This session featured Ann Wakefield of the New Orleans Notarial Archives, Lee Hampton of the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and Hank Holmes of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The trio described their experiences dealing with the aftermath of last year?s… Read the rest
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Original Aladdin Lunchbox Art
As part of the SAA 2006 reception at the National Museum of American History, the museum’s archives showed off some of its treasures. One of the coolest: these original paintings of the art destined to go on school lunchboxes manufactured by Aladdin Industries.… Read the rest
Possibilities and Problems of Digital Hi...
As a history student, I found this to be an utterly fascinating session. It was led by Roy Rosenzweig and Dan Cohen, both of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The two presenters are co-authors of Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past on the Web.… Read the rest
Designing an Open-Source and Standards-C...
Despite all the verbiage in the name, this was one of the best sessions I attended at the SAA conference, because it focused so clearly on a real need in the profession and offered a tangible and practical solution. The session centered on Archon a brand new software project that has just been released by Chris Prom, Scott Schwartz, and Chris Richel at UIUC.… Read the rest
Archivists in the Movies
Leith Johnson, co-curator of the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives, rounded out Thursday at SAA with a lighthearted look at how archives and archivists have been portrayed in film. There were audible gasps throughout the room whenever a character would do something that was not strictly archivally correct.… Read the rest
2400 pages per hour? No sweat!
This BookScan system was being demonstrated by Kirtas Technologies. I had never seen one of these in action before. It’s quite hypnotic — a robot basically pages through the book while two SLR digital cameras capture high resolution images of two pages at a time.… Read the rest