Archive And Archivist: What Is An Archive?

The Literate Arts can also be used has a kind of time capsule. The future needs to know how the past was and what better way than through our literature. Our literature allows the future to know how we communicated, acted, what we believed in, our doubts, our successes and our failures. We could not make progress today without examining our past. Being an Architecture student, I have read a lot of architecture related literature, texts and journals from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s and so on. It was clear one led to another meaning the future looked to the past to learn from their mistakes and build on their successes. Our literature can give access to our soul so the world of the future can know how we thought and why we thought like that. Miller wrote about the book ‘The Information’ by Martin Amis in his text, The Dark Night of the Soul, and showed how Amis believed that this point of literature being important

Many do not know that the IMA houses two different libraries. The Stout Reference Library and the Horticultural Society Library provide numerous resources for their visitors, which mainly consist of students, IMA Staff, docents, collectors, researchers and even members of the community. The Stout Reference Library “focuses on the encyclopedia collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, while also providing general information about art and art history of all periods.” (Stout Reference Library, 2017) The Horticultural Society Library “houses more than 2,000 volumes, including general reference books and books on landscaping, specific plant families and horticulture.” (Horticultural Society Library, 2017) I mention the libraries because this semester, I am technically considered a library and archives intern at the IMA. My mentor however is the archivist, Samantha Norling. She has done impressive work at the IMA in such a short time. She jump-started the Archives online portal, which consists of thousands of digitized items from the archives. The IMA received a “generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)” (Documenting Modern Living, 2017), that allowed for 17,000 items from the Miller House and Garden archival collection to be digitized.

Just like any library, ancient special libraries, also known as archives, where created to preserve and keep records of specific materials, such as business documents that were written on clay tablets at that time or papyrus scrolls that were about personal or business matters. At first, general libraries were mainly focused on providing educational materials for the adult population; however, libraries have gone through great transformations. Now-a-days, the libraries’ purpose has widened and now they focus on providing any needed information, educational or leisure materials to people of all ages and types of their communities (Rowland, Collection). Also, now public libraries have partnerships with school libraries and academic

I have to let the readers know how I stumbled upon this topic to introduce where I get my ideas from. It all started in the archive located on the second floor of the library in a dark corner behind a clear glass doors at the Hunter College. I have been attending Hunter College for four years and never have I stumbled on such an amazing place full of live history. I say live history because all the documents and books that are held in the archive are all preserved originals, which fascinated me. Thinking how people who lived more than century ago wrote and read the same things I’m writing and reading about excited me to my very soul. Archive research though fascinating is not an easy task that can be done in within fifteen minutes like how researches are done these days using convenient technologies at hand.

Mr. Williams gave me a tour of the facility. The repository is located on the fifth floor of a beautiful new building which is an addition to the library. It is a 140,000 square foot building with many new amenities for the students. The fifth floor also holds the library’s historical collections, a state of the art archival storage and also houses a special area for archival preservation. I was also able to take a look at the beautiful rare books collection, which are set up in glass door bookcases, inside a meeting room where

We view historical preservation as very important. This year we helped the Secretary of State with a biographical project, Legacy

The purpose of this essay is to analyse a chosen database in terms of its usefulness as a resource for local history research. The database which has been chosen for its usefulness as a resource for local history research is The Charles Booth Online Archive. To analyse The Charles Booth Online Archive, it will be necessary to briefly examine the accessibility of the archive, together with its functionality as a local history research tool. In addition, it will be vital to consider how the scope and organisation of the archive is structured and arranged. Finally, to demonstrate the archives usefulness as a local history research tool it will be crucial to undertake a case study to show how the archive can be utilised for a local history research

An archive is a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people. The current collection consists of assassination records, pictures, artifacts, and sound recordings.

“Working in the Archives: Practical Research Methods for Rhetoric and Composition” is a comprehensive guide for aspiring scholars to navigate research. In chapter --, Lyenee Lewis Gaillet addresses the need to instruct students how to use the research archives and recognize the philosophical assumptions that lie in the worldview of the researcher. Gaillet gives precautions concerning the interpretation of facts, which provoked reflections of my experience processessing artifacts. I took an internship opportunity in a small for-profit museum in Midway, Georgia, a rural town haunted with deep colonial and Civil War history. My primary task was to transcribe unprocessed documents from the museum’s archives.

What I have found surprising about my professional experience so far is how much I have come to enjoy conducting oral histories and working in an archival setting. While volunteering with the Los Alamos Historical Society, my mentor has given me the primary task of helping them complete their oral history project, which has been an ongoing project for the society for nearly a year and a half. The oral history project has provided me with a new perspective of the past. The other task that my mentor has given me is to help the historical society to catalog their archive’s artifacts. I was surprised while cataloging the archive’s artifacts the amount of photographs, videos, and many other historical objects that the historical society possesses. While the projects that my mentor has instructed me to work on while volunteering with the historical society has surprised me in several ways, I

7. Contact the Barclays National Records transport department to organise to collection of your archive boxes.

Preservation. It’s something that many people over the centuries have done to keep pieces of history intact so it won’t be forgotten. Sometimes it’s to let future generations know about how life was in their era, the good times or the struggles. Or sometimes it’s used in a fun way, such as a time capsule. Time capsules are a box type thing that you place in the ground, and when a certain number of years go by you can up it back up to reflect on the times that happened during the time the item was put inside. Others do this to have someone one day in the future find it to show how things were now. When I first heard about time capsules i wondered what I would put in that is something significant for me. Now I have picked something that is the twenty-first century's greatest invention, Flaming Hot Cheetos.

All documents on SharePoint must be archived to ensure accessibility of documents post EAM Program delivery and closure. The following RACI explains the Process and the responsibilities:

Collections play a crucial role in fulfilling a museum’s mission and purpose. A museum’s collection is defined by its collection policy past and present which in turn helps to shape the museum’s goals and direction. As stewards of collections, museums are expected to maintain the highest professional standards legally and ethically.

The library is a wonderful place to go to if you would like a quiet place to work. I like being at the library because it is filled with knowledge, and there are many different books that interest me. I enjoy going to the library because walking there clears my mind. Also, there are many books that are available for the public to read and it is a quiet place to do work.