Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: Several SIA Archivists participated in the 2012 Society of American Archivists confernence, discussing such topics as archiving websites, Encoded Archival Context (EAD) and the Fieldbook Project.
Description: [embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbnJo88kuP8&feature=related[/embed] You may have noticed a few changes on the blog lately (and then again, maybe you haven't). Either way, we wanted to update you on some new additions to THE BIGGER PICTURE. The big change that we've made is to our blog categories—some of our old categories remain, but we’ve also added new ones.
Description: A couple of months ago, Tony Cohn, host of Smithsonian’s Sidedoor podcast, contacted the Archives about an upcoming episode they were preparing. Sidedoor highlights the unseen or little-known stories about collections at the Smithsonian. The Archives’ work was recently front-and-center of an episode of The Sidedoor Podcast about America’s first food spy.
Description: The Smithsonian’s Field Book Project is a continuous fount of work for both our digitization crew here at the Archives and for me as the conservator in charge of the project’s physical needs. Over the past several weeks I have worked on a variety of field books with different structures and treatment requirements, and will share a few of the most common features I’ve seen in
Description: Dear Reader,We greet you today with a tale that tolls for thee.Even in the most modern of archives, some spooky things lurk right under our noses. Enjoy a poem that sings their praises…or does it?
Description: In their efforts to document the history of computing at the Smithsonian, volunteers are interviewing former staff to preserve their stories and experiences. Ching-hsien Wang was a force that helped libraries and archives make their collections accessible online and here are some early excerpts from our interview with her.