Winter cheer : the archival edition

Now that the first major snow storm of the season has descended, perhaps a little winter cheer is in order. But how do you convey that through an archive? Here’s a thought…featuring visually stunning archival exhibition announcements that Meyer Schapiro collected and that are now rehoused, processed, and described. Leave it to an archivist to […]

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Archival transfers and the resonance of ephemera

Archivists are very familiar with the transfer of archival material: from filing cabinet to box; box to truck; truck to repository; repository to archivist; archivist to process; process to description; and, finally, description to access. Electronic records follow the same general transfer, but, instead of a physical “filing cabinet,” there is the “file structure” of […]

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