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Re: Archives Week Planning...Let me suggest...



Jeff --

As a seasoned former museums exhibit designer (and exhibits themes
brainstormer) and also sometime graphic designer/museum store merchandise
designer (I"ve done SO much in my 20+ professional years!)... how about
somehow tying your Archives Week idea theme to the Quadrennial Presidential
Elections ["Cast Your Vote"]? And there's still the REAL millennial shift
coming...["Archives For a Thousand Years!"] or some such...

There are producers of mugs and T-shirts who do lesser runs of merchandise
through photo-transfer graphics processes. Often these folks are connected
to trophy shops, although some (occasionally found in major shopping malls)
are small jobbers in the collectible/textiles trade. Thanks to PC-based art
design ease, costs for embroidered shirts (especially) have dropped, and the
quality has gone up in a lot of cases. Just last year I set up a line of
goods for my last employer's museum store utilizing PC-scanned or designed
artwork...and we ended up with some pretty nice looking embroidered T's and
polo shirts, aprons, towels, etc.

Good luck and have fun. It's a great idea!

Kevin (at 45, almost a Renaissance Man) Bunker
Student Assistant
California State Archives
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> From:         JEFF Archivist[SMTP:JEFF_Archivist@NPS.GOV]
> Reply To:     Archives & Archivists
> Sent:         Wednesday, August 16, 2000 6:11 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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