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Archival Practicum: Week 2
Week 2 was when I really started to work on what the archivist and I had brainstormed as one of my projects for the practicum: the...

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Jan 142 min read
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Archival Practicum: Week 1
For my Archives and Special Collections certificate, I need to complete an Archival Practicum, which involves working with an archive...

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Jan 62 min read
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Preservation in action! Part 2
The second item I worked to preserve for my LIS 649 Final Project was an old book I picked up about 12 years ago, Songs of Lake Geneva...

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Jul 27, 20245 min read
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Preservation in action! Part 1
A major aspect of archives is preservation and conservation. In order to keep materials available for future use, we need to be both...

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Jul 26, 20243 min read
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Let's talk about that data, Metadata
A large part of digitization is the information that goes along with the digital scans. We can't simply take a photo and say the archival...

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Dec 1, 20232 min read
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Spooky Archive Tour!
Let's take a break from digitization and touch on some of the other great things about working in a public library archive. While I stay...

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Nov 30, 20232 min read
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FADGI Struggles
We're going to get a little technical with this post and talk about digitization standards for archives. The two main goals of archival...

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Nov 29, 20232 min read
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Simply taking new photos of old photos
Copy stand photography is quickly becoming one of the most commonly used forms of digitization across libraries, archives, museums, and...

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Nov 27, 20232 min read
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