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Here's Kenndall's post: My name is Kenndall Wallace and I’m a senior with a major in Broadcast & Cinematic arts and a double minor in Art and Art History. I’ve been working at the Clarke since January of 2022, and I’ve been incredibly grateful to have spent over three years working as a student assistant for film processing! As a student worker, I dealt primarily with archived news footage from Channel 9 & 10, a CBS station that serves the central Michigan area. As someone who’s always loved viewing film and photographs from the past, it has been a real treat to be able to see the passage of time through the archived film footage– viewing over a decade’s worth of film from the 1960’s–70’s as a worker at the Clarke.    As a student, however, I’ve primarily dabbled in storytelling! As a screenwriter, my debut screenplay placed third in the Broadcast Education Association’s Student Filmmaking Festival; and as a playwright, I am a six-time Kennedy Center American College...

                                                                  Natalie with CMU. Honors Here is a blog written by Natalie Armstrong. After finishing the CMU Honors Collection (10 cubic feet) right before the start of the term, I spent much of this school year processing the remaining boxes in the C.S. Bliss collection. The portion of the collection I processed contained mostly financial and business records, including camp orders, check stubs, and bank vouchers and statements. The collection is now fully processed and includes a total of  90 cubic feet of material.                                                                ...

 Forwarding this AASLH survey for archivists, curators, and any history practitioners. It took me less than 10 minutes to complete.  Our colleagues at the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) have launched the National Survey of History Practitioners , a major new effort to better understand who works at history organizations, how they are compensated, and how they feel about their work. If you are a staff member, contractor, or volunteer at a US history organization-such as an archives, museum, historic site, preservation organization, or similar institution-please take ten minutes to complete the survey. Your response will help AASLH and the field build stronger and more sustainable institutions. The survey is open through Friday, June 6 . www.surveymonkey.com/r/NSHP2025 Please consider sharing this survey with your networks to help ensure that all voices in the history community are heard.

  At the end of the term, I like to highlight my archives student processors. Here's Max, whose done a wonderful job processing and describing moving image film this year. I am Max Maksymowski, and I am a CMU Sophomore. I'm a Broadcasting and Cinema Arts Major and a Technical Theater Minor. I hope to work behind the camera on a television set, or to be a post-production professional. I was hired last year as a moving film archivist. I make sure that the film I work with, Channel 9 & 10 News raw film footage, is stable and able to be archived properly. I also watch the stabilized film (film that would not fall apart or degrade) on the film projector and describe what I see so that researchers can search for it and find it in the finding aid. This year I also processed and described non-news film in the Rupp collection. (See above image.) I was very excited to get my hands on different types of film. Outside of the Clarke, I was a sound designer for CMU's A Wrinkle in...

  [on behalf of the Meijer Heritage Center] Archivist, Meijer Heritage Center We are seeking a professional archivist for 30-35 hours/week to support collections processing and management, digitization, and management of digital asset management platform (DAM) internally called the FindIt! Resource Center. The role is a contract position administered through a contract agency. The highest needs in the Meijer Archives are collections processing or accessioning, digitization, and management of the digital asset management platform.  Collections processing/accessioning :  15 hours/week Digital Asset Management:   10 hours/week Digitization:   10 hours/week Job Summary: The Meijer Heritage Center (MHC) preserves and presents the rich cultural history, heritage, and legacy of Meijer, a Midwestern retail company. The Meijer Archives include assets from the early 20 th  century to the present and include paper documents, company records, photographs, video, memo...

My wonderful film student Max recently processed, described, and preserved three professionally created moving image films, a departure from the usual Channel 9&10 News films. The Rupp collection is mostly composed of paper- and photographic-based materials documenting Michigan history and tourism, Ernest Hemingway, and part of the Louise Obermiller papers concerning fights over Indigenous land rights, granted by treaties, in Northern Michigan. In the above image you see Max with the Rupp collection, including the three films in blue, archival film cannisters. The films include: "When Michigan was Young," 1964, 16 mm Black and White, optical soundtrack, polyester base, 1,000 ft. "My Old Man" [about Ernest Hemingway],1970,16 mm, Color, Optical Soundtrack, Polyester base, 450 ft. Hemingway-Heroes-DuPont Hemingway Act I Reel I [about Ernest Hemingway], 1961, 16 mm, Black and White, Optical Soundtrack, Polyester base, 1,800 ft. For more information please see the ca...