On June 19 former George Mason University president Dr. Ángel Cabrera sat down with Special Collections Research Center staff to record his recollections of seven years of service to the university. During the fifty-six minute interview Dr. Cabrera detailed how he was recruited, his initial interviews for the position of President of George Mason University, […]
This year only two members of SCRC were able to attend the SAA Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas. This meeting in particular was a fiery one to say the least. Without further ado, here are our Director’s impressions of the 2019 Annual Meeting! Lynn Eaton – Director From August 1 – August 6, archivists from […]
This post was written by Tavia Wager, Research Services Assistant. The George Mason University Special Collections Research Center is lucky enough to have two collections of brass rubbings, one donated by Vida Beaven, and the other by Bernard Brenner. This collection gives researchers the invaluable opportunity to study material culture, images of identity, and practices […]
This post was written by Brandan Culbert. Being an archivist is fun… if you like to read other people’s mail. As an archival assistant, my role consists of reading letters and inputting corresponding information– it sounds mundane but is rather exciting. The current letters I am working on is C-SPAN’s viewer fan mail. If you […]
This post was written by Teo Rogers, Digitization Student Assistant for the C-SPAN records Digitization Project. “…for when you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886 When Nietzsche penned this famous aphorism, he probably didn’t have viewer mail to C-SPAN in […]
