via the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, by Faith Charlton During the late 1930s and early 1940s Bensalem High School was a powerhouse for girls’ sports. Their basketball, softball, and field hockey teams, led by Coach Helen M. Smith (d. 1989), all won several championship titles. Read more…
This blog has been re-published from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s “Fondly, Pennsylvania” blog (http://hsp.org/blogs/fondly-pennsylvania/greenfield-digital-project-launched). It was shared with DVAG by Dana Dorman, Digital Projects Manager, Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Drum roll, please . . . the Greenfield Digital Project has made its official debut! Please take a minute to check it out: Closed for Business: The … More Greenfield Digital Project Launched
This blog post has been re-published from the Mudd Manuscript Library Blog. Many thanks to them for the content. Recently, the Mudd Library was awarded a grant from the NHPRC to support scanning and uploading 400,000 pages of their most-viewed material to their finding aids site. Once the work is done, anyone with an internet connection will be able to view it. … More How and Why We Digitize
Contributed by Lauri Cielo, Director of Programs and Communications, Historical Society of Pennsylvania The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is hosting a new theatrical work this April that explores the question of why archives are important, and how we interact with the history and stories within these collections. The performance, titled ArkHIVE, will be held in the Historical … More Using Theater to Explore Archives
Contributed by Jenna Marrone The DVAG meeting held last Thursday, March 21, at the Mummers Museum sparkled with pageantry, pizzazz, and that most glamorous of user engagement tools – metrics. Azavea’s Deb Boyer spoke on the benefits of using website metrics to evaluate the ways in which users interact with digital collections. Based on her … More PhillyHistory.org’s Deb Boyer interprets website metrics
The next DVAG meeting will be on Thursday, March 21 from 4:00-6:00pm at The Riverfront Mummers Museum 1100 S 2nd St Philadelphia, PA 19147 (215) 336-3050 Joan Decker, Records Commissioner, City of Philadelphia, will greet and introduce Deb Boyer. Deb Boyer, Azavea, will present PhillyHistory Website Metrics! Joan Decker and Jill Rawnsley will be available to answer any other questions about the … More Next DVAG Meeting, March 21
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
via the Presbyterian Historical Society News Several recordings of public appearances by Martin Luther King, Jr. have recently been uncovered at PHS. In honor of Martin Luther King Day, we’d like to share parts of them with you. On September 21, 1966, three thousand people packed the Hartley-Woods Gymnasium of Johnson C. Smith University in … More Martin Luther King Jr. recordings uncovered
Upcoming Meeting Disaster Relief & Disaster Triage December 12, 2012 (More Information) The Delaware Valley Archivists Group was established in 1980 to provide area archivists the opportunity to talk and visit archives of all sizes throughout the region. Since its inception, DVAG has sought to: Promote the preservation of historic documents; Provide a forum where … More December meeting at the Presbyterian Historical Society
A Serendipitous Life: From German POW to American Psychologist February 28, 2012 6:30 pm Penn Bookstore 3601 Walnut St. Philadelphia http://upenn.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BNCBcalendarEventListView?langId=-1&storeId=10056&catalogId=10001 215.898.7595 An intimate and inspiring look at the life story of one of the century’s foremost psychiatrists. Penn Professor Karl Rickels shares his amazing life story – from growing up in Berlin, time … More Philly Fun Stuff Feb 28 to March 11
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