by kitchensisters | Nov 27, 2018 | The Keepers
Dear Friends, While recording stories for The Keepers we had the honor and pleasure of interviewing French director Agnès Varda. We sought her out for our story Archive Fever: Henri Langlois and The Cinémathèque Française because she knew Langlois back in the day. We...
by kitchensisters | Nov 26, 2018 | The Keepers
Genevieve Weber an archivist from Victoria, British Columbia wrote to tell us about the University of Victoria’s Transgender Archives, “one of the largest collections of trans material in the world.” “The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria is...
by kitchensisters | Nov 22, 2018 | The Keepers
The Keeper of the Day is all who have been facing the fires, keeping others safe. And all who have lost loved ones and their homes. The Keeper of the Day is all those who have been feeding and tending their wounded communities, opening their homes and parking lots and...
by kitchensisters | Nov 21, 2018 | The Keepers
Robert Weiner wrote to make sure we included Oddball Films for Keeper of the Day: “Despite the untimely death of Stephen Parr, the Oddball Films archive lives on. It’s a treasury of weird delights.”
by kitchensisters | Nov 20, 2018 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay No. 26 – The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. “Providing a network of support for Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums.”
by kitchensisters | Nov 19, 2018 | The Keepers
This bookmobile was wheeled around Los Angeles hospitals in 1928, a service of the LA Public Library. Via Library Shenanigans and Boing Boing.
by kitchensisters | Nov 16, 2018 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay No. 24 – Louis Armstrong House Museum “Step inside the mind of one of America’s great virtuosos, thanks to a vast archive of his personal writings, home recordings and artistic collages.” -New York Times, 11/16/18
by kitchensisters | Nov 15, 2018 | The Keepers
Claudia Ocello from Museum Partners Consulting wrote to tell us about a woman on a mission to preserve school history. Marion Bolden, former Superintendent of Newark Public Schools, (NJ) upon retirement founded the Newark Public Schools Historical Preservation...
by kitchensisters | Nov 14, 2018 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Museum of Material Memory “The Museum of Material Memory is a digital repository of material culture of the Indian subcontinent, tracing family history and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and objects of antiquity....
by kitchensisters | Nov 13, 2018 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Emily Dickinson’s Hidden Kitchen Deep in the hidden archives of Harvard’s Houghton Library are the butter-stained recipes of Emily Dickinson. Who knew? Emily Dickinson was better known as a baker than a poet in her lifetime. In the latest...
