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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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