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  The above are 1977 Channel 9&10 News mages of the CMU unit of WHIP, the Women's Health Information Project, a national organization. The CMU unit of WHIP, established in 1971. provided information, referrals, and confidential peer counseling for women in the areas of health and sexuality, including rape and self-help. WHIP did not provide birth control, recommending women see a proper health authority. 29 women and a man served as WHIP counselors in 1977, each with an area of specialty.  WHIP had an information resource center in the basement of the UC and an office in Health Services. In the Fall of 1976 WHIP offered 50 information sessions on health care and sexuality.  Jackie Kasouff, then a senior from Lansing, was one of the Project Coordinators in 1977. In March 1977 WHIP and the U Health Services co-sponsored the 4th annual health fair. 5,000 people attended. During the three days of the fair people's blood types were tested, they received eye and hearing tes...

 Film: The living memory. This is short, fun to watch and thought provoking. This is why preserving film is so important!  https://vimeo.com/604836613

Also from fall 1977 Channel 9 & 10 film are images of a meeting of the Clare County Sheriff Patrol officers and staff, including 2 female police officers, in Harrison, MI. All we have from the 9&10 film crew's notes is the date, October 26, 1977. The rest we gleaned from watching the film news footage. If you recognize anyone, please let me know and I'll add their names to the film description.  I love the Clare County Sheriff patrol vehicle (a Chevy blazer) still decorated with its 1976 bicentennial red, white, and blue patriotic ribbon trim. The colored, hard plastic chairs I remember from el and middle school. The windows behind the vehicle match the windows in one of the interior shots.  This is the sheriff. Behind him on the locker is a sign that reads "Keep Smiling."

 Here are a couple of fun 1977 Lake Superior State College images from 9&10 News footage during ground breaking for a new building. You should have seen the dirt flying once they got going! You can see some of it airborne in the top image. This crew was determine to dig a big hole, not just pose for a few pics. LSS people are real doers, that's for sure. 

Katie Higley is my film processing student and a McNair Scholar. I'm really proud of her. It is already clear that she is a mover and shaker in the field. While processing Channel 9&10 News Film in the Clarke, she became interested in which museums have films and what, if anything, they do with the films for public programming, such as featuring them in exhibits.  With little written on the topic, she decided to explore the topic. With our mentoring, she created a survey, analyzed, and reported the results. I encourage my interns and students to write in MAA newsletters and deliver poster presentations at conferences, especially now with many online the cost and time necessary is minimal. Katie has done this and is also aiming for a publication in a professional academic journal. Without a Ph.D. I can't be one of her official mentors for the project, like professors Brit Fremion and Kevin Corbet, but I contributed significantly unofficially. This has happened before with a ...

Last week we reviewed a large reel of processed film. Here are some gorgeous color images from part of Channel 9&10 News film footage of the Sand Dunes in Michigan in fall 1977. If you visit there fairly regularly you are struck immediately by how much the landscape has changed since then. I love the camper image- this is how people used to look and camp, no fancy 5th wheels back then. It is pretty new which you can tell from its 1970s colors. I also love the signs, which no longer exist, Natural Beauty Road is the truth. I love the sleeping bear sign. Now there are a few big companies selling all the real estate in the area. A number of images were taken from an airplane. 

This is very cool. The positive impact of the CMU Museum on flooded historical and cultural institutions is highlighted in 2 of the virtual exhibit sections which are very well done. On exhibit now: Big Water Creates Big Impact - A virtual exhibition of stories, art, and research about how big water events have impacted people in Michigan.   View the virtual exhibition at library.cmich.edu/bigwater   This exhibition is co-sponsored by Central Michigan University Libraries and the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Libraries and is made possible by a grant from the American Library Association. 

The Midwest Archives Conference, my regional profession organization, is pleased to offer five scholarships for students interested in attending its upcoming Fall Symposium, “ Local Collections in the Digital Age ,” a virtual offering which will be held November 4-5, 2021.   Winners will be drawn at random from all who have entered by completing this form by October 1, 2021. Entrants will be notified of their status on or around October 4, 2021.  https://www.midwestarchives.org/2021-fall-symposium Students can join MAC for $10. 

This morning I saw people putting flags into the ground between the CMU library building and fountain. I thanked them and am so glad they did this. I had not heard that this was happening. As a nation may we never forget those who died and the sacrifices that they and their families and friends made and continue to make. Each of us who was alive on Sept. 11, 2001  knows where we were when it happened. It is a moment seared into our collective, national history, hearts and minds, similar to the senior generation who remembers hearing of the attack on Pearl Harbor.  Here are some images of today's campus efforts. 

My student processor employees are returning for fall term. Usually they begin with a smaller collection to get back in the archival groove. Mitchel is starting the term processing an 8 box addition of LeRoy Barnett's research files.    most of the boxes 1 unprocessed box 1 processed box

On Tuesday, NARA closed both the Ford Presidential Library in Ann Arbor and the Ford Museum in Grand Rapids Tues due to local COVID conditions. Read more about it here https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/

  Yes, we still get non-digital slides and negatives donated. There are two negatives of an identified man holding his infant son in the backyard in summer. The slides are of  buildings, street scenes, and trees, some in winter, in Millbrook, Michigan, where the man lived. There are also slides of a goat. Many of the images are dated with a year, which is helpful for anyone researching the village's history.  During archival processing I will withdraw duplicate images, of which there appear to be many, and images of the goat. It's cute, but has no long term research value. 

I'm eating outside and enjoying the flowers in the garden in the nice weather, trying different vistas. The sunflowers and corn in the garden are at least 6 foot and 8 foot tall respectively. Reaching up as high as I can, I can't touch the flower part of the sunflowers. Here is some floral eye candy for your day.  I'm not a perfume person, but the hysop smells fantastic! lots of bees in the pinks

My teaching podium and the tech Class view 1 and 2. When I think of  what the UM classrooms were like when I was in college in my youth I have to laugh. We had blackboards, pencil sharpeners and desks, just like my K-12 classrooms. I remember 2 classes where they used slides and projectors, 1 of which was art history. These were not digital slides or powerpoints. And in chemistry lecture there was a sink and area where the prof demonstrated what happened when you mixed chemicals. That was it.  Since I opted to teach HST 583 as hybrid again due to space issues in the Clarke and ongoing COVID-19, I am teaching in Pearce Hall. My classroom is one the three most technically advanced classrooms on campus. This is where I taught last year. It has 4 mikes, 2 cameras, many huge monitors, lots of tech.  There is a large monitor over each of the 9 tables, and an even larger one on each wall. I am in the middle of the room. I've also learned after the tech issues last year, like the...