Archive for May, 2012
Today’s post comes from Lisa Covi, a volunteer at the National Archives in College Park (Archives II) serving as a staff aide on the Panama Canal Photo Metal Application and World War II holdings maintenance projects. Lisa is also training as a docent to give tours of Archives II. She has a Ph.D. in Information [...]
Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on May 21, 2012, under What Are You Working On Wednesdays.
Tags: Guest blogger, volunteers Comments: 4
Today’s post comes from Kristina Maldre, Education Specialist at the National Archives at Chicago. Protestors are planning numerous demonstrations for this week, when world leaders will gather in Chicago for the 2012 NATO Summit. But assembling in the streets of the Windy City to oppose governmental policies is nothing new. This past year the Occupy [...]
Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on May 17, 2012, under NARA Coast to Coast, Photographs, Social Media (Web 2.0).
Tags: 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Grant Park, Guest blogger, Historypin Comments: 3
Join us for our next National Archives Researcher Forum! This forum will be held on Friday, May 18, at 1:00 p.m. in room G-25, the new classroom in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC (Archives I). NARA’s digitization partners will return for continued discussion of the digitization of archival records, begun at the September [...]
Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on May 11, 2012, under DC-area Researchers, Digitization.
Tags: Digitization, digitization partnerships, researcher forum Comments: 3
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