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Finally after the three of us independently documenting, Byan Whitledge,Jay Martin and I got a form and are accepting digital COVID-19 experiences from CMU students, faculty, and staff. Non-CMU community members wishing to share digital documentation of COVID-19 should contact us separately. Here is a link to the announcement and a link to read and consider sharing materials. https://www.clarkehistoricallibrary.org/2022/04/help-clarke-historical-library-and.html Read more and consider submitting materials to this project (https://forms.office.com/r/jyHQLiQX1M).

As a member of MI-SHRAB I'm delighted to announce a new job posting for a Visiting Archivist The Visiting Archivist is a federal-grant-funded position that works with institutions to consult and assist on the management and preservation of and access to historical records. The position is a component of the Save Michigan History program, an initiative of the Michigan State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB). This position will work with at least three external records-holding institution to review policies and procedures, revise or create emergency management plans and make recommendations for projects to improve records access. This is a 100% grant funded position. This is a limited term historian position working 30 hours per week (full benefits). https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/michigan/jobs/3531565/historian-9-p11-visiting-archivist

I'm Katie Higley, a junior at Central Michigan University. I am studying Public History, Museum Studies, and Cinema Studies. I have been either a volunteer, intern, or archival assistant since January 2020. I took HST 583 with Marian during the Fall 2022 semester. This semester, I continued processing and describing Channel 9&10 News film. I processed, described, and updated the finding aid while training Kenndall Wallace to work with film. This summer, I plan to apply the skills I have developed at the Clarke during an internship with the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. My time working with Channel 9&10 at the Clarke has directly impacted my future goals. I plan to obtain a graduate degree related to moving image preservation. I am looking forward to working in the Clarke again later this year! Katie has had a busy, eventful year and graced my blog several times already. She is the heart and soul of our film processing project not only with processing an...

Hello! My name is Kenndall Wallace, and I am a freshman at Central Michigan University. I have a major in Cinema Arts with a minor in Art History, and I began working for Marian as a film archival assistant in January 2022. I process film for the Channel 9&10 News, and it has been a wonderful experience. I didn't know much about film preservation before joining Marian in the Clarke Library, but working on the team has been incredibly worthwhile. I, along with Katie Higley, have processed a large amount of film in the spring semester with the intention of continuing to process film in the future. Over time, I found it to be an incredibly relaxing and overall great job, with a wonderful opportunity to learn a new craft and meet new people. I love to work with film, but more than that, I appreciate the team that I work with. The skills that the Clarke Library gave me will help me with my minor in Art History, enhance my resume, and let my future employers know that I have a pas...

Hello, my name is Jimmy Lindback and I am currently enrolled in my final semester of grad school. I majored in history with a minor in museum studies and I am also currently volunteering at the Clarke Historical Library under the guidance of Marian. I was first introduced to Marian when I enrolled in her HST 583 course, which was a fascinating class that broadened my horizons within the archival/collections field. Spring 2022 is my first-time volunteering for Marian and so far, it has been an enlightening and intriguing experience. I am currently tasked with the processing and organizing of various Athletic manuscripts and publications. So far in my archival journey I learned the importance of proper handling and organizing as both elements are crucial when going through a collection of this magnitude. I have also encoded a finding aid, a skill that I hope to expand upon moving forward. Experience like this is extremely beneficial for me and my future career. Being a museum studies min...

Hi! I’m Evelyn Calvo and I am graduating from Central Michigan University in the Spring of 2022. I will have a degree in Broadcast and Cinematic Arts, and a minor in Cinema Studies. I began working for Marian at the start of the Spring 2022 semester after seeing an email about the program from my advisor. I decided to look into the archival process as a way to fill a credit requirement. By the time I found out that I didn’t need to fill any requirements, I was already hooked. I decided to volunteer instead. I was tasked with going through processed 9&10 film and rectifying any errors or confusion. Right away I felt like a detective, and it was an honor to be able to watch and describe the amazing film. I learned how to splice film and work with the projector along with adapting to the categorization methods. Even though I never considered archiving to be part of my future, I have learned invaluable lessons about the history of Michigan, as well as the mechanics of film. It has chan...

