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Re: Archives Week Planning
Archives Week is October 8-15, 2000. Dates vary each year but it is the
second week of October.
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> From: Lisa Moellering[SMTP:lmoellering@HMH.ORG]
> Reply To: Archives & Archivists
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 11:25 AM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: Archives Week Planning
>
> When is Archives Week?
>
> Lisa Moellering
> Holocaust Museum Houston
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]On
> > Behalf Of JEFF Archivist
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 8:11 AM
> > To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> > Subject: 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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