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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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