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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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