Archive Essays

The Maine State Archives is a very interesting and intriguing database. It has around 95 million records of state documents that are kept because of their value to the history of the state. The archives is a bureau within the Department of the Secretary of State and includes mostly government paperwork and records. These records include bills introduced the the Legislature, election results, military records dating back to World War I, census records, as well as many other informative pieces of information

INTRODUCTION The three articles covered in this paper discuss how an archivist (and indeed the archives field in general) should deal with the challenges surrounding records of human rights violations and social justice issues. LITERATURE REVIEW Wood et al.'s article, “Mobilizing records: re-framing archival description to support human rights”, focuses on how archives can (and should) modify their item descriptions in order to best serve human rights efforts and those who have been involved

At Grinnell College, in the basement of the four-story Burling Library, lies the Special Collections and Archives. Within this cold room, many interesting books, pictures, and objects are found, but what makes them so ‘special’? There are requirements that the objects must meet in order to be considered part of the archives, but sometimes there is much more to them than just a checklist. A particularly special book to many is the 1896 collection of Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems called, The Works of Geoffrey

This included taking classes with subjects such as archives and records management, research methods, digital curation, cataloging, and metadata. I also enrolled in a grant writing class where I interacted with community institutions to create a mock grant aimed at promoting library services. In addition

In the journal by Bernard R. Boxill, "Frederick Douglass's Patriotism," Boxill guides readers through the transformation of Frederick Douglass from a man possessing no patriotism or country, to a man staking his position as a patriot within a country. Throughout the text, he presents the internal and external conflicts Frederick Douglass faces, "from claiming that he had no country... and gone on to claim that he had a country... claiming that he was not a patriot... to claim that he was a patriot

Alka Pal Intro to Ethics Instructor- Dr. Mark Journal- 2 (Moral Relativism) February 19, 2018 Ethical Relativism, what is right and wrong in overall opinion among the morality? It differs from religion, cultures, tradition, and societies viewpoint. relativist means belief, idea, proposition, claim, etc. and it’s never good, or bad, true, or false, or right or wrong. At whatever rate, moral relativism might imply that our morals have reformed, that they have changed over time, and that they are

4. My collection development teacher keeps talking about the journal “RQ”, but the library doesn’t have a current subscription. Where can I find it? (3) I assumed the question referred to the physical copy subscription to this publication, but just to be sure I wanted to verify that there was not, in fact, a physical copy in the catalog. I searched the UT OPAC to find that it had been moved into storage, and that we do not have a current copy or subscription. Our online subscription ends in 1997

04/13/2023 MLIS 688 Professor Colin Post Preservation Policy Analysis. The University of Washington is home to 14 different academic libraries and various other special collections and archives. The University presents a singular preservation policy that applies to all of the libraries and special collections and archives. This policy is succinct and is fairly effective in its efforts, but there is still plenty of room for improvement. The University of Washington's Preservation Policy aligns well

ionship are clearly those ideas which no doubt emerged from the very soil of American land but now transcend international boundaries. Although many critics have brought forth gender specific responses to the play, the theme that may transcend all social, political and economic boundaries is one of empowerment of an individual to take control of her own destiny. Jessie’s new found power, confidence and determination is evident in a particularly revealing scene when she responds to Thelma’s appeal

The primary source that can be accessed from the link above is the Procedural History of the 1940 Census of Population and Housing, written by Robert Jenkins. It is a lengthy and thorough depiction of the development and history of the U.S. Census Bureau, starting with the 1930s. IT talks about many things, but one of the most prevalent things that it covers is the information that was to be collected from the American people for each census. Since there was so much material in this book, it was

Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, many cultural groups flourished but among the most popular were the French Jesuits, French traders, and the Native American tribe know as the Savages. They all started off doing their own thing on their own land but when curiosity arose and it was time to move, bumping into other groups was inevitable. There were both friendly and hostile relationships between these groups. It was all based on the time, place, and how the groups met. Even groups of the same

While volunteering at Westminster Archives I was involved with a project conserving and cataloguing a collection of lantern slides. I joined the project midway through, and my first task was to check the lantern slides against the image library card catalogue to see if any were duplicates of images already held in the collection. This was an early lesson in the realities of archive acquisition! My next task was to catalogue the lantern slides onto CALM. As I was working with images, which had varying

Black Archives Reflection Touring the Black Archives at the university was an enlightening and insightful experience. I got to fulling comprehend the depth of the impact this university has had on the black community and how it has aided to our progression as a people through the decades. It was shocking to find out that parts of the land this university was founded on, used to be a slave plantation. Duval Hall, where the Black Archives building currently presides, originally was a mansion owned

chose to use the Grateful Dead Archive. It is a extensive online archive featuring over forty-five thousand digital pieces relating to the band. With this archive, the user can access images, papers, recordings, and other memorabilia related to the Grateful Dead. It is an archive that is user generated, meaning that the contributors are people with items that they want to share and will upload images, copies, or audio recordings onto the site. To begin, the archive is set up in a user-friendly

2.4 Public life The final stories of the collection, consisting of “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” “A Mother” and “Grace” each depict a condition of Irish society – politics, culture and religion. They view the drabness of Irish society. “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” displays Joyce’s attitude towards politics, with the main character of having autobiographical features and indirectly representing Joyce’s loss of political ideals. He views the characters in these stories to only have one desire

offices have had to endure sexual comments”. (The Readers Companion to U.S. Women’s History) They also state, “As students, women and girls have been sexual prey to teachers for as long as they have been allowed to be educated.” In Tamar Lewin’s Archive of Bussines: Sexual Harassment in The Workplace its stated that there is legally two types of sexual harassment: One is the straightforward ''quid pro quo,'' in which a supervisor promises some

mainly took the use of police and legal records to uncover the unheard voices of everyday people during and after the French Revolution. In this novella The Allure of the Archives written by Arlene Farge Arlette, she explores the archives in the French National Archives, the Library of the Arsenal and the National Library. These archives were taken from eighteen century, France, the missing key and some type of evidence which will later shed some light in her research. Like any great historian Farge captures

"the Picasso of comedy and considers him to be the heart and soul of comedy." This archive was created by Scott Saul the editor and publisher of Richard Pryor 's Peoria compiled information from his biography called Becoming Richard Pryor. The archive is a jump into societies technological norms, a challenge to expose the work of a biography for the digital age. This rhetorical analysis of Richard Pryor 's Peoria archive is important because it preserves artifacts, or in many instances, the visual pieces

Examining Slavery in the Americas through the Lens of the Archives By June Meehan Scholars examine archives to understand the impact that each record or account had on slavery in the Americas. Ideas about gender, labor, and race were majorly influenced by the records documented that focus on African and indigenous women and the experiences of slavery. Reports on these topics tended to socially reproduce the ideas of the racial and gender inferiority of enslaved people, specifically women of color

Brett Brosky (he/him) HST 312 African American Women / Dr. Harris Ashley D. Farmer, “In Search of the Black Women’s History Archives,” Modern American History (2018), 1-5. In Ashley Farmer’s “In Search of the Black Women’s History Archives,” she explores the field of evidence with the lens of Black women especially in America. The ways and methods in which people study these documents have changed over time and continue to evolve as this field has been often overlooked with regards to the group of