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  Had to repair our film crank yet again. Thanks to my husband, Rod, who cut wire hangers into sections for me to go through the holes of the crank. Now we have some extras for the next time we have to fix it.

I ran across this today while training a student how to find material in the stacks. Clare 2079 was a centennial project of the Clare Public Schools and Mid-MI Arts Council including students' poems, ideas, and drawings by Clare students about how they envisioned life might be in 2079. Here are a few entries I found very interesting. One drawing included flying cars like the Jetsons, but cooler looking, more like hotrods and less like sedans. The cover drawing was a vision of a future Arts Council building. It reminds me of the Sydney Opera House. The Doherty, Ideal Theatre, and public library, major Clare buildings, appeared in most of the drawings, while many of the 1979 stores that were once in Clare that they drew in futuristic style are long gone. Above on the right we see the library in its former building with a glass dome on the top with a tree growing in it. I wonder where the students are who contributed to this gem and if they even remember this project? What an awesome ...

Here is a copy of a photograph of James H. Miller, delivering US mail in a Brush runabout in Alcona County, Michigan, in 1912. Based on where the writing is located on the image, my guess is that this is a copy of a photographic postcard. This is where we typically see writing on early 1900s postcards. Note the deplorable state of the road. Then imagine the mosquitoes. In this high quality photograph details are crisp and clear. Since my husband is a car fan, I periodically ask him to identify vehicles in historic photos I process. This makes both of us happy. According to his research, this model was manufactured between 1910 and 1912.  The Brush was manufactured in Detroit and Mr. Alanson P. Brush was a major name in Detroit automotive history. He designed the first Cadillac as well as his Brush Runabout and organized the Oakland Motor Car Co., the parent company of the Pontiac Division of GM Corp. A self-trained mechanical engineer, he was the first chief designer of Cadillac Mo...

Today my friend Dr. Brittany Fremion and I took some graduation photos with Katie Higley, who will graduate in a week. Then President Bob Davies came out and we got some photos with him, too.  He was very interested in all the students and thanked us for helping them. We are both very proud of Katie and her many accomplishments and will miss her very much. What a privilege it is to help students discover their interests, learn and hone their skillsets, and help them on their journey. 

The Clarke is advertising for a Special Collections Cataloger, tenure-track position. See ad and apply at   https://www.jobs.cmich.edu/postings/38194   Contact me if you have any questions. I'm the Search Committee Chair. 

As of today the Clarke's online finding aids are automatically redirecting to the UM's new ArcLight finding aids site in the new interface providing an improved user experience. See the new site here  https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/repositories   Scroll down and click on the CMU seal to search the Clarke's online finding aid. If you have any questions, please contact me.

 Here are two short videos, both visually stunning, I thought you'd enjoy. The first, Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, Lviv, shows how the archives developed from a monastery with extensive holdings dating from 1370 into part of the national archives, its original medieval murals, volumes, bookcases, doors, interiors, and ends with a brief view of current staff digitizing the volumes to preserve these extraordinary collections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr-3FUtyGbc. This plays for 4 minutes and 37 seconds. The second is titled Unity Traditions in Centuries and shows more gorgeous views of early manuscripts and documents while telling how the leaders of Lviv and Ukraine joined forces to fight the enemy, a tradition that continues today. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGzsl0UWDeY.  This plays for under 2 minutes. The videos come from in an email to me from the Association of Canadian Archivists which held a special meeting on April 12, 2023 with the ...