Featuring profiles of outreach & advocacy in cultural heritage
by Jenny DeRocher
La Crosse, Wisconsin is a city of about 50,000 people. It sits between tree-covered bluffs and the winding Mississippi River. The city’s downtown area is like many other industrial Mississippi River towns with traces of train tracks, …
Dear Archives Unboxed readers!by Constance Hyder
Margaret Grant Cherin is the Collections and Exhibitions Curator at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, an early college in Great Barrington, MA. After studying Art History at Smith College, Margaret continued her studies at the Courtauld …
by Victoria Jackson
In a world full of constant content generation, how can library and information science professionals convince their communities, their institutions, and the world at large of their importance? It is a question of growing importance within the …
by Emily Magagnosc
Sara Davis is the Digital Project Manager for the Olmsted Archives at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site. As the Site is part of the National Park Service, outreach and public programming is essential and …
Get ready! Starting on Monday, October 9, we will be launching our Professional Profile Series. Each profile will feature an archivists or cultural heritage professional working in innovative and impactful ways to connect communities to collections. Stay tuned for some …
Archives Unboxed is hosted by the fine folks at Simmons College School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), and features profiles of outreach and advocacy work in the broad field of cultural heritage. Blog content is contributed by students in …