Month: February 2013

Now forming: DVAG Committee on Small Repositories

February 21, 2013

Celia Caust-Ellenbogen, DVAG membership coordinator If you think all the best archival materials are held at major, well-known manuscript repositories with large staffs of trained archivists, you are wrong. In the past year and a half I’ve visited more than 50 small archival repositories operating without a full-time professional archivist, and in that time I’ve … More Now forming: DVAG Committee on Small Repositories

Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra

February 19, 2013

The 2012-2013 concert season of the Philadelphia Orchestra marks the one hundredth anniversary of the appointment of Leopold Stokowski as the Orchestra’s Conductor. Over the course of his twenty nine-year tenure with the PO, Stokowski developed it into one of the world’s greatest musical ensembles and helped establish Philadelphia as a center of excellence and … More Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra

New gallery exhibition at UD Library

February 19, 2013

The University of Delaware Library announces the opening of a new exhibition, “In Focus: Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital,” which will be on display in the Special Collections Exhibition Gallery on the second floor of the Morris Library from January 29, 2013, through June 16, 2013. “In Focus: Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital” reflects the … More New gallery exhibition at UD Library

Workshop Review: “Digital Forensics for Archivists”

February 19, 2013

Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services Special Collections Research Center, Temple University On December 3, I had the opportunity to attend the Society of American Archivists workshop, “Digital Forensics for Archivists” (SAA workshop #1365). The one-day workshop was graciously hosted by the American Philosophical Society, and is part of the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) Curriculum … More Workshop Review: “Digital Forensics for Archivists”