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MEDAL Pre-conference Symposium
Announcement from Casey Westerman, Metro Detroit Archivists League (MEDAL): I’m pleased to announce a pre-conference symposium, organized by the Metro Detroit Archivists League, to be held at the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs on July 30, 2014. … Continue reading
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Museum Archives E-Records Symposium at SAA14
The Society of American Archivists Museum Archives Section Standards and Best Practices Working Group is holding a half-day symposium on museum archives and electronic records at this year’s SAA Annual Meeting. The symposium will feature three case studies, five lightning … Continue reading
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MEDAL Meeting. Tuesday, December 10th.
Announcement of the next meeting of the Metro Detroit Archivists League from our esteemed leader Casey Westerman: “Friends! Colleagues! Bronze, silver, and gold MEDALists! We’ve reached a rough consensus that the next meeting of our dubiously professional organization ought to … Continue reading
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Speaking of SAA 2013…
During SAA 2013 I had the pleasure of participating as a speaker in Session 109, “Pushing the Envelope: Using Object Collections Management Systems to Catalogue Archives”. Many thanks to my fellow panelists Carol Bartels, Mary Hope and Barbara Mathe, our … Continue reading
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Archives on Tumblr
Last Update: 10June2012 Urban Archives (Temple University Libraries) http://urbanarchives.tumblr.com/ National Archives (Today’s Document) http://todaysdocument.tumblr.com/ Charles Sumner School Museum & Archives http://sumnerschool.tumblr.com/ I Found It in the National Archives http://usnatarchivesfoundit.tumblr.com/ US National Archives Exhibits http://usnatarchivesexhibits.tumblr.com/ The Lively Morgue (The New York … Continue reading
On Display.
I’ve posted quite a bit about digitization process and rapid capture, both here and elsewhere, but not so much about how the images created in these processes are used. The recently opened Driving America exhibit provides an opportunity to describe … Continue reading
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Assembly Line.
My piece on Rapid Capture has been posted to The Henry Ford blog: Building a Highland Park plant for the digital age. – Brian
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iTunes and me…and my brother.
OCLC has posted to iTunes, as a podcast, the Rapid Capture webinar in which I participated as a panel member. Pretty cool, right? One of those unexpected things that makes this new career so enjoyable. As a bonus, I’ve also … Continue reading
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Description Win
It is the season for giving! Our description is now being crawled and indexed by ArchiveGrid and is available for search and display here. This supplements our current OPAC hosted by DALNET and allows for full text search across our … Continue reading
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MCN2011
This week I’m attending the Museum Computer Network conference, MCN2011, in Atlanta (http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2011-atlanta). I’ve found a number of good ideas in the trove of presentations from past conferences, so this year I decided to find out what’s happening in person. … Continue reading
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