Archival Issues
Last permanent name
The name of this blog, "Last Temporary Name," was a play on the fact that I could never decide on what to name this blog. It didn't help that I didn't have a focus for the blog, so a title wouldn't really
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Under construction
As you may be able to tell, my blog theme now looks very very basic. Well, for all intents and purposes, it doesn't have a theme right now. I'm a compulsive tinkerer, and so I've decided that I'm not happy with any
Archival Issues
More Product, Less Process
I was in my Preservation class last week, and we were talking about conservation; we had just visited the Preservation lab in Davis Library, and had talked about how to conserve general library materials. When we returned to the classroom, we started talking about conservation issues. We started talking about
archival anxiety
Archival anxiety
Jennor - Oct 2, 2009 Yay Thesis! I'm allegedly writing mine. So far I have 1 page out of 50 done. Ha. I miss you-chre.
Archival Issues
Refocusing
Unsurprisingly, I'm going to refocus this blog on archival issues. I've just been named an intern for the Reference, Access, and Outreach Section of the Society of American Archivists, and my primary job is to blog for them. I only have to write two blog posts
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First step for my master's paper
So I'm starting the grand push towards creating/writing my master's paper. What I want to do is to create a web tutorial for how to use the new finding aids in Wilson Library. Davis Library, the main academic library on campus, has a set of
brewing tea
Brewing Tea
Brewing Tea · China Best Tea - Aug 1, 2009 [...] View original post here: Brewing Tea [...]
Archival Issues
Researcher/archivist confidentiality
-From the Society of American Archivists Code of Ethics. I apologize for the generalities in which this post is written, but I don't want to cause more of a ruckus than has already occurred. This is the story as far as I know it. A researcher was using
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Crowdsurfing
Crowdsurfing, to me, is the most selfish thing someone can do at a concert. You are making a lot of people, who are there to enjoy the music, hold you up while you float on top of a sea of bodies. You're ruining the experience of the people
appalachia
Education, the American South, and Strangers with Cameras
[Note: This post was crossposted from my Daily Kos account. Its similar to an earlier post I did, called Stranger With A Camera, but has a more political bent than the anthropological bent of the first post.] Recently, there has been a lot of talk of how the Republicans have
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I-40 craziness in Greensboro
I'm a transit nerd. I like learning about roads, bridges, highways, trains, neighborhoods, and all sorts of elements of history of cities. In Greensboro, there is a part of I-40 that is just ridiculous. I-40, along with I-85, used to go through downtown Greensboro, through a section that
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Movie filming in my apartment
Over the weekend my friend Josh Clayton filmed some shots for his movie "The Virgins" in my apartment. I took some pictures of the filming process. Here's Josh and his director of photography, Aravind, setting up for a shot in the living room. Here's