizing that people object so strongly to throwing out books, I began to save a few of the most egregious examples to show people who got upset. The library owned a book entitled Careers for Women that included secretary, piano teacher and flight attendant, but strangely enough, not public school teacher, let alone financial analyst specializing in mergers and...
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Needs More Naked (Mmm… Marginalia #91) →
This is the most hilarious blog on medieval manuscripts I have ever read.
I know I probably come off like some sort of pervazoid,* what with all the naked snail-riding,**tree-nesting genitalia, and the rest of the medieval porn lying around the place.*** But it’s hardly my fault. I start an innocent line of research, and there it is, staring me in the face. Like tonight, I was working on a post...
