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      Some Archives Technologist Career Advice

      • Date: May 24, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: This is the latest post in our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professionals. 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 our previous posts, and don’t be afraid to let us know who you would like to hear from next!The Archives has

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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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      We've Got Mail?

      • Date: January 11, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Right after Thanksgiving, on a promotional tour stop for his post-presidential memoir, Decision Points, George W. Bush visited Palo Alto, California to chat with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. According to a CBS News report, Mr. Bush mentioned that while he has more than 600,000 Facebook "friends," and now uses a Blackberry and iPad, during his presidency, he didn’t make much

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      The History of Email at the Smithsonian

      • Date: July 21, 2015
      • Description: Many of us read, write and send emails every day, but when did it all start at the Smithsonian? In 1980 Smithsonian staff had typewriters and telephones on their desk, with one or two FAX machines per office. The Smithsonian operated a single general purpose computer, the Honeywell mainframe, for all Smithsonian data processing applications and which did not include an email

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Anna Brooke

      • Date: June 23, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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      The Search Server is Dead, Long Live the Search Server.

      • Date: April 30, 2019
      • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
      • Description: The Archives says goodbye to one search server while welcoming in a new one.

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      Maintaining Your Digital Presence Is More Than Updating Your Status

      • Date: January 29, 2015
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: There are a few ways to capture your information that you are posting on social media accounts.

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    15. This is the AV equipment that we have here at the Archives which we make available to other units who may need it.

      The Power of Collaboration

      • Date: October 21, 2014
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Audiovisual archivists come together at the annual meeting of the Association of Moving Image Archivists to create tools for audiovisual conservation.

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      It Takes a Village

      • Date: October 13, 2010
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Sometimes a single picture or new piece of information can open a window to a whole new perspective. In my case, it was a couple of sentences—spoken at a recent presentation at the Best Practices Exchange 2010 conference in Phoenix, Arizona—that turned out to be revelatory. The conference was a gathering of archivists, librarians, record managers, and digital curators whose

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      #MCN50 Conference Next Week

      • Date: November 7, 2017
      • Creator: Charles Zange
      • Description: Behind the archivists, technicians, and specialists of the museum field are an abundance of organizations that network ideas, connect professionals, and present new strategies to broaden the impact of museums (American Alliance of Museums, Society of American Archivists, etc.). Many associations focus on specific aspects of this dynamic field and help to push museum practice

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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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    23. Kira Sobers works on an audio reel-to-reel tape recorder. It has two tape wheels and many buttons.

      What Our Experts Want You to Know About Digitization

      • Date: May 19, 2020
      • Description: Our digitization experts answer questions about the complicated and time-consuming process of digitizing our collections.

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