Ask an Archivist

Now is your chance to let me know what you would like to see on this blog. Email me at sbayless@cals.org or comment here with topics you would like to learn about or questions you would like to have answered.


Say you want to see a photograph of an Arkansas landmark in the 1930s. Sure, ask me. If we have it, I’ll show you.

Maybe you want to know about how to take care of personal documents/photographs you have around the house. Ask me, I’ll try and help you out.

Or maybe you are curious about the behind-the-scenes work here at the Butler Center. Ask away. If I can tell you without getting fired, I probably will.

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Things of Interest. . .

First, check out this New York Times article about a sound recording predating Edison's recordings with the phonograph. And hear a clip of the audio from 1860.

Then, read about the Maryland plantation attic that held documents dating from the 1660s to World War II in this Washington Post article. Then visit the Poplar Glove Project blog to learn about the processing of the documents (with photographs!).

Next, check out this blog entry at Everything is Miscellaneous about the Boston Public Library's gigantic digitization project.

And finally, visit the Butler Center's website to listen to podcasts from the 2008 Arkansas Literary Festival.

Contributed by Stephanie Bayless, Manuscripts Department.

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Blogging Archives

Looking for some more archive related blogs to read?

Visit Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities to learn about the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

Keep up to date with the latest Library of Congress adventures.

Or check out the offerings of the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama at cool@hoole.

Interested in the archivists instead of the archives? At Alone in the Archives you can follow the thoughts of a lone arranger at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.


Still want more? Why don't you check out the Archive and Special Collections Blog List for a publically maintained list of archival blogs. Or subscribe to ArchivesBlogs and read a syndication of archive related posts from around the world.

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