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  Organisations which hold collections of audio recordings of Scottish traditional music are invited to submit their details for inclusion in the Scottish Traditional Music Archive Directory.  Scottish Traditional Music Archive Directory  The  Traditional Music Forum  (TMF) is developing a Directory of organisations inside and outside of Scotland with collections of Scottish traditional music as part of our work towards a Scottish Traditional Music Archive.  The Directory will act as a signpost to help people interested in Scottish traditional music identify pertinent collections, contact collection holders, and make links between material.   We seek to include the broad range of traditional music found in and coming from Scotland, including traditional music made by people who have come to Scotland and by those who have moved away.   ...

The Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, is recruiting a full-time Digital Specialist to join our microfilming and digitization unit. The Digitization Specialist will work with the team to microfilm and digitize newspapers, photographs, maps, manuscripts, and other historical materials, among other job responsibilities. The estimated starting pay rate is $14.00 - $17.00 per hour. For more information about this opportunity and to apply, the posting is: https://www.jobs.cmich.edu/postings/39045 .

 For me this is the most exciting find in the years we've spent processing and describing CMU Athletics because national athletic heroes of my childhood were featured on Wheaties boxes! Jody Beerman autographed the box above. The box is incomplete; we have the front and one of the sides because it wouldn't otherwise fit in a folder. She is wearing an Indiana jersey on the box, but she played for CMU and is in our Hall of Fame. Here's a news article about her on the box. 

  Last week we watched and described a 9&10 News film reel #102 dated April 10-11, 1975 in the Clarke. It was described by 9&10 as "PBB Tour". This is raw moving film footage of when Michigan officials and a 9&10 News crew toured an unidentified Michigan farm where the dairy cows had been sickened after ingesting PBB-contaminated feed. The film shows the exterior of the farm, the tour group walking through the farm, farmers and veterinarian Doc Clark with the tour group viewing the cows which are so sick they can't stand up in the barn, sad faces of obviously suffering cows, and a black cat with the cows.  The cow image above and images below are of raw footage of the tour on reel #102.  More than one farm was toured. Read more below. Doc Clark in white coat According to a Saginaw News article of April 11, 1975, the film documents the visit of 15 Michigan legislators from the Senate and House who toured farms in Osceola and Mecosta counties where dairy herds h...