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I'm very proud to share that Kenndall Wallace, one of my film project students, seen above in the beret, won the regional semi-final playwriting award from Region III of the Kennedy Center/ American College Theater Festival (KCATF)! She is now in the running as a national finalist. Kenndall won the National Playwriting Program John Cauble award for her one act play,  Mosaic Woman.  The KCACTF annually recognizes student playwrights in several categories of excellence. Region III applicants met in December 2022 for a week at the University of Michigan where they participated in workshops, cast actors for their play, got their feedback to enhance their writing and supervised production on stage. These students, including Kenndall, are also competing for scholarships. If Kenndall wins a scholarship she plans to put it towards studying abroad to learn more about playwriting in London.  She is also applying for an internship in the television academy in August 2023. Kenndall r...

I interned in the Clarke Archives fall term 2022. With another intern, Josh, I was responsible for processing the bulk of CMU Athletics team folders, typing up the box and folder listing, and merging their boxes with boxes processed by other students, and encoding the majority of the CMU Athletic teams boxes. For undated material, I researched names to identify the dates.  I also helped identify which folders and boxes certain Michigan maritime stereographs were housed in, to help Marian link the digitized images to the catalog records.  Congratulations Halsey! As a new CMU graduate she is on her way to earn a higher degree in another state. I wish her well and will miss her. 

    Digital Curation and Preservation Archivist (Archivist II/III)   Apply online at jobs.wayne.edu .  Description   The Walter P. Reuther Library of Wayne State University seeks forward-thinking, creative, and collaborative applicants for the position of Digital Curation and Preservation Archivist. The successful candidate will join a user-centered community of colleagues pursuing innovative and transformative approaches to archival work. Reporting to the Reuther Library Director, the position will provide leadership and vision in developing sustainable digital preservation infrastructure, policies, and workflows, and work closely with peer Archivists to oversee the long-term preservation and use of born-digital and digitally reformatted collections.  The position is a full-time, regular, 12-month, benefits-eligible appointment as Academic Staff, a...

This week with some ingenuity I fixed a broken film crank. Thanks to my husband who cut up a wire hanger so we could have something of the correct diameter to poke through the holes in the crank and the shaft. You can see the wire which is perpendicular to the body of the crank. The cranks were bought used, as most moving image film equipment needed for preservation is no longer manufactured. Now we can proceed with the film preservation project this term. 

  Archivists, librarians and curators know they should have disaster prevention and recovery plans, but with the catastrophic flooding in California, many people, including the professionals, need extra help. Here are some resources.  For archivists: for immediate advice or assistance: contact the National Heritage Responders at 202.661.8068 or  https://www.culturalheritage.org/resources/emergencies/national-heritage-responders Flood Recovery Resources https://culturalrescue.si.edu/hentf/resources/response-and-recovery-resources/ (HENTF) Disaster Response and Recovery Guides  https://www.culturalheritage.org/resources/emergencies/disaster-response-recovery (FAIC) Archivists can request grants from SAA Foundation National Disaster Recovery Fund for Archives (NDRFA) for up to $5,000 for immediate recovery needs. https://www2.archivists.org/groups/saa-foundation-board-of-directors/national-disaster-recovery-fund-for-archives SAA Crisis Collecting Assistance Team pr...

a page from [Officium beate Marie virginis] or Book of Hours, 1490s After His Holiness Pope Benedict died, I thought it would be interesting to note the breadth of research resources we have in the Clarke documenting the history of Catholics and Catholicism. Most of our resources focus or have a connection to Michigan and the Northwest Territories, but some are broader in scope. We have primary and secondary sources in multiple languages, predominantly English, French, Anishinaabe languages, and Latin. Catholics, Baptists and Methodist missionaries were the first to try to convert the indigenous in Michigan, so much of the early material focuses on missions and missionaries.  While most of our material is 18th century and forward, we have earlier items, including two very early examples of Catholic publications, as our illuminated manuscript, the  Officium beate Marie virginis] or Book of Hours, 1490s, and Directorum chori: introitus missarum cum canticis alleluia, iuxta gradu...

  Josh Bradley interned in the Clarke archives unit last term.  Hello! My name is Josh Bradley, and in the image above I am looking at the scorebooks from various years in Central Michigan University Softball.  The issue at hand was how to categorize them according to the years listed in the book itself, not so much what was written on the front.  From there I had to make a folder detailing the span of years the scorebook tracked, but sometimes there were dates from different months or years in various books.  This was part of the process I enjoyed because trying to make sense of chaos and bring order to the collections was almost like detective work (especially if game or match results didn’t have a date attached to them).  Overall my internship at the Clarke Historical Library was a great experience, one I hope to continue there volunteering this semester!  Josh and Halsey were both my interns last term. They accomplished the bulk of processing for C...