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    Career advice from our Preservation Coordinator

    • Date: May 1, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: This is post is part of our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professional. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Smithsonian Institution Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Don’t be afraid to let us know who you might like to hear from next!What is preservation? This is a

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    A Look into NCFA Exhibition Posters

    • Date: October 24, 2017
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has undergone many name changes over the years. One of these – the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) – was in use from 1937 to 1980. During this time, the NCFA underwent several exciting changes. After years of being housed in multiple locations and several failed attempts to build a permanent building, the collection moved to

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    What a Groovy Idea! A Pan-Institutional Survey of Audiovisual Collections

    • Date: April 21, 2016
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: In celebration of Preservation Week 2016, here’s a brief overview of surveys and their role in preservation, as well as a look into an audiovisual survey currently taking place right here at the Smithsonian.

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  7. Wishing you a Trivial New Year!

    • Date: January 4, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Happy National Trivia Day! January 4th is the perfect day to break out all those endless bits of knowledge stored in your noggin and share them with others. As for the history of National Trivia Day, it's thought that the creation of the game Trivial Pursuit in 1979 sparked the beginning of our fascination with trivia, and everythinge else is history, as they say. To feed our

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    Miscellaneous Adventures into Standard Forms at the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 5, 2017
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: For the next installment of “Miscellaneous Adventures,” we’ve taken a dive into blank standardized forms once used at the Smithsonian, found in Record Unit 65, Smithsonian Institution Chief Clerk, Forms, Circulars, Announcements, 1846-1933, Box 14, Folder Miscellaneous Forms – Assorted. And these forms are certainly assorted! The contents range from memorandum forms to

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    A New Solution for an Old Scrapbook

    • Date: November 14, 2017
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: The Archives recently received several scrapbooks created by Elizabeth C. Reed during her husband's tenure as Director of the National Zoological Park (NZP). These scrapbooks contain information about noteworthy events and consist mostly of newspaper clippings gathered from newspapers around the country. Anyone who's attempted to preserve scrapbooks can tell you it's a bit of

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  13. Revisiting the Magnificent Enterprise

    • Date: March 20, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month, we’d like to revisit an important and inspiring exhibition circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in 1961. “The Magnificient Enterprise: Education Opens the Door” was a photographic exhibition based on the 100 years of higher education for women. Sponsored by Vassar College in observance of its

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    I.D. This! Solid Ink Inkjet Print

    • Date: June 18, 2019
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Material and process identification is the key to a robust preservation strategy!

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    Pennywise Preservation: Oversized Prints and Drawings

    • Date: December 13, 2016
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Providing suitable housing for collections can sometimes be cost-prohibitive. When the Archives received a large collection of oversized drawings, a cost-savings approach had to be employed while still achieving an appropriate housing strategy for long-term preservation.

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    Quick Tips for Preserving Your Family’s Past

    • Date: November 26, 2019
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: As the holiday season approaches, here are a few quick tips on some preservation strategies for your family’s treasures.

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