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Inheriting a Collection: An Interview with Cape Girardeau County Archive Center Director, Marybeth Niederkorn

It’s one thing to take care of a collection that you’ve built or cared for from the beginning, but coming into a long-established collection can be overwhelming. Where do you even start assessing what could be thousands of documents spanning multiple topics? How do you determine what is top priority for preservation and digitization efforts and what needs to wait? How do you improve and expand the functionality of a collection that’s been in use for decades? These are the kin…

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2021-05-07 22:41:00
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3 Ways to Make Your Historical Archive Impactful Today

In leisure time alone, the average human processes at least 34 gigabytes of information daily. On the internet, this looks like their newsfeed, the endless scroll of what friends and acquaintances are doing at any given moment, and the 24-hour news cycle. Even if a user is searching for something specific, they’re bound to be distracted because the Internet is built to monetize our attention. Only the shiniest, most intriguing, emotion-laden ads, sites, and headlines get the spo…

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2021-05-07 22:36:00
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Deciphering Your History: An Interview with German-English Genealogy Translator Katherine Schober

Many people are spending more time at home these days, which means they may also be rediscovering family heirlooms and artifacts. Others may be looking into their family’s history for the first time. Brushing dust off the boxes in the attic and seeing old photo albums and letters from an ancestor’s past can spark an enthusiasm for family history that lasts a lifetime. But simply having all the clues in front of you doesn’t mean it’s easy to piece together your family hi…

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2020-03-27 18:02:00
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