How to address systemic racism within libraries and library organization system and description is an interesting, complex, ongoing topic within libraries. Two of the three of us working on our Reparative Cataloging project for CMU libraries were interviewed recently and included in a WCMU article/recording. I was quoted in the news article. Unfortunately I was incorrectly cited as Melissa Matyn. This is pretty funny as my last name is usually mispelled or mispronounced, not my first. Laura Thompson and Melissa James and I began the project in 2021. I've worked on bias and racism in Clarke collection description for years before that. Here's the story and audio. https://radio.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2022-04-20/a-living-document-michigan-libraries-begin-to-address-what-they-call-systemic-bias-in-collections A living document: Michigan libraries begin to address what they call systemic bias in collections | WCMU Public Radio Indigenous officials say examples of racism a...

The Michigan State Historical Records Advisory Board (MSHRAB) and the Archives of Michigan are accepting applications for the 2022 Save Michigan History Program. This year’s program includes individualized consultation with a Visiting Archivist and up to $2500 in project funding for the care, management, or access to archival collections at your institution. Learn more about this exciting opportunity at mshrab.org! The 2022 Program description and application form are now live on mshrab.org. The deadline to apply is May 21, 2022. Please contact Cynthia Ghering at gheringc1@michigan.gov with any questions.

Applications are welcome for the International Children's Literature Research Grant (ICLRG). The application packet must be received no later than May 13, 2022 to be eligible for consideration. The ICLRG will fund travel to Central Michigan University's Clarke Historical Library to conduct research using the international resources in the Clarke Historical Library's Lucile Clarke Memorial Children's Library. The winning applicant will receive $2,000 which is expected to cover transportation and living expenses while visiting the library. The ICLRG honors Dr. Susan M. Stan, a renowned expert in international and multicultural children's literature, and a generous donor to the Clarke. Dr. Stan never missed an opportunity to share her exuberant passion about international children’s literature. She taught classes as an English professor at Central Michigan University, edited resource books such as The World Through Children's Books (Scarecrow Press, 2002), and s...

Here are some images from a 3-volume set of scrapbooks of a CMU student, Donna Maladecki Campbell, class of 1984, that we recently received. These are fantastic scrapbooks. They are both artistically compiled and provide indepth documentation of student life and Calkins Hall during the early 1980s. She also noted dates, places, and names, providing context. Too often scrapbooks lack sufficient information to provide context, which makes them less useful for researchers. During her 4 years spent living in Calkins Hall, Campbell documented the 25th or silver anniversary of Calkins Hall, multiple aspects of dorm and CMU life, performance events, trips, friends, several weddings, summer events, popular phrases of the day such as "Where's the beef?", her positive attitude, greeting and note cards, and some major international events, such as the wedding of Princess Diana and Prince Charles, the 14th Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, and tennis star John McEnroe. Campbell loved ten...

SUCHO is a group of more than 1,300 cultural heritage professionals – librarians, archivists, researchers, programmers – working together to identify and archive at-risk sites, digital content, and data in Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions while the country is under attack. We are using a combination of technologies to crawl and archive sites and content, including the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, the Browsertrix crawler. So far we have saved more than 20TB of scanned documents, artworks and many other digital materials from 2,500+ websites of Ukrainian museums, libraries and archives. Learn more at https://www.sucho.org/?fbclid=IwAR1JbHhbrngXezZfJrJiGfPcDloq8S9OHkxLJS5SRF59Tohmcdh6Ye3LFHg

I can't recall ever seeing 3 jobs related to archives and special collections at the UM advertised at one time, much less on the same day. Here they are. https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/214686/collections-services-librarian-special-collections-research-center-university https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/214681/processing-archivist-special-collections-research-center-university-library https://archivesgig.com/2022/04/04/ann-arbor-mi-asst-assoc-archivist-for-academic-programs-bentley-historical-library-at-university-of-michigan/

Wow! 2 Michigan archival jobs this week! One at the Bentley: The Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan seeks an energetic, creative, culturally competent, and service-oriented individual to continue and build upon the strengths of the Bentley’s academic programs through instruction and engagement using the collections and other resources of the Bentley. Reporting to the associate director, this position will work closely with University of Michigan faculty from a variety of schools and colleges to integrate Bentley collections in their courses and research projects. The incumbent will participate in developing strategies to promote an awareness of the Bentley’s collections and the variety of teaching collaborations available. For the full job announcement, including closing date, salary, and application instructions, go to: https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/214577/archivist-academic-programs-assistantassociate The other at Hope: Hope College seeks a Two Year Vis...