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Susan J. von Salis, archivist and information systems administrator of Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library, said her library has had to buy new computers and upgrade software to Windows 2000 to run the ALEPH software. The upgrade requires additional training for library staff since most of the staff were only familiar with Windows...
...Acting Archivist Kathy Kraft, the job has personal significance. She says it gives her a look behind the scenes of the women’s movement, which she herself participated...
...small school in Schenectady, N.Y., insists its role in the color change was central. For Union, too, had a similar love affair with magenta in the mid-19th century. In 1866 a committee of Union undergraduates chose magenta as the school’s official color, according to Union archivist Ellen Fladger. Fladger says that when Union and Harvard faced off in an 1875 Rowing Association Regatta, “a crisis ensued when each team claimed priority to the color.” Though Union lore holds that the New York college forced Harvard to abandon the magenta, Fladger...
...days, the federally-funded presidential library does not have the manpower to even catalog the 1,800 boxes of gubernatorial records—let alone to respond to file requests—in such a brief period of time. Much to the dismay of Texas’ state archivist, who has the resources to handle the thousands of pages and has been one of the most vocal opponents of Bush’s scheme, the shortest notice the library can give petitioners is 90 days. And because it is a federal institution, it claims no allegiance to Texas state...
Angela Hur: I’m writing a novel that centers around the translation of a dead mother’s diaries (written in Korean) and the resulting love triangle that develops among the mother (in the form of her writing), the translator and the daughter (an archivist and the narrator). So basically it’s about language, obsessions with textual characters, a threesome with your mom and lots of paper. A major part of the novel is the family story, typically dysfunctional and told through the daughter’s memories triggered by the diary entries...