You are invited to join fellow DVAG members Wednesday April 12 for a group tour of Eastern State Penitentiary’s After Hours Pop-Up Exhibit: Prison Breaking News! This private event open to museum members, neighbors, and colleagues in DVAG will offer you the chance to be one of the first to see ESP’s special exhibit.  Attendees … More Join us 4/12 for a group tour of Eastern State Penitentiary’s After Hours Pop-Up Exhibit: Prison Breaking News!

On March 7, 2017, DVAG had its general meeting. The topic was reading room policies and practices. There were three different speakers as well as a discussion of the results of the DVAG Reading room policies survey previously sent out to DVAG members. Here’s a summary of what you missed, as well as some resources provided at … More Reading Room Policies & Practices: A Recap of DVAG’s 3/7/17 General Meeting

Submitted by Barbara Anne Beaucar In the spring of 2016, as a result of internal restructuring, the Barnes Foundation’s Archives, Libraries, and Special Collections department lost two of its valuable members. The shakeup also included an ambitious plan to move the institution’s archives and special collections from its home on the Merion campus to the … More The Barnes Foundation’s Archives and Special Collections Moves to the Parkway

Looking back on 2016, the year featured a variety of engaging and enjoyable meetings for Archivists Being Awesome. On April 19th, we met at the Philadelphia History Museum and heard about some of the amazing projects that our colleagues have been working on recently. Speakers included Kelsey Duinkerken, Scott Ziegler, Bryan Dickerson, Christiana Dobrzynski Grippe, … More 2016 Vice-Chair’s Report

2016 was a busy and exciting year for archivists in the Delaware Valley, beginning with our March meeting on the care and management of audio-visual materials at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. We also held a town-hall discussion on the ethics of archival internships at the Wagner Free Institute of Science, explored the … More 2016 Chair’s Report

As always, DVAG is invested in transparency and to that end we present our treasurer’s report, representing our finances at the end of 2016. This year we increased our SAA Annual Meeting Travel Grant to support not one, but two local archivists attending the conference. We continued to hold funds for PhillyDH to support THATCamp Philly, and … More 2016 Treasurer’s Report