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Archives Week Planning
Hello.
I'm starting to think about doing some sort of Archives Week activity
here at my little archive. We had a spectacularly successful (for us,
at least) Library Week using a "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" parody
"Who Wants to Be a Jefferson Scholar?" to entice the park staff into
learning how to use our new ProCite catalog. So now it's my turn. We
have an image catalog I'd like to show people how to use but it is
difficult to come up with some activity. It's one thing to have a
bunch of staff people come in and use the same books, another to have
everyone looking at the same much more fragile archival document.
So anyone done any kind of "activity" that worked well for this sort
of instructional purpose? Frankly, half the staff doesn't even know
who I am much less that we have a whole archives full of useful stuff
so I'm just looking for awareness here.
I'm also looking for products. Part of our library week success was
due to the prizes-we had a nice selection of mugs with library slogans
and images. Does anyone out there make any pencils, notepads, mugs
anything at all that says something about Archives? I've never seen
it if they do. (I know you can have things made but when I called
someplace about trying to get Archives volunteer mugs they were
interested till I told them I only needed five. Then they just
laughed at me.)
So if anyone is struck by any brilliant inspiration or knows of some
products please let me know! (I thought about tying it to Survivor
somehow after our Millionaire parody got everyone talking but by
October that craze will be way over).
Thanks,
Jen Rawlings
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
St. Louis, MO
jeff_archivist@nps.gov
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