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In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
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Monday, October 25, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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Click here to browse some of the media available on the Encyclopedia.
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
Standing, Left to Right: Glenn Whaley, Steve Teske, Michael Hodge
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
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Monday, October 4, 2010
Celebrate Archives!
In honor of American Archives Month, this blog is featuring photographs of Butler Center staff members in action. Enjoy!
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Meet the Staff: Frances Morgan
Frances Morgan is Manager of the Bill Clinton State Government Project. She graciously agreed to answer a few questions about being an archivist.
What is an archivist?
An archivist is a professional who appraises, arranges, preserves, describes and makes available to researchers information determined to have long-term value.
What made you want to be an archivist? How did you get into this line of work?
I love history! My undergrad major was history and when I learned of the graduate degree program in Public History at UALR I decided to enter. My graduate assistantship was in the old Arkansiana Room at CALS and it was there that I became interested in archival management.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
My staff and I spend most of our day processing the materials in the Clinton Project. I’ve found that I’m enjoying learning about how Arkansas government works. I was never interested in political science before, but I’m seriously considering getting another undergrad degree in that discipline.
What is the oddest/most interesting thing/etc. you have found in a collection?
Over ten years ago, I worked on the Jay Miller Aviation Collection. A couple of my most interesting finds were a box of dirty, tattered T-shirts with various aviation logos on their fronts and, in another box, all sorts of in-flight snacks that included dried-up and melted chocolate. But the MOST interesting find was the World War I hand-held bomb. That type of bomb was held over the side of the airplane and dropped on the target by hand!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Arkansas Studies Institute: The Move, Week 2
We are in the middle of week two of the move to the ASI. We moved 3000+ boxes on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The boxes are all snug in their new homes and manuscripts staff is settling in to our new office space.
Most of the boxes made the trip over on book carts. Here are the first few carts loaded up and ready to go.
Processed collections went straight into compact shelving in the new archival storage addition.
Unprocessed collections are stored in the manuscripts department office/processing area where staff are slowly trying to get set up in their new space.
Upstairs, the rest of the ASI anxiously awaits staff. Here is a sneak peak of the area:
Contributed by Stephanie Bayless, Manuscripts Department.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Arkansas Studies Institute: The Move
The Butler Center has been a whirlwind of activity as we have started moving to the new Arkansas Studies building. This week, 2600+ boxes from the Clinton Gubernatorial Project made the journey across the street and into the new compact storage. Their old shelving soon followed and left a large empty spot in our storage area.
Encyclopedia of Arkansas staff is going to round out this week by moving their supplies today. Starting Monday, the manuscripts department will be moving, so I have spent this week preparing our collections. Thankfully, my wonderful co-workers have jumped in to help me when they had some spare time even though the job isn’t that glamorous. Special thanks go out to Sara and Jamie who spent hours helping me number each and every box with a neon sticky note.
To make the move easier and faster, we are numbering our boxes in order with a sticky note. Instead of having to read the collection number/box number/etc. to determine what goes where, we can simply load the boxes by the number on the sticky. By the time I left yesterday, we had labeled about 2900 boxes (and I'm not done yet!). The end result looks something like this:
Having severely underestimated the number of sticky notes required, Sara and I visited two Office Depot locations and relieved them of their stock of 4x6 super sticky neon post-its. She was gracious enough to let me take her picture as she negotiated our plunder.
One week down! Don’t forget: The Butler Center research room will be open next week, but manuscript collections will not be accessible until we reopen in the Arkansas Studies Institute. Read more...
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Some thoughts on working at the Butler Center
One of the nicest things about working at the Butler Center is the opportunity I have had to see just how much state and local history means to our patrons. Those of you who have lived a sessile lifestyle and were exposed to local history all your life might take it for granted that history means something to the people of Arkansas. As an army brat who frequently moved across state and national borders, history for me was not only another time, but almost always another place. Having no true home state or town to call my own precluded me from having anything but the most tenuous connections to local history which, in turn, means that I was a history orphan. Have no fear, gentle readers, as this story has a happy ending.
While studiously manning the front desk at the BC, I have had ample opportunity to assist our patrons in their genealogical quests to discover themselves. I have never had much of an interest in my own genealogy and was shocked to discover that the genealogy of others is actually quite interesting. We have one African-American patron researching his great-grandfather who was a Buffalo Soldier and lived to be 101 years old. Aside from the gee-whiz-this-is-cool factor, which, quite frankly, is good enough for me, the genealogical records can also be used to fit individual lives into the context of historical changes. For example, by examining the census records of the latter half of the nineteenth century, you can observe that more and more Americans were moving from rural to urban areas. I bet when the 1940 census is available, we will find a lot of people who were in the 1930 Oklahoma census in places like California or Texas.
Perhaps one of the most satisfying aspects of my employment at the BC has been my limited involvement with BASE (Books for Arkansas Students' Education). I cannot say that entering book titles into a grand database or a catalog is particularly exciting, but knowing that these books are going to disadvantaged high schools makes it all worthwhile. Working with BASE has enabled me to get in touch with my inner hippie by providing others with the opportunity to get in touch with their Arkansas roots. It has also helped me feel more connected to Arkansas history than I ever felt before. I have adopted Arkansas history as my own local history, so I suppose that means I am no longer a history orphan. See, I promised you a happy ending, and I delivered.
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