Word: archiviste
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...service, the young Knowles followed them there, enrolling at Balliol College, its pristine Gothic campus home to bright and blue-blooded Britons since the 13th century. There he met a don’s daughter, Jane Sheldon Davis, and married her in 1960. Davis, a literary scholar, is an archivist at the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
...Open Collections Program, an initiative begun in 2002 to digitize the University’s books, photographs, and other historical artifacts and make them accessible to individuals around the world, including people not affiliated with Harvard. The program—led by HUL Associate Director Barbara S. Graham and archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff—catalogs material based on subject matter and historical content. Sniffin-Marinoff described the plan as a counterpart to the Google Books project, which is working with HUL to digitize all of Harvard’s shelved books and manuscripts. Prior projects digitized as part...
...Jessica Quintana, the woman who lived in the trailer, went to work as an archivist at Los Alamos at age 18, right out of high school. Accounts seen by TIME of the investigation that followed her arrest reveal that even before taking the job, she "self-reported acts of drug and alcohol abuse" in high school. By her own admission, she was using drugs (marijuana) and drinking while underage even during the period of her security screening. But after promising to stop taking drugs (although not alcohol), and signing a written pledge to submit to drug testing, she received...
...summers ago, Estelle Guzik, a volunteer archivist at New York City's YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, came across a curious file previously not indexed: a cache of letters written by Anne Frank's father, Otto. The roughly 80 documents, including considerable correspondence from Otto Frank to friends, family and officials, reveal just how desperately Mr. Frank-who survived the Holocaust-was trying to save his wife Edith, his mother-in-law Rosa Hollander and his daughters Margot and Anne...
...free room and board on the Die Hard star's Los Angeles property. That sounds like a nifty idea--who wants to misplace that vintage Cybill Shepherd dartboard?--unless the friendship takes a turn. Willis is now suing Bruce DiMattia for more than $1 million, claiming his ex-archivist threatened to sell Willis' personal effects and write a tell-all book containing "highly personal, private and confidential information" unless Willis paid him $100,000 and bought him a car. That's rude. And silly. Now the guy will never get promoted to keg tapper...