Our visit to the Special Collections Research Center at Temple University was exciting. I had no idea SCRC had so much material, nor did I know how new the building was. We were told that SCRC holds around 90,000 feet of material between two locations, and we saw only a third of the material. 90,000 …
Monthly Archives: September 2023
Week 4:
One of the topics in class this week that I thought was interesting and wanted to reflect on is how to get people engaged and working with primary materials. In class, we saw an example of primary documents shared with educators with response questions for students to answer. Margery pointed out how using these objects …
Week 3:
One of the issues we discussed in class that I’ve enjoyed thinking about is the article, “More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Archives Processing” by Mark A. Greene and Dennis Meissner. We also discussed how archives typically have a backlog of material and insufficient funds. My original thoughts after reading this article and discussion in …
Blog 2 Archives and Manuscripts:
An interesting question was posed in the reading and in class, who controls the past? I have to side with the archivists here. When it comes to the collections and materials they are working with, they have to be allowed to decide what happens with these materials. For example, if they decided to get rid …
Archives and Manuscripts Week 1:
While reading the article, “ No One Owes Their Trauma to Archivists, or, the Commodification of Contemporaneous Collecting” by Eira Tansey I continued to reflect on my own work and question if I am practicing what is argued in this article. Tansey challenges archivists collecting trauma, and one specific point I’d like to reflect on …