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Happy Turkey Day. Wishing you a happy holiday weekend with safe travels. Here are some historic turkey day postcards circa 1900-1920. 

  Last night I had the great pleasure of attending the CMU CLASS (College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences) award night. My student Katie Higley won the Shapiro Prize in Social and Behavioral Sciences with the most outstanding student paper written in the college. Her paper was titled "Reel talk: the current state of film collections in Michigan." She also won a scholarship. Dr. Britt Fremion was her official and I her unofficial mentor, so we both stood up with her. Katie was inspired to begin the project from processing and describing Channel 9 & 10 News footage in the Clarke. In the photo we are left to right, me, Katie's mom Nicole, Katie, and Britt. I was impressed with all the students who won awards and scholarships. Their interest and work is inspiring. They are our future. That gives me hope.

 This is very interesting to me. Back in 2007 when I had an exhibit in the Clarke on MI circus and carnival one of my guest speakers was Erin Foley, then the reference librarian at the Baraboo, WI, Robert L. Parkinson Research Library, which has a massive collection of circus and carnival historical collections. She delivered a fantastic presentation at CMU which discussed the impact of circus and carnival on the US and the challenges and limitations within the Library of Congress subject heading system to accurately and respectfully describe circus and carnival performers. Well, finally someone else is tackling this and with the omnipresent digital everything now has a broader audience to make more people aware of these issues. Here is a link to the blog: https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/putting-a-name-to-harm-remediating-the-titles-of-the-sideshow-performers-collection/ The blog which describes how an archivist is approaching and dealing with the challenges of describi

  We recently received a CMU Theatre poster with an unusual silver, reflective background.  As you turn it  in and out of the light, the faces on the poster fade in and out of the silver. This is the only background like this  in our CMU poster collection. The poster advertises an Edward Albee play, A Delicate Balance, which was performed in Bush Theatre during December in a year yet to be identified. I'm thinking it was sometime from the early to mid-1980s based on the men's hairstyles. CMLife reports that the play was performed in spring 1974, but does not mention later productions. Hopefully CMU Theatre can help me date it. Albee was an award winning American playwright. Among his notable works are The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1962) and A Delicate Balance (1966). 

Brittany Bayless Fremion and I are in this CMU Office of Research and Graduate Studies video for 4 seconds. She is pretending to conduct an oral history with me. We are at the following seconds: 14-15 and 40-51. Don't blink or you'll miss us. I find this amusing. All that work for 4 seconds. However we are the sole representatives from  her college, History, World  Languages and Cultures, and my unit, the CMU Libraries.

  Remote Civil War meta data job available at Ohio University Libraries. Apply by Nov. 21, 2022. See  www.ohiouniversityjobs.com/postings/43929  for more info.

 My intern Halsey found this. A Holocaust archives is becoming available on ancestry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l42DhnDtgc0