I’m not much of a cocktail party person (I prefer Netflix in my PJs), but occasionally, I manage to drag myself out of the house in the evening for some light socializing. If you’ve ever been to any sort of party, you know that the one question you can always anticipate is “what do you […]
You can read Part I of Season 2 here. And we’re back! Kelsey Kim, C-SPAN Project Archivist here, ready to introduce you to the next phase of C-SPAN Records digitization. A summary of the ground we’ve already covered: Digitization is not just a lone person in a dark room scanning documents all day, every day […]
Welcome back to the C-SPAN Chronicles! I am your host, Kelsey Kim, the newest addition to SCRC, and the new C-SPAN Project Archivist. Hopefully our return hasn’t set your head spinning. Amanda Brent, processor extraordinaire, walked you through the lengthy course of processing all of the hundreds of boxes of C-SPAN material in 2017. I […]
Hello all! Amanda here with another – and sadly the last – of the C-SPAN Chronicles. I thought it would be fun (and informative!) to reflect on the lessons I’ve learned undertaking and completing the processing portion of this project. It has been quite the journey, and since I began processing the C-SPAN records in […]
Hello all! Amanda here with another edition of the C-SPAN Chronicles. This week I will be discussing the challenges of processing audiovisual materials in archival collections, and the specific challenges I have encountered when processing them in the C-SPAN papers. Let’s go! Imagine you open a box. Inside are various analog audiovisual materials – from […]
