Explore the darker side of the Ferguson Collection
With Hallowe’en just behind us, in the first of a series of spooky-themed blog posts by the University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections, we delve into 19th century literature on the occult. In this article we look at Sir Walter Scott’s (famed writer of Ivanhoe) conception of the supernatural, before moving on to explore the significance of a rare anthology of ghost stories https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/the-darker-side-of-the-ferguson-collection-part-1/
Calling all people and institutions that work with archives!
This year's theme for "Explore Your Archive Week" is in the attached graphic. The campaign has really good engagement over on #X and we'd love to see the campaign to celebrate archives take off here on #Mastodon
Share your archives under the hashtags and we'll boost.
A fascinating story for #blues fans and #archivists. My friend Jeff Place at the Smithsonian is devoted to research like this and is a living, breathing musical encyclopedia.
(gift article)
“He spent a lifetime collecting the blues. The Smithsonian listened.”
We are "Explore Your Archive"; an Archives and Records Association (ARA) platform to encourage everyone to visit, use, celebrate and be inspired by archives in the UK & Ireland.
We run monthly hashtags to share archives on particular themes, with a focus week coming up in November. See our website for further details and lots of other great content celebrating archives: https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/create/social-media/
Share your archives with us for October with the hashtag #EYASpooky !
My first several jobs in #archives were term positions, and that really sucked.
Excited to read though “Best Practices for Archival Term Positions,” which was just endorsed by the Society of American #Archivists
“At the foundation of this document is the recognition that temporary #labor is detrimental to employees, as well as to #sustainable and holistic #collection stewardship.”
I just discovered another point of fandom static website supremacy: if/when you craft your fic masterpost webpage and/or your reclists, they are easily scrapable with #Calibre#FanficFare for bulk downloading.