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We've received an inquiry at the Clarke asking if students or recent students are interested in doing contract work to organize, archival house, and describe a collection with a finding aid. The collection is the material of George Bennard who wrote the Old Rugged Cross. Here is a link to an MLive story about the hymn, its history and Bennard.   https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2011/04/post_106.html If you are interested, contact the Old Rugged Cross Museum  in Reed City at https://www.infomi.com/city/reedcity/museum.html

  Just in time for cold weather, CMU OCRIE (Office of Civil Rights and Institutional Equity) has the best freebibes-an icescraper and gloves to go with my squeezy stress squirrel! Awesome on a cold, bone-penetrating windy day.

 Here's the link to the job description. https://www.hathitrust.org/associate-director?mc_cid=dcb6181db3&mc_eid=d6d2385d86

I would not have accomplished all the processing and description I have in the last 26 years without my student processors. Student processors might be interns, volunteers, or paid student employees. Here are my current volunteers: Anna, Blake, and Rebekah. They are all processing parts of CMU. Athletics team folders-Track and Field, Wrestling, and Volleyball. While most of my students are heading into careers in museums or archives, Jake and Rebekah will soon be student teaching on their way to becoming high school history teachers. They have all learned how to process, type box and folder listings and are a great asset to me. Rebekah has also learned how to describe moving image film.  I am very grateful for their willingness to volunteer. I would pay them all if I could. 

 If you have any archival questions, please ask and I will answer them.

 It's October and that means it's archives month. I wanted to highlight my students in the archives.  Interns Halsey and Josh are the main muscle processing, merging, proofing, typing up the finding aid box and folder listings for  CMU. Athletics.  Last month with help from Anna, Rebekah and Blake we processed 36 cubic feet of materials, almost all Athletics! We are nearly done with Track and Field, 2 feet of Volleyball is done, and we have six feet of Wrestling and a few high school sports camps and all the sports teams folders will be done. That only leaves student and staff folders, publications, some images, and lots of miscellaneous at least another 50 cubic feet. We are seriously making headway. Also, Halsey and I reorganized 3 boxes of Aladdin order indexes and poor Halsey had to refolder and label them and will type them up. This is a great opportunity for them to get hands on experiential experience, mentoring, and helps the Clarke get collections processed ...