A celebration of archives, archival material, and the amazing history that they protect. Expect to see a lot of strange historical finds, unique materials, and archives in the news. I throw up 5 posts a day.

Posts Tagged: library school

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.

via Derangement and Description

via Derangement and Description

Source: derangementanddescription.wordpress.com

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You Ought to be Ashamed  is a blog dedicated to archival students and the market we will be dealing with. They just came out with a series of posts on the value of an MLIS.

How to become an archivist in ten short years: take one.

In defense of the MLS (Sort of)

I suggest the whole blog, though it is a little depressing.

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Getting my butt into gear for next quarter. 

The classes on the plate are Government Docs, an Intro to Archives Class (hah!) and an independent study on identifying and repairing antiquarian books.