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MEDAL Meeting. Tuesday, December 10th.

Posted on December 2, 2013 by admin

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…

Posted on August 22, 2013 by admin

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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Assembly Line.

Posted on February 13, 2012 by admin

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.

Posted on November 28, 2011 by admin

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

Posted on November 28, 2011 by admin

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

Posted on November 17, 2011 by admin

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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SAA 2011 Research Forum

Posted on September 6, 2011 by admin

I had the pleasure to participate in the SAA 2011 Research Forum poster session, held this past August 23rd. My poster, “Application of Rapid Imaging Methods in a Library-Archive-Museum Environment”, outlined the work I’ve been doing over the last year … Continue reading →

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Putting the Assembly Line into Production

Posted on June 15, 2011 by admin

Wow! Has it been over six months since I last posted? Pretty bad. An update is definitely in order… With my early November presentation proving to be a resounding success, I was able to spec and order equipment around the … Continue reading →

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How Henry Ford might have digitized….

Posted on November 7, 2010 by admin

On Tuesday I gave a presentation to management on Rapid Capture digitization. I’m recommending we adopt Rapid Capture to make headway on the 180,000 items that have been identified to be completed in the first 24 months of our digitization … Continue reading →

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The Opener

Posted on October 2, 2010 by admin

Welcome all to my new blog! Now that I’m gainfully employed as an archivist I figured I would give the blogging thing another shot. My previous attempt to document my experiences in returning to grad school wasn’t all that successful. … Continue reading →

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