by kitchensisters | Aug 7, 2019 | The Keepers
RIP, D.A. Pennebaker, 1925-2019. Learn more about this legendary documentary filmmaker at npr.org.
by kitchensisters | Aug 6, 2019 | The Keepers
RIP Toni Morrison, 1931-2019. “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
by kitchensisters | Aug 2, 2019 | The Keepers
Today we’re heading to Austin for the annual gathering of the Society of American Archivists to accept the 2019 J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award for our series The Keepers. The award honors an individual, institution or organization that promotes greater...
by kitchensisters | Aug 1, 2019 | The Keepers
Listener Steve Karsch wrote to tell us about the Desert Libraries of Chinguetti. From kottke.org: For hundreds of years, families in Mauritania have been maintaining libraries of old Arabo-Berber books. Originally on the route of pilgrims travelling to Mecca, the...
by kitchensisters | Jul 31, 2019 | The Keepers
“The Library of Congress Needs Your Help Transcribing Suffragist Papers” From Smithsonian.com: “Over the past year, By the People has introduced a number of “campaigns” calling on volunteers to transcribe the digitized papers of Abraham Lincoln,...
by kitchensisters | Jul 25, 2019 | The Keepers
From the New York Times: “The most significant collection of photographs depicting African-American life in the 20th century is being auctioned. Historians fear the archive could end up hidden away.”
by kitchensisters | Jul 24, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Gary Kamiya, historian and author of Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco and the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Portals of the Past” column. We love the way Gary spins a yarn. Hear him on our podcast, “San Francisco–Stories from the...
by kitchensisters | Jul 18, 2019 | The Keepers
The Fresh Air Archive is live! “Explore over 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world.” Start digging and listening at freshairarchive.org.
by kitchensisters | Jul 16, 2019 | The Keepers
Proud to say The Kitchen Sisters have been given a GRAMMY Preservation Grant—along with the likes of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, San Francisco Symphony and Tulane’s archive of the first black disc jockey in New Orleans—to preserve and protect our deep...
by kitchensisters | Jul 15, 2019 | The Keepers
On the latest episode of The Kitchen Sisters Present… we talk with Nancy Pearl, “one of the 10 coolest librarians alive.” She’s the best selling author of Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason, and a regular commentator about...
