March 2012
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Living the history:Archivist makes NAACP papers... →
Aaisha Haykal sorted through boxes of decades-old historical NAACP papers dealing with the Confederate flag, education and police brutality.
Haykal, 24, an archivist and scholar working at the College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture is organizing the papers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and those of several...
What does an archivist do? →
February 2012
ofanotherfashion:
Maybe the most stylish librarian ever - check out that fascinator! Lucille Baldwin Brown was the first Black public county librarian in Tallahassee, Florida. This photograph is part of the collection at the State Library and Archives of Florida.
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“Libraries aren’t in the real world, after all. They’re places apart,...”
– Paul Auster
Watchpoplibrary:
“There is a scene from the first season of the television spy drama, Chuck, that takes place in a library. In the scene, our hero and unlikely spy, Chuck, has returned to his alma mater, Stanford, to find a book his former roommate, Bryce, also a spy, has hidden in the stacks as a clue. All Chuck has to go on is a call number scribbled on a scrap of paper.”
Nobody cares about...
“I am a librarian. I discovered ‘me’ in the library. I went to find ‘me’ in the...”
– Ray Bradbury (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
What does an archivist do? →
“‘A paper from 1994? I don’t know where you’d find one. We threw away our...”
– Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists (via themirroredarchive)
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Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites →
awesomearchives:
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.
