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      What Does a Photograph Archivist Do?

      • Date: April 7, 2010
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Photo shoebox upset, by Stephen Cummings, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I recently took a position as photograph archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and hope to be able to share through this blog some of the processes we are undertaking to make our photographic collections more useful and

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      Reflections on Women's History Month

      • Date: May 7, 2009
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: Throughout March, archivists from the Smithsonian Institution Archives archivists blogged about the women scientists in the Science Service Records (1902-1965). Here is a reflection on their experience.

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    5. SI History Chronology

      S. T. Suratt Appointed Smithsonian Archivist

      • Date: Fall 1965

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    7. The Archives Staff Kept Austin Weird at SAA 2019

      • Date: August 20, 2019
      • Description: This summer, members of the Archives staff packed their bags and headed to the 2019 Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) and Society of American Archivists (SAA). When they returned, they refected om the most useful sessions and what topics they're looking for in the future.

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    9. Hold on Loosely

      • Date: May 28, 2019
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: Whether we love to hate them, or hate to love them, paper clips are a huge part of working in archives. In an attempt to showcase this little contraption, we did a call out to the twitterverse for other archivists to share their collection of paper clips. Needless to say, it was not a disappointment. Now go forth archivists! And remember Clippy will always be there to

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      Some Digital Archivist Career Advice

      • Date: March 1, 2018
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: This is the second post in our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professional. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Check out the first , and don’t be afraid to let us know who you might like to hear from next! Many picture an archivist

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      How do I become an Archivist?

      • Date: April 26, 2012
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Thinking Outside the Smithsonian Institution Archives

      • Date: July 2, 2019
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: There are many smaller archival conferences to learn about new tools and projects.

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    17. New Orleans Street Parade

      • Date: December 12, 2017
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Every year at its annual conference, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) hosts an event called Archival Screening Night (ASN). ASN is a chance for moving image archivists around the world to showcase films and videos from their collections, particularly items that have recently been preserved, restored, or remastered.This film depicts the Onward Brass Band

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    19. Link Love: 12/9/2016

      • Date: December 9, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: An Archivists' call-to-action, in song, from the Society of American Archivists, and Garrison Keeler. A new exhibit from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum examines clothing waste. [via Hyperallergic]The first curator of Media and Performance Art, Mark Beasely, was appointed at the Hirshhorn. [via Artnet]A new book is out about the team of Harvard female "computers"

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      What Does an Electronic Records Archivist Do?

      • Date: August 10, 2010
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Do you still work with 3.5-inch diskettes? How about 5.25-inch floppy disks and Zip disks? I do. As an electronic records archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I spend most of my time working with digital information to help ensure it will be accessible in 5, 25, or even 100 years from now. Born-digital materials arrive at the archives in a variety of ways (CDs,

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      An Accidental Archivist...

      • Date: July 15, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: I was reading one of Holland Cotter’s reviews of an art exhibition in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago, when I came across a description of a show that was about to close and wished I’d been able to see. At a space run by the Esopus Foundation, Bob Warner, a New York artist and optician, was opening, one box at a time, the cartons of material that another artist, Ray

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