by kitchensisters | Feb 11, 2019 | Lost & Found Sound, Podcast, The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Thomas Alva Edison, born this day in 1847. Look around your daily life. There’s a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere. Your desk lamp. That x-ray you got when you broke your arm. The battery in your car. The movie you saw last...
by kitchensisters | Feb 7, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives at Oregon State University Tiah Edmunson-Morton called The Keepers Hotline to tell us about the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives, the first of its kind in the nation. She collects records of hops and brewing in...
by kitchensisters | Feb 6, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Laura Hecox, Lighthouse Keeper, naturalist, citizen scientist, and founder of the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. Laura Hecox, the Keeper of the lighthouse in Santa Cruz CA from 1883 to 1916, was responsible for ensuring the light never...
by kitchensisters | Feb 4, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay on Rosa Parks Day – Rosa Parks Papers at the Library of Congress “The papers of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) span the years 1866-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 2000. The collection, which contains approximately 7,500...
by kitchensisters | Jan 31, 2019 | The Keepers
“My favorite person, my hero, is a clerk in the State Department named Stephen Pleasonton. Who, the night before the British burned the town and the Capitol in the War of 1812, realized that the charters were at risk. He rolled them up, stuffed them into linen...
by kitchensisters | Jan 30, 2019 | The Keepers
“FDR I’m convinced was a closet archivist himself. He called the Archives his baby. He designed a box to house his papers which is the prototype of the boxes we use now at the National Archives. From the very beginning the intent was that the American people...
by kitchensisters | Jan 29, 2019 | The Keepers
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.” -Albert Einstein
by kitchensisters | Jan 25, 2019 | The Keepers
DJ Spooky aka Paul D. Miller aka That Subliminal Kid is a composer, a multimedia artist, a writer, a keeper, an “exchanger” who takes on big environmental and social issues in his work. We are huge fans of his music and his way of thinking. He came by our...
by kitchensisters | Jan 24, 2019 | The Keepers
We recently sat down with Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus about the group’s upcoming performance of DJ Spooky’s Quantopia: The Evolution of the Internet, a multimedia hip hop concert experience about the history and...
by kitchensisters | Jan 23, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
Our latest podcast episode, The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System, is a collaboration with another podcast, Library Bytegeist, “a collection of stories from the front lines and fringes of libraries,” hosted by Molly Schwartz and brought to you by the...
