Contributed by Gary Saretzky The Monmouth County Archives has planned an Archives Week celebration, culminating with Archives and History Day on October 12, 2013, similar to the one held for the seventeenth time last year, when about 350 people attended all or part of the event. The program will be held at the Monmouth County … More Upcoming Archives Week in Monmouth County
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
via the Library Company of Philadelphia: One of the original feet to the secretary desk owned by William Penn has been found! This wonderful discovery is due to the help of a number of people. It all began when Laura Keim, curator of the Germantown Historical Society’s collection, came across a foot in their collection … More Penn desk finds fit foot
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
Contributed by Jenna Marrone If the stack of empty pizza boxes was any indication, then last week’s Archivists Being Awesome (ABA) event was a raging success! The meeting, which took place Thursday night, February 28, at Temple University’s Paley Library, featured fifteen-minute presentations from four Philadelphia-area archivists. Margery Sly, Director of the Special Collections Research … More Another successful meeting of Archivists Being Awesome
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
Delaware Valley Archivists Group 