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 […]
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 […]
Special Collections Research Center holds a variety of early photography collections, one of the most interesting being the Christine Drennon European lantern slide collection. This collection consists entirely of glass lantern slides, an early method of showcasing photography. Glass lantern slides are unique and curious objects, and are quite singular, as they predate even the […]
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 […]
