by Natalie Kelsey
Some of my earliest cultural heritage-related memories are of the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY. My father, an artist himself, brought me there as often as I wanted. The first piece I remember is …
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Condolence Mail Project
by Jennifer Skarbek
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library houses over 400 collections surrounding the Kennedy administration from 1961-1963. While there are a large number of collections of governmental records, there are several lesser known collections of correspondence from the …
Curator’s Corner at the British Museum
by Michelle Slater
The British Museum is a world renowned institution known for its rich history of collecting antiquities and priceless works of art from around the world. The Museum is open year-round for free to visitors in London, but …
The Digital Prison Archive: An Outreach Project for the Prison Public Memory Project
by Thera Webb
The Digital Prison Archive is an outreach project for the Prison Public Memory Project, an organization that currently focuses on collecting and archiving stories and experiences from people connected to the three prisons in Hudson New York …
La Puerta Opens the Door to San Antonio’s History
by Caroline Tanski
On May 1st, 1718, the Mission San Antonio de Valero (which would come to be known as the Alamo) was founded, and along with it the city of San Antonio, Texas. While activities will culminate …
The Archives Hashtag Party
by Rebecca Sasseville
There’s no avoiding the power of social media for a cultural heritage institution. It’s free and easy to use for accounts and followers alike. Social media is used by all walks a life, everywhere in the world. …
Coming soon…..
Dear readers,
Beginning this week, we’ll be introducing a series of new posts for the blog. Simmons SLIS 476 students have been been profiling cultural heritage outreach and advocacy projects.
Stay tuned to learn about the Franklin Library’s Concierge Program,
… Meet Felicia Williamson, Archivist at the Dallas Holocaust Museum
by Caroline Tanski
As the story often goes, Felicia Williamson didn’t intend to be an archivist. She studied German and European history and pursued historical research through a Fulbright scholarship in Austria. She took a student job in circulation at …
Meet Spencer Keralis, Director for Digital Scholarship at the University of North Texas
by Ayoola White
Spencer Keralis is in love with metadata. He blogs, he emails, he evangelizes his department to a variety of academic disciplines at his university. He is the Head of the Digital Humanities and Collaborative Programs Unit at …
Meet Caitlin Birch, Digital Collections and Oral History Archivist at Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College
by Elena Hoffenberg
Caitlin Birch combines her academic training as a historian and professional archival expertise in digital forms as the Digital Collections and Oral History Archivist at Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College. Birch completed her MLIS and …