Author Archives: Kevin

We had an informal workshop at work today about Google, not just Google the search engine but Google the social phenomenon. The Google Perspective. ePIC 2014. The group seemed to agree that professional researchers build their skills not by choosing … Continue reading →

“My mother’s a librarian, but I hate to read,” Sharon Grover’s son is quoted as saying in today’s Washington Post article by Valerie Strauss about boys and reading, page A12. [Does this sound like a radio ad for the paper, … Continue reading →

With this posting I celebrate my blog self, completely, utterly, and proudly. Should any ALA president find a photo of my friend’s cat anti-intellectual, he’s just outta the loop and didn’t get the memo. Teshup is my pin up, of … Continue reading →

I’m back @ school, doing things archival and loving it – for the most part. This semester is about learning how to appraise, how to preserve, and how to legally manage information. Good, solid classes each. This semester is also … Continue reading →

Human Rights Archives: The first in a series of blog entries. The National Security Archive is one example of a human rights archive, a place that collects materials documenting the ongoing struggle for human equality. Internet access to archival material … Continue reading →

Today begins a journey to Boston, not one of political campaigns but a road trip of new archivists from the University of Maryland College Park. Members of the group Student Archivists at Maryland (SAM) will leave this afternoon and begin … Continue reading →

Archives articles are all over the news this week: the Sandy Berger story, the Archivist of the U.S. story (very well summed up by Keith in a post below), and a piece on the New York Times Op-Ed page this … Continue reading →

After hearing about Fahrenheit 9/11 I was eager to see it, and now after watching it for the first time, I was NOT disappointed. While comparisons to Bowling for Columbine differ among my friends, the movie serves up a thoughtful … Continue reading →

Good news from across the Atlantic–the BBC is making its material available in a special news archive. For U.S. readers looking for a more complete view of world events than American publishers are willing to print, this should be VERY … Continue reading →

A new series of posts about human rights archives After a week of patriotic frenzies for former President Ronald Reagan, I thought I would announce an upcoming series on archives with an interest in human rights. Our nation is only … Continue reading →